happened with Replika a few years ago. made a number of people suicidal when they “neutered” their AI partners overnight with a model update (ironically, because of pressure because of how unhealthy it is.)
idk, I’m of two minds. it’s sad and unhealthy to have a virtual best friend, but older people are often very lonely and a surrogate is better than nothing.
this is basically Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
the neutrino was estimated to at 220 PeV. goodness!
what’s the difference between a single neural network and multiple neural networks? are BERTs multiple neural networks working together in concert, if you count the encoder and decoder separately? the different layers of a MoE? certainly VLMs count.
I thought the taste bud distribution thing ended up being kinda bad science.
if only all the greentexts were so wholesome as this.
that’s disappointing. I didn’t know about that.
even the experienced ones! do you ever watch Linus Tech Tips? it’s so fun watching them rip up the water-cooling loops after realizing they put it together wrong, or trying and failing at different EFI hacks to get weird prototype cards to work or figure out why their mystery hardware isn’t booting.
I grew up wanting the magical mops from Fantasia.
it’s never bit flips?
it could be a bad RAM chip. we should start Prime95, check for ECC faults…
“oh, you have that song on vinyl? I have it on M66T-xxL.”
whips out a AA battery and a piezo speaker.
the part numbering in the datasheet makes it look like there were dozens of different songs at one point, since they’re numbered like -001, -002, -019, -068. I wonder what their full catalog looked like?
most software engineering isn’t actual computer science, it’s plumbing. and most coding isn’t software engineering, it’s scripting. we overproduced CS majors when we should have taught scripting as part of the curriculum for ME, finance etc.
and even the plumbing should be separated into a different major. it’s like hiring electrical engineers as electricians.
because it worked for millennials! it wasn’t an unfounded expectation. remember Flash? remember how many Flash games were programmed by 12yos? how many websites on Geocities and Angelfire? the 5kr1pt k1dd13z in the hacking scene? it was a golden generation of computer literacy. dev tools were basic tools, we were exposed to foundational technologies while they were new, and the Internet was oriented around producing content rather than consuming it. then came the app era, and the TV-ification of the Internet, and those skills atrophied.
that’s based as fuck. but how do they live without maps?
it’s literally not though. it’s an actual figure from an actual journal article on biohybrid robots.
bruh your username 😭😭 respect.
also, surely flerovium and the other mostly-theoretical elements would be denser, no? at least for a couple microseconds until they yeet some protons and fling themselves apart.
it’s short for Pajeet, which is a somewhat common Indian first name. I associate it with UK racism more than US racism for some reason.
LLMs are trained on human writing, so they’ll always be fundamentally anthropomorphic. you could fine-tune them to sound more clinical, but it’s likely to make them worse at reasoning and planning.
for example, I notice GPT5 uses “I” a lot, especially saying things like “I need to make a choice” or “my suspicion is.” I think that’s actually a side effect of the RL training they’ve done to make it more agentic. having some concept of self is necessary when navigating an environment.
philosophical zombies are no longer a thought experiment.