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This is so bitterly disappointing, can one billionaire not turn into a complete fucktard please :(

I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.

For me:

I go into giant warehouse size of small city

find what i want, price is decent

i go through self checkout and leave

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everytime I've been has been fine? except when I look for a small widget that has 10 in stock on the website but there's none on the shelf because scumbags have stolen them all but 99% of the time it's fine

Some crazy footage coming out, just such a massive explosion as the plane had just taken off and was full of fuel:

Dash Cam footage captures a huge explosion caused by the jet

https://streamable.com/16d29r

Another doorbell cam from Philadelphia

https://streamable.com/19bvwn

Small plane crashes in Philadelphia, caught on camera

https://streamable.com/jrli1l

Aftermath of a small plane crashing in Philadelphia this evening

https://streamable.com/15v3r2

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hey i’m running on solar and battery so no waste of electricity here ;)

but yeah that was it, i just noticed how here and on mastodon i read ‘ai is a scam’ and then turn my head and read ‘ai will take all our jobs’, makes for a nice whiplash effect

also it’s 4am here i’m going to sleep, appreciate the chat

Stock market chaos as China reveals secret snake oil refinery, threatening US snake oil monopoly.

https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/113901910776808096

Snake oil yesterday, magic beans today.

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67977967

Going to hit 40% of jobs in 5 years the next

Is it magic beans and snake oil, eg. a scam or is it a legit threat, you can't have both

we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

“It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs

You can absolutely leave and fund a “good” company, good luck getting anywhere.

If the product has value then people will buy it*

Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can't get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people

This isn't a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you

*I assume the products would have little logos on them like "non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!" etc

But cars have always had value, we're talking under an article that calls AI "magic beans"

How could magic beans which produce garbage enslave humanity under capitalism? Would you argue that cars which replaced horses as the primary mode of transport in a few years be called this?

You can argue that AI does some things badly, it's still very very early on and the progress people are making is insane, like nothing I've seen before, but you can't argue it is worthless and a giant threat to us at the same time, this is contradictory

That can't be possible, if they fire all their workers and produce AI slop then we will simply start a new company with human workers that doesn't.

This isn't communism we can simply start a new business at any time for any reason, with or without AI

companies are getting ahead of themselves about the opportunity to fire human employees

But then if they produce garbage with AI people will buy the non-garbage product

Either it produces something of value or it doesn't, if it's producing garbage, lowering output, etc then it's not a threat to our jobs because most people don't like garbage, if it's producing genuine value then it will be.

i have noticed that there are two competing narratives in the leftwingosphere:

A) ai is 100% slop garbage and a giant waste of electricity, pumping out garbage images with multiple hands and the text is nothing but hallucinations that can’t even count the number of r’s in “strawberry”

and at the same time

B) AI is going to take all our jobs and we will all be homeless and poor while tech billionaire CEOs turn us into slaves

few niche uses? it has heaps of uses that aren’t niche at all

https://aussie.zone/post/16417192/14017352

perplexity.ai is a better search engine than any current ones and that’s about as mainstream a use as you can get

Unrelated to the convo but for those who'd like a visual on how LLM's work: https://bbycroft.net/llm

That’s a lot of processing just to count letters

feel free to ask Google/Bing/Your favourite search engine to do the same :P

but we had the same thing with Alpaca, Llama2, Llama3, 3.2, Mistral, Phi…

I don't believe so, or at least, them all getting smaller and/or more intelligent isn't the point, it's how they did it

I noted above that if DeepSeek had access to H100s they probably would have used a larger cluster to train their model, simply because that would have been the easier option; the fact they didn’t, and were bandwidth constrained, drove a lot of their decisions in terms of both model architecture and their training infrastructure. Just look at the U.S. labs: they haven’t spent much time on optimization because Nvidia has been aggressively shipping ever more capable systems that accommodate their needs. The route of least resistance has simply been to pay Nvidia. DeepSeek, however, just demonstrated that another route is available: heavy optimization can produce remarkable results on weaker hardware and with lower memory bandwidth; simply paying Nvidia more isn’t the only way to make better models.

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

All that text to say not much? He doesn't like that we want companies to pay tax

Fair enough, there's no need to postulate what he might do when he's just a moments notice away from threatening ... literally anything, who knows what the crazy monkey will do or say at any time

they are building a plant in Arizona, but i doubt it'll ever be as good as Taiwan can do, not just because Taiwan has the skills but if Taiwan doesn't have this then what's the point of protecting it? It's sort of a way to say, if you want to to continue to access the best chips in the world you should protect us from China

Hard to tell at this stage but models may get a hell of a lot bigger if the hardware required to train them is much smaller or it may plateau for a while while everyone else works on training their stuff using significantly less power and hardware