According to the Bible, Heaven is a perfect cube 12,000 stadia on a side (approximately 1400 miles). Estimates of the total number of people who have ever lived that I've been able to dig up online are around 100 billion, but all of those estimates involve projecting populations back to 190,000 B.C.E. when in this scenario we know that the population started in 4,004 B.C.E. with exactly two. So 100 billion must be an overestimate, but thanks to the exponential nature of population growth it's probably not a drastic overestimate. Using that figure, each human can have a cubical volume 485 meters on a side. That's quite large, especially given that we're working with an overestimate. You could halve it to account for common social spaces and access corridors and utilities and whatnot and still have an enormous private area for each human.
Not offended. It's more fair than Hitler being in hell, frankly. Assuming a god that's remotely similar to anything humans have typically dreamed up, having an afterlife set up to give infinite torture is insane:
It's impossibly disproportionate (any "sin" is finite).
It's pointless for purposes of reform, it's just sheer bloody-minded vengeance.
It's not even useful as a threat to scare mortals into line since mortals presumably can't take any measurements of the afterlife. Just lie about Hell existing if that's what it's for.
It's being done to "punish" sins that these gods set us up for in the first place. They're responsible for creating us in a manner that's capable of sin and putting us in this universe that allows it.
So I'd be perfectly fine with finding Hitler in heaven. He's not able to hurt anyone any more, that's the important thing.
I regret that the more accurate "Mama Bear Zone" wasn't the term that became popular, instead of naming it after the character who sampled the whole range of temperatures.
Which is funny because that would have been even more inaccurate. "Millions of light years" is off by a factor of 15,000 or more. "Millions of miles" is off by a factor of 400,000,000 or more (2 million miles is 0.00000034 light years).
Yeah, the window of opportunity for that has already started rapidly closing. In 2022 the strategy that worked for launching the AI craze was "throw as much data as you possibly can into the training phase and somehow a functioning LLM comes out." But over 2023 the state of the art advanced a lot and it became apparent that you don't need vast reams of raw data, what's really ideal for producing a good LLM is a smaller amount of high-quality data.
You can still use Reddit data as a source for that, but it needs extensive culling and massaging to make it really good. I can easily see that making Reddit less unique and so less competitive.
What really bothers me is that the original plan for that open source code was to make Reddit federated. They wanted to make it so that other people could run their own Reddit servers for their own communities. Sure, they would have locked it down somehow and tried to make it so that they got paid in the process, but the concept of the Fediverse could have been a common thing over a decade ago already. I'm sure that would have been a far easier walled garden to break out of than the current-day monolithic Reddit is.
Infrastructure, sure. But programming, I don't see it. Reddit doesn't have to be complicated if all you want to do is make it a good link aggregation and threaded discussion site.
But Reddit got greedy, they wanted to be everything to everyone. So they kept trying to add new features to compete with other social media sites. They wanted to be Facebook and Tiktok and Imgur as well, and so they spent huge amounts of resources fiddling with their format and adding stuff like video hosting. Surprise, people already had Facebook and Tiktok and Imgur and weren't interested in something that was second-best at doing those things. So it was a huge amount of costly work that didn't end up earning them much.
This is yet another symptom of the "endless growth" problem faced by lots of modern companies. They can't settle for simply being solidly profitable in their niche. They always need to make their share price go up by getting bigger.
My understanding is that the bottleneck for the GPU is moving data into and out of it, not the processing of the data once it's in there. So if you can get the whole model crammed into VRAM it's still faster even if you have to do some extra work unpacking and repacking it during processing time.
It's been discovered that you can reduce the bits per parameter down to 4 or 5 and still get good results. Just saw a paper this morning describing a technique to get down to 2.5 bits per parameter, even, and apparently it 's fine. We'll see if that works out in practice I guess
Your democracy isn't going to vanish because you've got some overly-strict border controls for a while.
Ukraine can vanish if Russia is able to conquer it. Millions of people can die in gulags, of starvation, or have their children taken away and "reedcuated." It's literally happened to Ukraine before. Russia is explicitly trying to do that to it again right now.
And perhaps that's a sacrifice that's worth making to prevent Ukraine from being genocided by Russia. Your judgment of what is a "low reward" is not necessarily shared by everyone.
The problem is that right now the Democrats are all that the US has. These decisions need to be made right now and the Democrats are the only ones who physically have the ability to get them made in vaguely sane ways.
So maybe you don't like them, maybe you think they're crap, maybe you think they're doing a poor job. But that's still the best you're going to get right now, which is all that really matters for some very important things going on. And so we cheer them on.
It'd be great if next chance the Americans get they swap them out for people who are better, but that chance isn't coming along for a little while yet. And they're stuck with a pretty shitty electorate, too, so that needs to be taken into account.
If he could hurt other people then they wouldn't be in Heaven. Seems like the problem has been resolved, he's completely disarmed now.