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  • they repeat what i said, did you read them? previously ai model training was entirely based on simply buying more chips as fast and as hard as possible, deepseek changed that

    Yes, and it says exactly what I claimed. DeepSeek is an improvement, but not to the level initially reported. Not even close.

    Youtube uses a fuck ton of power but is an incredibly efficient video delivery service

    What a colossally stupid thing to say. We're not looking at starting up new nuclear reactors to run YouTube.

  • Or Putin dies of natural causes. Which isn't too farfetched. Then the oligarchs find themselves a Deng Xiaoping-like figure who says "ok, all that was bad, let's do something else".

    Probably, Russia will have to face the facts that they can't build their own fighter jets, bombers, tanks, or fighting ships larger than a destroyer anymore. Not on the scale they need. Even if you assume some of the designs they're putting out are good (a big assumption), they can't possibly build them at scale. China is sitting right over there with the factories for those things. Xi Jinping will be happy to take their check, but will make sure it clears first.

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  • why are you linking me to articles i read ages ago?

    Perhaps because you didn't understand what they said.

    You think AI is only useful if it’s taking someones job?

    It's why companies are dumping billions into it.

    If the models were actually getting substantially more efficient, we wouldn't be talking about bringing new nuclear reactors online just to run it.

  • If we look at the common exhibitionist subtype of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) that most people think of when they hear the term narcissist, it is fairly easy to see that they use a simple three-part defense to create a façade of extreme self-confidence. I call this the “GOD defense.”

    G – Grandiosity: They act as if they are special and entitled to do or say whatever they want. Grandiose motto: “I am special.”

    O – Omnipotent: They make all sorts of unrealistic claims about how powerful and knowledgeable they are. Omnipotent motto: “I can do anything, and I know everything worth knowing,”

    D – Devaluing: They feel free to attack and devalue anyone who is not clearly above them in their status hierarchy. Devaluing motto: “You are worthless, defective garbage, and are here to serve me.”

    Yeah, you could just put "Example: Donald Trump" on all three.

  • The biggest population centers of WI are closer to the IL boarder than MN or the UP. But it's better to drive to the UP and load up because IL taxed the shit out of it.

    MN dispensaries are only just getting running outside of native reservations.

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  • The current models depend on massive investment into server farms. They aren't generating profit, and probably can't. When the companies involved realize it's not going to happen, they'll pull it all. That will generate a new AI winter, and in 20 or 30 years, maybe the pieces will be picked up and the field will go through another summer cycle. This sort of boom/bust cycle has happened before in AI.

    And no, self-hosted models aren't going to make up for it. They aren't as powerful, and more importantly, they will never be able to drive mass market adaptation.

  • Every ticket scheme for NFTs fails because of a simple reason: contract law. Venues don't stick with TicketMaster because they like it. TicketMaster's store front doesn't have any magic technology; a room of overcaffinated fresh CS grads could recreate it in a weekend of binge coding.

    Venues stick with TicketMaster because they are contractually obliged to do so. NFTs do not and cannot change that legal reality.

  • It didn't need to be far.

    Artillery range is around 70km. You need to get that close to the southern most road along the coast into Crimea, and a little more for padding some defense. Now you can turn that road and anything on it into rubble whenever you want.

    Ukraine got within a few km of doing that at some areas.

    The Kerch Strait Bridge could be hit whenever by a missile. Ukraine had already hit it by then.

    There's a port at Sevestapol. It's also been hit by Ukranian missiles before, and even if not, it's not enough on its own.

    Airplanes expend lots of fuel for not much cargo. You're not going to supply Crimea that way.

    There would be no logistical options left for Russia. Holding those couple of km more would starve it out. Only question is if Putin tries to hang on out of stubbornness.

  • The 2022 offensive failed because there wasn't enough support. Ukraine was saying they needed X tanks, shells, guns, whatever from the West, and they actually got around X/3. Even with that, they very nearly made it far enough that Crimea would have been logistically cut off. Russia would have either needed to come to terms or else Crimea literally and metaphorically starves.

    There isn't really a way to hide what you're doing. You have to build up forces at your bases, move a lot of material, etc. The timing wasn't going to be a surprise, either, because local seasonal weather changes put a demand on when you do things.

  • Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.

    This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.

    Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.

  • If not for nukes, nobody would give a shit about Russia. Their army has fluctuated between being excellent and being worse than useless for its entire history, and they're currently on a low end of that cycle. As for the Russian navy, the Cold War might have been the only time period where it was worth a damn.

    So no, they're not a superpower. They've been running on nukes and momentum since the dissolution of the USSR.

  • Just to put it in perspective, Wikipedia is currently listing the "before being destroyed" numbers, along with a note of "obsolete source".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_military_aircraft

    Before this attack, their bomber force was:

    • Tu-22M: 56
    • Tu-95: 47
    • Tu-160: 22

    It's apparently the first two that got hit most. 40 total gone is a significant chunk of their whole bomber force, and they ain't going to be able to replace them.