astronaut_sloth

I think that's exactly what the Republicans want.

For real, I really don't understand how Texas isn't being prosecuted for human trafficking.

As with everything else with these types, it's "free speech for me, but not for thee."

Anecdotally, this is exactly it. Talking to my parents is like being in a parallel universe because they think everyone thinks like them and "is just too afraid to say it" or "is being silenced." The mental gymnastics are astounding.

You're not wrong. I remember how Bush, McCain, Romney, Obama, Clinton, and others were called Nazis at different points. While it was never really taken seriously then (as it shouldn't have been), the term has become virtually meaningless. Where the term was reserved for the worst-of-the-worst, for years, it was invoked at the slightest disagreement. Now that there's a literal Nazi-adjacent person running and getting called out for it, it falls flat.

Building a signup wizard to use that information to select a instance would seem to be the best approach.

That's actually not a bad idea. I'm not on board with mining contacts, but I think there's a simple, transparent way to do this that can actually be fun: a personality quiz. Sure, if someone knows what instance to join already, they can override this. But if they don't, they get like five questions, and then they are matched to an instance.

I think what they're saying is that Americans don't pay attention and forgot how terrible the Trump presidency was because it's been a few years. Most people think that "we're better now" and any major issues have abated without understanding that nothing has fundamentally changed. Because of all that, Trump will win the election. The DnD portion of the post is just what got OP to think about this.

Sad thing is that there's merit to the argument. It's the old trope of "Americans have short memories."

Except that scaling alone won't lead to AGI. It may generate better, more convincing text, but the core algorithm is the same. That "special juice" is almost certainly going to come from algorithmic development rather than just throwing more compute at the problem.

Cool, Bill Gates has opinions. I think he's being hasty and speaking out of turn and only partially correct. From my understanding, the "big innovation" of GPT-4 was adding more parameters and scaling up compute. The core algorithms are generally agreed to be mostly the same from earlier versions (not that we know for sure since OpenAI has only released a technical report). Based on that, the real limit on this technology is compute and number of parameters (as boring as that is), and so he's right that the algorithm design may have plateaued. However, we really don't know what will happen if truly monster rigs with tens-of-trillions of parameters are used when trained on the entirety of human written knowledge (morality of that notwithstanding), and that's where he's wrong.

I found myself nodding along to a lot that was said in this article. I also would trace a lot of recent issues to JJ Abrams' take. What I said then is still (I think) true today: "They are good movies, but they aren't good Star Trek movies." Discovery and Picard suffered for it, but I think that the ills are being corrected. My hope is that Paramount greenlights "Legacy" as the TNG-spiritually-successor as SNW is the TOS-spiritual-successor.

Where I will disagree, though, is that Star Trek isn't broken. Five-ish years ago, I would have said that, but after SNW, Lower Decks, and Picard season 3, I think the powers that be have a better understanding of what is needed. We were in a bit of a "dark-ages" from 2006-2020, but I think we're back on the upswing. We may not be quite at 1990s golden age Trek, but we can get close.

I'm all about this. When I made my personal webpage, this is how I do it. I'm surprised it's not more popular (at least for certain things) because it looks nice and clean, is fast, and crucially, is easy to put together. Most webpages don't need a ton of JS to "accomplish the mission." I get that not everything can do this, but there are soooooo many sites that can strip down to a more minimal site and have better functionality and a better experience. This is a case of less-is-more.