brucethemoose

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[–] brucethemoose 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

On the other hand, the track record of old social networks is not great.

And it's reasonable to posit Twitter is deep into the enshitifiication cycle.

[–] brucethemoose -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The localllama/local LLM community ridicules AMD basically every single day.

They have the hardware. They have 90% of the software. Then they waste it with absolutely nonsensical business decisions, like they are actively trying to avoid the market.

2 phone calls from Lisa Su (one to OEMs lifting VRAM restriction, another to engineers yelling "someone fix these random bugs with flash attention and torchetune , now,") would absolutely revolutionize the AI space, just to start... and apparently they couldn't care less. It's mind boggling.

[–] brucethemoose 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Beat me to it.

[–] brucethemoose 1 points 2 weeks ago

Still perfectly runnable in kobold.cpp. There was a whole community built up around with Pygmalion.

It is as dumb as dirt though. IMO that is going back too far.

[–] brucethemoose 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

No, because Dems are stuck on a high horse and burned 1 billion campaigning like its the 1950s. Fff, they could have won the election spending a tenth of that on bots and paying off influencers.

We absolutely need money for a shameless 'oppositional' propaganda apparatus.

[–] brucethemoose 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And social media feeds.

How much you wanna bet this guy scrolls facebook a ton? Or listens to railing radio/podcasts on drives? This opinion didn't spawn from a vacuum.

They should be following up and asking him where he got those ideas.

[–] brucethemoose 14 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I know every generation says it, but I really think there was a "peak" generation that grew up on the old web, and learned critical thinking the hard way. The Internet is a lie.

Those that never leave apps and their feeds? Not learning that lesson.

[–] brucethemoose 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

People still run or even continue pretrain llama2 for that reason, as its data is pre-slop.

[–] brucethemoose 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

One good thing that may come of Trump is shaking a lot of complacency out of other countries. Maybe even hurting the far right in them, once the population gets a lot of exposure to full MAGA.

[–] brucethemoose 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The facebook/mastadon format is much better for individuals, no? And Reddit/Lemmy for niches, as long as they're supplemented by a wiki or something.

And Tumblr. The way content gets spread organically, rather than with an algorithm, is actually super nice.

IMO Twitter's original premise, of letting novel, original, but very short thoughts fly into the ether has been so thoroughly corrupted that it can't really come back. It's entertaining and engaging, but an awful format for actually exchanging important information, like discord.

[–] brucethemoose 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is called prompt engineering, and it's been studied objectively and extensively. There are papers where many different personas are benchmarked, or even dynamically created like a genetic algorithm.

You're still limited by the underlying LLM though, especially something so dry and hyper sanitized like OpenAI's API models.

[–] brucethemoose 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

...No. No one is saying that.

Her alignment depends on her depiction though. In the Harley Quinn series, for instance, she's obviously not the bad guy because she's a main character and depicted as a sane, regular person. Classic BTAS, very mixed but rather bad.

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