utopiah

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[–] utopiah 1 points 4 days ago

Hey... hey there, I'd let you know that there are 340M Americans and 8.2B people in the World so... that's like 4% OK... it's... definitely "most people" because we are number 1 OK! USA, USA... /s

[–] utopiah 4 points 4 days ago

ESG in the name

Place to start but once you dig into it, it's not great either. A lot of the evaluations basically boil down to negative externalities, namely making sure that somehow whatever is problematic is NOT accounted for. That's how plenty of ESGs end up with ... other banks as stocks. They "abstracted themselves away" from problems whereas in reality they are funding the problems.

[–] utopiah 2 points 4 days ago

The post didn’t ask for ethical requirements to be included in the advice.

Right... everything does have ethical requirements though. As soon as a member of a society does make something that impacts themselves and others it has ethical requirements. Some examples :

  • voting (obviously)
  • buying a Xmas (avoiding slave labor)
  • selecting toilet paper (limiting pollution)
  • buying a coffee (fair trade)
  • paying an electricity bill (source of the energy)
  • posting on Lemmy (avoiding centralization)

Everything, literally everything we do, has ethical requirements. We don't have to say it because it's implied.

Now... if you are genuinely curious about the topic I can only recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_in_mathematics showing that even in the most abstract field, there are ALSO ethical requirements. Nobody can avoid that.

[–] utopiah 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, we are nowhere close to learning as the human brain does. We don’t even really understand how it does at all.

Sorry then if I sound like a broken record but again, doesn't that mean that the analogy itself is flawed? If the goal remain the same but there is close to no explanatory power, even if we do get pragmatically useful result (i.e. it "works" in some useful cases) it's basically "just" inspiration, which is nice but is basically branding more than anything else.

[–] utopiah 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It is conceptually the same thing. [...] The learning the part is not even close.

Well... isn't the "learning part" precisely the point? I don't think anybody is excited about brains as "just" a computational device, rather the primary function of a brain is ... learning.

[–] utopiah 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

the consumer variants have not seen revolutionairy improvements over the past years

They probably haven't tried a Quest 3 (overall trade off) or a Vision Pro (resolution and eye tracking, arguably not for consumers though based on the price... but compared to gaming PC + VR kit few years ago I'd say it is comparable) because even though IMHO the biggest revolution has been going from 3DoF to 6DoF recently, just the improvements (resolution, inside-out tracking, hand tracking, BT support with a ton of peripherals, etc) is actually providing an experience different enough that people who had doubt few years ago, say on a Valve Index, are reconsidering "just" based on form factor and thus convenience.

[–] utopiah 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

At some point it becomes so “simplified” it’s arguably just not the same thing, even conceptually.

[–] utopiah 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I work in VR and AR. I traveled to a conference this week to showcase demos of my work.

I have in my backpack a headset that’s costing few hundred bucks and can spawn in front if your eyes 3D models you can directly manipulate with your hands or a pen.

It just works.

I even use it offline while flying.

This didn’t exist 10years ago. It’s amazing.

[–] utopiah 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] utopiah 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Firefox

You mean you self-host your profile?

[–] utopiah 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I... have had an NVIDIA 2080ti since they are sold (so.. about 6 years?) and use it daily, gaming, using it for selfhosting AI a bit with CUDA and... just works, from gaming to tinkering. I don't get those comments. Sorry you had such a bad experience, it's not mine.

[–] utopiah 5 points 1 month ago

(insert here the "The TikTok at home" meme format) So actually I did my own with PeerTube (self hosted server side) and Latrix (mobile client to live stream) and you can see the result at https://video.benetou.fr/w/p/hfPcHz1kCgnM6zKhfPrS4b (playlist of 6 short videos with progress over time).

I'd argue it... works. Is it necessary or useful? Well I didn't keep up with the format but it potentially can be. My point being... we already have quite a few tools in place.

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