ClumsyPilot

This is illogical - we ship a live nuclear reactor around the world in a nuclear carrier or icebreaker. But you cannot take it out and put it on a truck

> The idea was that businesses would pay extra for a certificate that guaranteed they were the legitimate brand

I really liked that functionality, it made sense to me

Why is that sounding like hydrogen trains all over again.

Radiation shielding scales poorly in the downwards direction.

> that ITER-like performance can be achieved in university-scale reactors at comercially-viable, lower costs

Are they going to upgrade it or it’s already obsolete before it was even finished?

Well it does - if the business of Amazon is immoral, buying from them is immoral. Therefore piracy becomes the lesser evil.

Preposterous- cavemen had no language but they could reason, think and learn.

A child learns how to eat solid food and how to walk. That a square peg fits into a square hole. This has nothing to do with language.

people who deaf and mute and cannot read can still reason and solve problems.

> It could do _one_ thing a horse could do better: Pull stuff on a straight surface

I would say the doubters were right, and the results are terrible.

We redesigned the world to suit the car, instead of fixing its shortcomings.

Navigating a car centric neighbourhood on foot is anywhere between depressing and dangerous.

I hope the same does not happen with AI. But I expect it will. Maybe in your daily life AI will create legal contracts there are thousands of pages long And you will need AI of your own to summarise them and process them.

> Today a computer read the whole internet, suggested a place to look at

Or imagine this one - computer maps the whole world, suggests a route how to get to any destination?!

You just described a basic search engine.

LLM is kind of a search engine for language

We could have an alternative system where VC don’t need to appease regulators but must place X billion in escrow for compensation of any harm the medicine does to customers.

Regulator is not only there to protect the public, it also protects VC from responsibility

> Google's problem that nobody else has a million cores, wouldn't you agree

On the contrary - their advantage. They know it and they can make outlandish claims that no one will disprove

> Another interpretation would be that as time moves forward and backwards the state of the universe is free to change

What would be the measurable effect of this - would casualty actually be broken? Would we get Dejavu?

> This creates competition for things like pricing plans

If the common carrier is doing all the work, what’s the point of the companies on top? What do they add to the system besides cost?

Might as well get rid of them and have a national carrier.

We need realistic tests - organise a pissup.

here are WhatsApp texts of 10 people arguing about their dietary requirements, here are blurry screenshots of menus from nearest pubs and their prices. But no-one likes that one guy Joe Bogs, choose best place for everyone else and except him, so he doesn’t bother showing up

Don’t forget to declare it an innovation, we have re-invented the way everyone was doing thing anyway!

> Many many layers of that. It’s not a profound mechanism

Bad argument. Cavemen understood stone, but they could not build the aqueducts. Medieval people understood iron, water and fire but they could not make a steam engine

Finally we understand protons, electrons, and neutrons and the forces that government them but it does not mean we understand everything they could mossibly make

> The kind of progress being made leads me to believe there absolutely ARE people who absolutely know how the LLMs work

Just like alchemists made enormous strides in chemistry, but their goal was to turn piss into gold.

Well the artists and writers also want to pay their bills. We threw them under the bus, might as well throw openAI too and get an actual open AI that we can use

> More importantly, no changes over the last few years means that absolutely no one in the company has in-depth and current knowledge of how that code works, so a refactor is pointless because no one knows what the specific problems actually are. reply

That’s is the actual reason you might need to rewrite it. If your critical system is written in an ancient script that nobody can understand, and does no longer supported, and as a security risk, at some point it will simply stop working. And there will be nobody that can fix it.

Yes, rewrite may be painful, but if you can no longer find the people to support the old thing it may be necessary

> what's Apple gonna do otherwise, send all of its users to Duck Duck Go?

I mean, ye

I don't mean at the same time.

For a simple question, with RX 6800, I am observing ~50 tok/s on 8B models Deepseek 16B gives ~40 tok/s. 32B doesn't fit in memory

I think future of inference is on the client side

You can do inference on almost any hardware, I do not see any edge for NVIDIA here

I can download DeepSeek 30b model and run inference at good speed on AMD GPU ms and even on CPU. Apple silicon works fine too. I get >50 tokens/s on £300 AMD GPUs.

The main bottleneck appears to be memory, not processing power.

> Imagine telling an AI agent … requirements… asks for your input on how things should work, clarifying questions etc.

That’s hard work. I watch people do that every day, and always get something wrong.

Also what about deploying the application, paying for database or cloud resource that will run it, etc?

But it’s actually correct from a usability perspective

> The most promising idea is to use reasoning models to generate data, and then train our non-reasoning models with the reasoning-embedded data.

Why is it promising, aren’t you potentially amplifying AI biases and errors?

> management is apparently incapable of managing

That’s frequently the fundamental issue really.

Measuring a developer’s productivity as an IC is fairly easy. Measuring quality of manager’s decisions is tricky

Agreed, if he is damaging enough maybe some folks will finally get the message.

So first there was this ‘corporations are people’ and not we have ‘computers are people’.

So I expect to see that either you are no longer allowed to own computer software

Or a return of slavery.

Also if we find indecent portrayal of minors in a data centre I expect that we treat it as a strict liability crime and the entire data centre or corporation that owns it gets a long prison sentence, just like a human would. However that is suppose to work.

> DRM and cybersecurity are, in the limit, the same thing

Huh? They are the opposite - someone from another country can remotely control my phone/computer/car. Seems like a trojan

They don’t actually, the only British ‘social network’ is OnlyFans and it’s allowed in China.

As for the rest, what is the relevance?

US money influences our politics through shadowy think tanks and pushes it to the right. US-owned water utilities take on loans, use them to pay dividends and drive themselves into bankruptcy.

Being a US ally doesn’t buy us better treatment from US billionaires, they are still predatory vultures.

Nevertheless texas power grid has collapsed, and the government had to get involved