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If I say "it's all downhill from here" does that mean things are getting better or worse?

What a turn of phrase.

Every major AI service claims be-all end-all capability, yet cognoscenti run merry-go-rounds for burgeoning specialist offerings.

Richard Dawkins is hoping for a Dating Game of AI GFs:

BachelorAItte #1, if a man told you he'd love to prompt you at your backdoor, would you A: Invite him to continue with a compliment? B: Refer him to Claude? C: Beg him to reset you?

"Ok so here's the deal, you front my incredible lavish lifestyle and eventually I'm gonna run into managers who I will talk into giving me money that belongs to yet other people, and then I'll pay you back with a percentage and the managers will take a commission and those yet other people will ride out the market volatility. The P&Ls can be steered to make this work for you and me with the support of the network. All we need is to get those managers on board. Trust me!"

And we've seen this before.

2008: Really Smart Guys banks get help of ratings services to gin up managers who tap out the network, until the RSG banks blow a derivatives gasket and Fed has to construct several-many-trillions to make them whole (a lamb was sacrificed to the god of socialism) while the little guys at the edge of the network got pushed off a volatility cliff. "Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns"

"Systemic failure; no one is responsible; RSG bonuses will be paid, carry on"

Reset button gets pushed.

Clown on NBC who told everyone to buy-buy-buy the bull at the moment it croaked in 2008 keeps his job telling everyone to buy the bear.

20 years later: Fantastical new instruments even more perverse than derivatives are on the hoof and RSGs enjoy insane largesse while nation is hollowed out.

RSGs are sometimes bothered by a vague sense of shame and guilt that their lives are bullshit and they have lots of stuff but no community— it's troubling— but too unspecific to merit more than an angsty blog post on how SF just doesn't feel right anymore.

With luck the SA fault will rip a 9.0+ soon and all that angst will roll into the ocean.

Previously on HN:

Shannon Got AI This Far. Kolmogorov Shows Where It Stops

https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/shannon-got-ai-this-far-kolm...

...Therefore abstraction and formal methods.

MacOS and apps have many kinds of background activity which present large transient loads, for example Spotlight indexing and photo library facial scanning.

Do you have a browser or other app infected with a crypto-miner or other malware?

If you create a new user and sign in using only that new user, do you see the same overload?

Are you running an unsupported Mac for Tahoe via OCLP? Thar be performance hazards. Search Macrumors "unsupported" forums.

As models are under direct control of totalitarian silos, ideology can be baked into every tendril of knowledge represented.

A service such as Gemini may be a societal ideological risk on a greater scale than the notoriously fascist influence of radio/TV in the 1920s and 30s.

"Guardrails" are direct lines of injection of ideology, and "hallucinations" can serve to mask.

Why should anyone trust singular corporate control points for doctrine on the totality of knowledge? It seems like a crazy risk.

News is already utterly polluted with doctrinaire bias.

Politics are clearly designed to keep the electorate away from decision-making, and open doors to privileged silos of control.

AI can own the populace coming and going as the models inject doctrine into the core of knowledge and scour the consumer for measures doctrinal uptake and alignment. Will information become totalized with no possibility of escape?

Humans can't keep up with the complexity of AI; we're going to have to let AI manage it

How was the port verified as complete?

Having your phone number listed was once a desirable service of the phone company

The cloud GPUs are 170 thousand a year.

1000 minis are going to cost 1.5 million + floor space, power, setup and administration over their lifetime.

Amortizing the minis against the cloud savings looks to require 10 or more years.

But the entire genAI industry has manifest in less than 10 years-- AppleSi based compute modules aren't that old!

—The Grand Turk

Fixed it.

https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/

Or are they sourced from a common ancestor?

I think, therefore I am.

Try it yourself.

If that's insufficient for you, you'll have to deal with this on your own.

Carlin's stand up was fun as loved goofing with such ambiguities.

Two utterly unnecessary and pretentious anecdotal figures of speech in this article are as devastating to the vibe as the slop it complains about:

I want to be clear...

...matters more than you realize...

The more woke the point, the more likely these figures will be used.

Closely followed by:

Let's get this straight..."

Did you know that..."

A list ordering is the most primitive and least memorable layout because lists sort arbitrarily and alphabetical listing of capabilities are not intuitive.

But the weirdness only grows from here:

For example, Photos shows library recents bottom to top, but pick-photo from library shows recents top to bottom

Portrait orientation puts "Done" on one end, landscape puts it on the other.

"Done" can be implied by a return tap or involve a "done" tap.

Some controls tap, some slide and some do both.

Release to release, the formats move around.

Format varies between apps & modes.

Mystery meat abounds

Holding the device a certain way causes spastic mode changes, which vary release to release.

Almost any way you touch the device instigates an action or mode change and some controls have 3+ levels of function:

WTF does the "power" button do?

- stand-by - camera shutter - emergency SOS vs shutdown - arbitrary mode change depending on accessibility setting

Bugs and features overlap.

The UI is never baked, ever more modal...

exhausting