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That will happen on the day there is enough to go around.

Unfortunately I fear that time has long gone.

As long as the population is growing and/or the (fossil) energy is falling there will never be enough to go around.

I keep reading this, is it meant to be a joke? What is being won?

People are losing their minds at the prospect of oil availability dropping just 20% for a month or two with the closing of the Strait of Hormuz - even just this could collapse the global economy.

So yea, no way is oil stopping or even dipping slightly any time soon.

Just to mention the original was cited in the most recent Veritasium video:

"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

(at about the 9:50 mark)

Economies die from lack of produce though.

I wonder if you could use the same technique (RAM models as ROM) for something like Whisper Speech-to-text, where the models are much smaller (around a Gigabyte) for a super-efficient single-chip speech recognition solution with tons of context knowledge.

I think this lack of 'G' (generality, or modality) is the problem. A human visualizes this kind of problem (a little video plays in my head of taking a car to a car wash). LLM's don't do this, they 'think' only in text, not visually.

A proper AGI would have have to have knowledge in video, image, audio and text domains to work properly.

Has overtaken Saudi Arabia as nation with largest proven oil reserves.

Although it is 'heavy' oil, the 'brown coal' of liquid fossil reserves (i.e. low quality).

The fact that such a fuss is being made about low-grade oil is a concern in itself.

At least HDMI is a 'low frequency' connector, often only ever plugged in once, as opposed to USB (or refueling a car)

I believe this is what "Cargo-Cult Programming" is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

Using 'copy' as a clipboard script tells me OP never lived through the DOS era I guess... Used to drive me mad switching between 'cp' in UNIX and 'copy' in DOS. (Same with the whole slash vs backslash mess.)

I believe this is why all modern digital watches use a 32768.0Hz crystal resonator, it's a power-of-2 frequency above the 20Khz top end of the range of human audio perception, to avoid the whole 'tinnitus on your wrist' thing.

The old 1980s computers also had no equivalent of flash storage though, the RAM had to store the program being run as well as act as scratch-space.

I believe youtube still uses 40 mel-scale vectors as feature data, whisper uses 80 (which provides finer spectral detail but is computationally more intensive to process naturally, but modern hardware allows for that)

that's not true, consumerism is only growing, people are not giving up anything in that regard.

The planet is getting trashed and 'the children' are doomed.

Individually We try and help, driving less, recycling and so on, but it kinda gets diluted by a billion Chinese moving into the middle-class and burning coal like there's no tomorrow.

Reminds me of the Pentium FDIV bug from 1994.... a half-billion-dollar 'ouch' for Intel were many hard lessons were learned.

Surely math libraries and optimizations have been a solved problem for the last 20+ years.

I would disagree. The dark ages were hundreds of years ago, the electric grid is much less than a century old. Plenty of countries have unreliable supply and rolling blackouts and have adapted to it or have just never became accustomed to the luxury of 24/7 electricity on demand. Being without juice is not the end of the world.

Bit ironic when the path to ketosis is fasting (i.e. not using products).

and yet an article about a 'safe' language has code examples full of 'unsafe'... wut.

Surely the point of Rust is 'safety at the price of performance' and if extra performance is required, don't use Rust. Don't bodge the language to accommodate!

Yuck. In my mind, 'using C and not using Rust in the first place' is the escape hatch and Rust shouldn't even go there. Jeez, what a mess.

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought the whole point of Rust was to be a 'safe' modern alternative to C, so all new buffers would be zero'd at a neglible-these-days cost. Why is rust half-assing this?

The AI hardware requirements are currently insane; the models are doing with Megawatts of power and warehouses full of hardware what an average Joe does in 20 Watts and a 'bowl of noodles'.

"This is pretty useless to be honest."

I remember saying that about Bitcoin 15 years ago.

Cool, hopefully before their wide-scale 3G switch-off starting August.

Makes me wonder if the generous copyright protections afforded to artists had not become so abhorrent (thanks, Disney) then this kind of thing might not have happened.

One annoyance with O2 UK is that they don't support VoLTE for legacy pay-as-you-go customers, only pay-monthly. Now I'm actually kind-of glad for that.

The 'value' in them is that they demonstrate that energy is currently so cheap and abundant to Us that we can waste it frivolously.

It's a sort-of flex, showing off, a demonstration of (energy) wealth. Humanities's peacock feathers.

Maybe I didn't explain it well, gold and bitcoin are the 'memory' of used energy, they are not energy sources themselves.

I think of them as representations of the idea that energy is (currently) so abundant and cheap that we can waste it on mining things like gold and crypto, a fundamentally ridiculous concept in terms of real actual human needs.

Once that stops being the case (when fossil fuel starts running out globally), the whole thing - cash, gold, crypto, stocks, bonds, property - everything falls apart.

Strictly speaking, directed energy is the ultimate. Both crypto and gold are both just embodiments of energy, gold being the physical embodiment (via mining and refinement) and crypto being the virtual embodiment.