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Well if they are using that method it’s only going to work as a refinement technique on existing or new traditional models. At the end of the day they can only tackle difficult tasks using knowledge they have vacuumed up by their (often from dubious sources) large datasets. This reinforcement training still won’t produce innovation. It will most likely just specialize the models, possibly to work better for specific tasks while requiring less memory or other resources. A good thing for sure, but it still doesn’t mirror innovation.

Now, I’m going to be honest. On one hand, I realise if we got AGI the best case scenario is most of us would have ended up with no jobs, the rich would get richer until we’d have a violent, bloody revolution and have AI design us a more efficient guillotine (for any future legal trouble, it’s important to note this was a hypothetical based on us achieving AGI, we didn’t so you cannot legally constitute this as a threat, call to action or plan to commit a crime).

Nonetheless I did kinda hope that with the huge investment the tech bros got for AI, that they would spend it going down the avenue of trying to achieve AGI, rather than just buying all the GPUs and making more expensive models where we’d already know there was a diminishing return before they did it! Yeah it might go full skynet on us, well apparently current models are perfectly capable of going skynet on us if we let them near our nukes. But, still this would have a chance to just bypass us and do it anyway. But if it didn’t, such issues of innovation might have been solved.

As it is, they squandered the money and here we are now. Which I suppose is still a good thing, in a weird way.

Anyway I’ve gone off path, but I’ll leave it all there. My main point is, what we have is ultimately a dead-end failing some great discovery. It should be used as a tool to assist skilled writers, artists, programmers and anyone else. Not to replace them, but to augment them. Oh and it wouldn’t go amiss to not take all the returns to the top, maybe the little guy could get a tiny tiny piece of the pie for a change.

The main issue is. If companies enforce AI use (and many do), and/or they stop recruiting junior developers (a lot have), then we’re going down a road where soon (for values of soon) we just won’t have people with the skills to evaluate what they produce.

Worse than that, they can only improve if we provide the input for them to use to improve. Any future models are going to be consuming a mixture of human work, human curated AI work and AI slop, ever skewing towards the latter. I am not convinced the way these models work, they are able to tell the difference.

We might well have the best models we’ll ever have, right now.

There’s a huge difference between “It makes things a lot easier/better” and “Coding is impossible without it”… One of them you can argue is true. The other is an outright lie, and even he knows it.

Umm. Just no. A lot of what I do at work, AI can help only in minimal ways. I know this because some people insist on using it, and I’m always seeing their trash PRs. Because it’s just no good with such specific stuff where it can really only try to find generic solutions.

While I think the visual studio and similar auto completion stuff to be awesome stuff. The internal tooling we have to write code doesn’t have this and guess what, we’re doing fine.

But then I don’t work in a game studio. I cannot say how it is in that industry.

Is it convenient for a lot of things? Sure it is. But, you know I try to avoid it for my own personal stuff, just so I keep the brain cells that are there for software development, active and able to do it unassisted.

Apparently, I shouldn’t be using Proxmox because “it’s only for labs.”

Corporates (and other larger orgs) are funny in this regard. In some ways they are very conservative and slow moving, and will resist other technology even if it’s clearly better.

Then, a buzzword becomes popular and “we’re a <buzzword> first company!” and you MUST be doing <buzzword>. Then that buzzword becomes forgotten, and with zero mention at all to anyone. Everyone just agrees. We’re no longer an anything first company.

The magic roundabout hits a little different now. (If you know, you know).

I would put some money on it either being.

1: Some senior bod didn’t like that they had to learn where one new button was, and threw their toys out of the pram. 2: The macros thing you mentioned. So many of these were done back in the day, VBA code that no-one knew about until they tried to open the sheet in another office package and it exploded.

Good on them I say. I wish people were the focus of government more.

Well I meant also hobbyist server operators are just going to run those things, and get it done. Server farm operators definitely need automation, yes.

Well this was more or less my point. I said there’s nothing WE can do. The reason being, in the USA a minuscule number of people vote for people not affiliated with the main two parties, and it’s much the same in the UK (albeit with the split of the right recently among two/three parties). People vote one of two ways. It’s the same over and over across western countries. Outside of that, there’s often direct bribery options available anyway.

You could run on providing pure utopia in most places in the west and no-one would even hear you. Because no-one is going to fund a genuine politician. Without funding, you’re not even an also-ran.

No, the paid stooges always win. They will ensure their corporate paymasters are well looked after once they get into power. This is just the way of things. It will take a revolution to fix it, and historically they don’t go so well in the long term either. But, frankly there’s only so far we can go down this road before that happens.

There’s not enough people that can see this going on and having a will to stop it. More than that, there’s just too many stupid people that worked out how to vote. The proof of this, is the absolute lowest common denominator US president right now.

Corporates are a law unto themselves. It’s not a new idea, look at the original robocop movie, and indeed any 1980s dystopian movie. They’re stories about how corporations got too much power and the world went to shit. We’re just seeing the realisation of what those movies foretold.

Ah I mean apt update / apt upgrade is likely to upgrade other stuff too. So often I’ll reboot the whole server too. Depends on what else gets upgraded of course.

Don’t worry. Everyone is just doing

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo shutdown -r now

Job done.

Oh and if you want to check your work.

r00ty@r00ted ~ $ php -v
PHP x.x.x (cli) (built: Oct 21 2026 xx:xx:xx)

Job definitely done.

Sure. Now tell me how often that happens? I never said a government couldn’t stop it. I made it clear that these companies have the governments in their pockets. The government could stop it, but they won’t. They like the money these corporations give them, far more than they like us.

That’s because big businesses are hugely protected in multiple ways.

First of all, if you or even your government opens a case against them, they will have large and talented legal teams capable of shutting down or at the very least delaying indefinitely most cases against them. Second of all, they are usually huge lobbyists for all major parties in most countries they operate in. That is, they are effectively able to buy access to legislation and protection against them. But third, and the final protection is that even if a case is opened against them, even if it has criminal ramifications with jail time, they will use one of the following to ensure those at the top stay safe. 1: You cannot prosecute a company beyond fines. Fines to a rich company just become a new line in their COGS report. 2: If they are pushed to find someone to prosecute, they will find some operational level sacrificial lamb to throw under the bus. “The buck stops here” doesn’t mean at the top. It means at anyone they can sucker into taking the fall.

So, why should they care? What can any of us do about it?

I’m glad I use good ol’ 12345!

There’s plenty of guides out there for qemu. For later versions of macos you need to add some virtual hardware that says “Hi I’m a mac” to macos. Just Apple things.

Yep I’m hearing a lot about this and there’s a few Lora nodes on it in my area. So am considering looking into it.