Sam Altman is a notorious liar, his job is to get the press to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt, but not in the usual way - aimed at competitors - but his own company. Because uuuh, big scary AI very powerful, very smart, very super, wouldn’t want to be left in the dust, buy now!

The RAM comment he made doesn’t actually help with that though, it just pissed people off because the AI hype has caused prices to shoot up and stay up. It’s the head of a private company sounding incredibly entitled and tone-deaf. So now he tries to backpedal, probably also because there’s real resistance to data center plans.

I think the hype bubble jumped the shark when he announced that he believes that we’re already in the age of AGI. We are so clearly not that you’d think that even the dumbest investor would start asking questions. Maybe they’ll notice that actual researchers are calling him out on his bullshit too. We are still in the “AI sends you to the gas station on foot because gas is expensive” era and won’t be leaving it with the current tech.

I’m not even going to argue with this, nice trolling.

Digital information can be copied indefinitely. Every copy can be perfect, no degradation. It can be searched, have embedded cross-references and sent around the world in seconds. Books suck as a medium in comparison, and that’s just for text.

I dread to find out what the new thing will be that will distract everyone from the actual problems. Brain-computer-interfaces?

Nothing wrong with data centers or information in digital formats, plenty of evil has been done using paper and ink as well. Fetishizing print makes no sense to me as a response to shitty practices.

what personal gain is there to be had?

The satisfaction of being “on the good side” and “sticking it to the man” with righteous outrage, as usual with these things. I fucking hate AI, but trying to tear down Linus (and the rest of the Kernel team) over them trying to see if it makes sense to use is silly. They aren’t planning to drop their rigorous QA or to accept code the submitter can’t explain/maintain. Ethics are a concern, but since the end result will be FOSS I personally don’t care as much either (YMMV).

I’m also really interested in hearing how this will go for them and what policies they will ultimately implement. I expect them to do this properly, which then means that everyone can point to their implementation when confronted with vibe coding at work. And then the suits will decide that they’d rather just do it cheap & fast, fucking everything up yet again, but at least they will have been told so.

I don’t get it either. If you don’t have the skill to do something you can always pay someone. That doesn’t make you the one with the skill though. If they did it for free then you still aren’t the one doing the thing. You’re just an ideas person. That’s not a bad thing but it usually is the easy part of any creative endeavor.

I’d have to ask, they weren’t mine. But part of the problem was that it’s either high latency and no mic or very low quality both ways, neither very usable for video conferencing. Was fine on Windows. I’m sure their Thinkpad’s shitty Mediatek Bluetooth module didn’t help either.

You still will run into issues with certain Bluetooth headphones on Linux because they either need proprietary codecs that just aren’t available or fall back to really shitty ones. Not Linux’ fault, but users will only see (or hear) that it doesn’t work properly.

This coming from someone with what looks like the Chinese flag in their name is… interesting.

I just don’t believe what he’s writing, his whole career is built on lies and the other prison tweets seem like bullshit as well.

It, uh, like, can reserve a table for you in some restaurant? Maybe?

So-called AI partly relies on random outcomes, so no, it might not do what you tell it to do. Which is part of why it sucks so much.

Furry here, we do that stuff. It’s pretty good, can recommend.

Also men used to do that a lot more, before the world wars.

Intensively obsessive fans with no respect for boundaries have existed for a long time, before the Internet. Ask the Beatles or the cast of the original Star Trek series. This is not a new phenomenon, this one just comes with a coat of extra slop.

That’s not going to make anything better though. You’ll just go down a path of addiction and self-destruction. Plus it’s expensive.

No no, these things are getting better in my opinion, in Germany/EU at least!

It’s starting to show its cracks (see Facebook), I’ll count that as getting better.

Older Millennial here, they are right, too bad people my age didn’t get the memo. Never understood, even back in school, why getting plastered is celebrated.

In no particular order, from where I am:

• Linux/FOSS
• Renewable energy
• Crime rates
• Consumer protection laws
• Furry cons
• Vegan & vegetarian products
• The AI bubble (slowly)
• Left-wing parties