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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I didn’t read the article yet and this is basically what I expected. Hardly a secret, and a fairly good summary. The economy is going to downturn anyway because people just can’t afford the new housing. For a two bedroom anywhere with people, it’s 650,000 and up. At that point you have to be married to someone who also works full time to have any reasonable chance of being able to afford the mortgage. At the average interest rate of 6% you’re paying $4,100 per month, which is about the average pre-tax income (~$54,000 per year, so ~$1038 per week). Of course, that leaves very little wiggle room to save, and if either of you were to lose your jobs or the interest rate goes up, you’d probably default.

    EDIT: I forgot to add the point. It’s this. A whole bunch of people are going to default. People take bad mortgages because they have to, it’s not like its an option to be homeless and sharing a house with strangers can really, really suck. But those people are going to be defaulting, or moving overseas, or just staying at home with their parents. The market will correct itself.



  • I remember Yudowski being a thing like a decade ago, and people were making fun of his “AI” research even then. It’s scary to realize that not only did some people take him seriously, but those people are at the helm of AI companies and making decisions affecting tens of billions of investment capital. I think there was a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that “true horror is waking up one morning and realizing your high school class is running the country”.

    For the other poster lower down, I’d almost successfully forgotten about his Harry Potter fanfiction, people kept praising it so I actually read through a bit of it, it’s painful reading. He also wrote a Superman fanfiction and that’s even worse. I think they both say a lot about his internal mental state and his perception of other people though.



  • I think it comes down to just knowing what is good. When you’re young you don’t have any experience to judge quality by. As you get older you can rapidly assess that something sucks, even if other people are pumping it up. Either in terms of gameplay or plot or whatever, now you have standards. Also, a lot of modern games just don’t respect your time, and as you get older you realize your time is valuable so you just don’t have the patience for that.

    I’m in my 30s, I still game, but I’m a lot quicker to just go “this sucks” and move on to something else.





  • nixOS , because it’s a completely atomic distribution, like a docker container OS style. You define the state of the system in a configuration file, which can even control the kernel, and you can switch to an older configuration file in any reboot. It’s more of a pain than the others, but it works ok out of the box and when you fix something it stays fixed so you’ll never end up in a situation where something breaks and you can’t fix it.

    Also, all the packages bring their own versions of their own libraries and directly link to them so they’ll never break during upgrades, but conversely a lot of Linux installers that try to link to system libraries won’t work.










  • It gets me how every single comment is the same three tired old jokes about AI. Between “It’s only good for imagining up stuff that has no right answer”, “And so the downward spiral begins as LLM’s are trained on the output of previous LLM’s.” and "But somehow it still can’t remember what I said one minute ago " we’ve covered every single anti-LLM talking point.

    For one, it looks like the actual training data hasn’t changed, even if the model has changed and it’s been able to access the internet for a while, this is non-news. For another, a lot of people haven’t tried GPT v4 and are just complaining about the free version sucking, well, things you get for free often suck.

    And so the downward spiral begins as LLM’s are trained on the output of previous LLM’s

    I think we can be fairly confident that the people in charge of training the LLMs have heard this too and are probably on top of it.