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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

oh that does look like a good read

 
 
[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

He does seem to be putting himself out more recently, maybe he's just had enough and feels like these things need to be shouted from the rooftops.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Easing the burden of developing and maintaining open source projects is a definite possibility. I find these tools are already getting pretty decent at a lot of tasks. In particular, they're good at combing through a project and finding spots where you need to make changes when adding a feature. This alone lowers the burden of figuring out how to contribute to a project you're not familiar with. They can also generate code to varying degrees, and that's rapidly improving. The quality of code LLMs produce today is day and night compared to even half a year ago.

Another useful aspect could be helping design courses and education materials. These tools are pretty good at making summaries, and you can use them to build out learning programs. If you understand the subject yourself well, you can ensure that the content is correct, but save a lot of time putting it together and making it polished.

Translation is another great use case. It makes it easy to convert education resources to different languages and for people from around the world to collaborate.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I'm still kind of hopeful that the oligarchs will decide to retrench exploit their domestic populations harder than live the rest of their lives in a bunker.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Wonder if it's the fact that they haven't been at war since the 70s, or had the fastest rise in the standard of living the humanity has ever seen, that China is actively helping Global South develop, or perhaps that it's is the only major nation actually transitioning off fossil fuels in a meaningful way...

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 day ago

Kallas runs around talking shit about USSR and claims that her family was prosecuted during Soviet times.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Barring starting a nuclear holocaust, I really can't see what the west can do at this point to halt China's progress.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's what I was thinking, there's a lot of potential here for building an ecosystem that works completely differently from the current crop of LLMs. This is the kind of stuff we should be exploring on the left instead of just trying to boycott anything AI related in a reactionary fashion.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really do think that people in charge are completely divorced from the material reality we inhabit.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

For sure, the arrogance stems from the fact that they haven't been personally affected in any way, and nobody in their immediate circle has either. In a sense, they inhabit an alternate reality where none of the problems the majority of the population experiences exist. As soon as there's a material impact on their own life style, it becomes impossible to ignore that.

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