Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Thanks for trying to explain but I honestly just left more confused.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 23 points 4 hours ago

It's in the post. They wanted immutability:

"Unraid has always been a so-called immutable OS— however you modify your server, if you go in there, you type the wrong command, you delete all the files from your root, you still could just reboot and you're back to the virgin release… and that's a big reason why we've chosen Fedora [uCore]."

— Tom Mortensen, creator of Unraid

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Man, every time I ask someone what makes LLMs useful I get weird rambling defensiveness.

I don't understand how "automated production of websites that can fool you into believing a person made them" is helpful or interesting or valuable to anyone but propogandists and scammers.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago

Not running on a Pi yet, any spying would depend on the distro. There's no dedicated Bigscreen distro yet but I'm pretty sure it's being worked on.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

That's true even the premium brands won't halfway decent CPUs in them to keep the giant bloated menus from stuttering.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There's no best answer right now, Plasma Bigscreen is making good progress.

I have to imagine they'll soon be putting cellular antennas in the TVs to circumvent all that anyway.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I could never get those Android TV builds to work with CEC which kind of defeats the purpose for me. I'll try it out with the next update. Librelec had no issues.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I couldn't find a working YouTube app on Kodi, nor any of the streaming sites (besides Disney plus oddly) nor Plex. It kinda felt like a real debrid frontend and graveyard of plugins.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

LOL ok you got me I specifically tried to avoid saying that. I meant real intelligence. I'll edit my comment.

EDIT: And by "real intelligence" I'm speaking of beings which display traits like curiosity and creativity.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The investment speculation angle really does feel like crypto 2.0. Blockchain tech has some interesting, though niche right now, uses.

I'm with Ed I absolutely don't think LLMs are worthless but anyone who thinks a critical mass of real people want to pay real dollars for slop are living a fantasy.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I think you're misunderstanding my question, I'm not saying LLMs can't spit out a website so perfectly convincing that it would be impossible to discern from a human made website.

I'm asking what makes speeding up the creation of such "slop-sites" useful or desirable to anyone?

EDIT: Maybe you could sell me on why automating undergraduate work is something interesting or helpful?

 

Another article for free (but seriously subscribe to 404 they do great work) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai

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I know this isn't wallstreetbets but I can't help but wonder if this is a more secure investment than the usual S&P500.

 

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

Personally I think this is a good response. I hope they stay true to it in the future.

 

Inspired by a recent talk from Richard Stallman.

From Slashdot:

Speaking about AI, Stallman warned that "nowadays, people often use the term artificial intelligence for things that aren't intelligent at all..." He makes a point of calling large language models "generators" because "They generate text and they don't understand really what that text means." (And they also make mistakes "without batting a virtual eyelash. So you can't trust anything that they generate.") Stallman says "Every time you call them AI, you are endorsing the claim that they are intelligent and they're not. So let's let's refuse to do that."

Sometimes I think that even though we are in a "FuckAI" community, we're still helping the "AI" companies by tacitly agreeing that their LLMs and image generators are in fact "AI" when they're not. It's similar to how the people saying "AI will destroy humanity" give an outsized aura to LLMs that they don't deserve.

Personally I like the term "generators" and will make an effort to use it, but I'm curious to hear everyone else's thoughts.

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