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  • Like many here on awful.systems I have a pretty thick skin, but reading the above put me in a really weird mood all day.

    same here. the thing is, I think a lot of us are on awful.systems because we’ve seen far too much of how fascism operates and spreads online. this is an antifascist place; it’s so core to the mission that we don’t publish it as a policy (because a policy can be argued against and twisted and the fash kids love doing that), we just demonstrate it in a way that can’t be ignored. so seeing the first or second (I don’t keep track of these things) most popular social media platform publish a policy whose only purpose is to be used as a weapon against marginalized people, for it to be written in a matter-of-fact “this is just how it is” way, and for essentially nobody outside of the fediverse to push back on it in any real way — that is shocking.








  • guess again

    what the locals are probably taking issue with is:

    If you want a more precise model, you need to make it larger.

    this shit doesn’t get more precise for its advertised purpose when you scale it up. LLMs are garbage technology that plateaued a long time ago and are extremely ill-suited for anything but generating spam; any claims of increased precision (like those that openai makes every time they need more money or attention) are marketing that falls apart the moment you dig deeper — unless you’re the kind of promptfondler who needs LLMs to be good and workable just because it’s technology and because you’re all-in on the grift




  • the worst Nix project has finally been announced: behold crypto NixOS

    I’m starting a paradigm shifting, open and new human / computer interface system that is global, multi device and privacy focused.

    […]

    DISCLAIMER: You are not my exit liquidity, I have the best performing long term spot crypto portfolio in the world - I’m a early adopter with 100% hit rate on geniuses. So, I don’t have to work, I’m not building this to become rich. I want to build something paradigm changing - truly mind-blowing, because now we have the tech and I’m annoyed how computer work. It is a lot of work, but it will reward us all.

    my “this isn’t a grift and I’m not a grifter” disclaimer is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer. but speaking of prompting, what goes with crypto?

    ChatGPT-1o thinks, after some reinforced asking, that the MC of such a coin can reach 300-1000M; I think it could easily go higher - it solves so fundamental problems in a much more elegant way. In my opinion, it will be the same step as the command line to the windowed systems was. Or dump phone to smart phone. It will just span devices and span users while keeping the data under control and of companies.

    of course. after some reinforced asking, gpt told me you’re all haters if you don’t think I’m as important as Xerox PARC!

    there’s lots more in the OP to sneer at, but here’s the worst part of the thread:

    Mod note: I’m glad to see doubt and scepticism about crypto-based claims. However, that point has now been made; please avoid any further posts in that vein to avoid a pile-on dunkfest, and leave the thread for any potential on-topic discussion.

    thanks for nothing as usual NixOS discourse!

    e: via mastodon, archive







  • both those are related to information theory, but there are other things I legally can’t mention. shrug.

    hahahaha fuck off with this. no, the horseshit you’re fetishizing doesn’t fix LLMs. here’s what quantization gets you:

    • the LLM runs on shittier hardware
    • the LLM works worse too
    • that last one’s kinda bad when the technology already works like shit

    anyway speaking of basic information theory:

    but the research showing that 3 bits is as good as 64 is intuitive once you tie the original inspiration for some of the AI designs.

    lol