Thx, okay I didn’t get it but makes sense. Yeah it’s really stupid to “reinvent” everything and offhandedly brush away the things that have been written in blood during previous decades… I mean it’s kind of obvious that a safety mechanism needs to be fast and easy to operate. Making someone disassemble a door while on fire and blind from the thick smoke might not be the best idea. And you’d need to perform some safety dance each time before boarding a Tesla or people/passengers won’t know the strange procedures.

False: “All but two lifeboats were situated on the Boat Deck, the highest deck of Titanic.”

“Titanic only had enough lifeboats to accommodate approximately a third of the ship’s total capacity.”

“Compounding the disaster, Titanic’s crew was poorly trained on using the davits (lifeboat launching equipment). As a result, lifeboat launches were slow, improperly executed, and poorly supervised. These factors contributed to several lifeboats leaving with only half their capacity.”

But seems they launched 18 out of 20 available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboats_of_the_Titanic

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So they just added a few buttons?

To add a bit more background:

We already had two major AI winters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

More related articles:

• Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns: The cost of improvement is becoming unsustainable (from 2021)
• Paper: Will we run out of data? Limits of LLM scaling based on human-generated data
• Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?

My opinion: We’re facing a lot of issues, energy, training data is finite, it might be likely that the current architecture of AI models will hit a ceiling. We already pump in lots of compute for ever diminishing returns. I’m pretty sure that approach won’t scale towards AGI. Like outlined in the article.

But it doesn’t need to keep growing exponentially to be useful. AI is hyped to no end. And it’s a real revenue driver for companies. I’d say the bubble is over-inflated. Some people are bound to get disappointed. And in my eyes it’s very likely that it won’t keep growing at the current pace of the last two years. And ultimately we’d need to come up with some new inventions if we want AGI. As far as I know that’s still utter sci-fi. Nobody knows how to revolutionize AI so it’ll suddenly become 100x more intelligent. And it’s unlikely that our current approach will get us there. But on the other hand no-one ruled out there is a possibility to do it with a more clever approach. I’d lower my expectations. There has been a lot of hype and unfounded claims. Things take their time. And the normal way things go is gradual improvement. But it’s not a “grim” perspective either (like the author put it).

And I agree there is still “quite a bit of growth” left in the AI market. Especially once we get more hardware than just the latest Nvidia graphics card, it’ll maybe make things more affordable and more adopted.

[…] a trend that we are seeing in that marketplace towards smaller models as the large foundation models are becoming quite expensive to build, train, and iterate on […]

I think that’s a good thing. Ultimately this is about making things more efficient. Any maybe realizing you don’t need the same big model for every task. It surely democratizes things and allows people with consumer priced hardware to participate in AI.

Though a few peoples freedoms have been taken away, like women. And you got a lot stupider on average. And he cut the taxes of the rich while millions lost health insurance and national debt increased. So it’s not particularly great eiher.

Use that learning opportunity for your future. That’s the main thing. And maybe a change of scenery won’t hurt. I doubt you’ll reconcile with your manager and coworkers, so you might as well take the other job offer, if it’s alright.

Hmmh, that’s usually postponed until after a war is over. At least to gather the exact numbers. But the other side isn’t going to conceal it. They’re going to brag about it. So we’ll know anyways.

Don’t worry about that. We pay a few of our own journalists to live in the US and report the news. I occasionally read or watch both the European and unfiltered American reporting and they’re not alike. I think we still get a picture resembling something close to the truth. At least generally speaking.

Rule 2.

But sure, we can do that. It’s not particularly difficult to find news from the US in other parts of the world.

Probably drank from the Kool-Aid during Covid times.

If it’s a good escape plan you might help someone. I mean as long as it doesn’t require concealment to succeed. And I guess a lot of plans like “find a job abroad” don’t really need to be kept secret.

Probably everything you can being to the table. That can be very different things, depending on the person. I’d say a good first step is to organize and gather people. And then you can brainstorm within the group. See what resources you have available and where they’d fit and yield the most return. Yeah, and maybe don’t do what people did until now. That already failed. So try something new.

They’re the political opposition now. They should do what good opposition work includes. Hold the government accountable, force them to deliver results. Make the people pay attention and realize if their bills become less or more expensive. And I’d say re-consider life-choices. And make some fundamental changes. Maybe start a new political party if the Democrats are beyond hope.

I think the word for workers self-organizing and advocating for their cause is… Union(izing).

I mean there might be some other connotation to the word in US politics. But I think that’s pretty much the definition of the term.

Fair enough. I always hope we’ll move towards a better future… And not backwards. But you’re right. You pick some random time in history and then make up some policies that supposedly get you back to that place. And an additional psychological factor is, most of us had our best time when we were young, life was easier, less work and less consequence. So we might want that back instead of our current, more complex life.

Though this isn’t about conservatism, is it? Trump doesn’t like democracy and half of the things that shaped the USA. I mean there is some overlap but he should be opposed by any sane conservative. I think it’s more a dip towards fascism or something else.

Yeah, I wonder if that would fly with the users. I just scrolled through my timeline and nearly every post has some colorful image to it. (except in Ask Lemmy and No Stupid Questions.) I’m not sure if users would accept this platform if it were mostly textual. And putting restrictions in place would certainly reduce the number of images. Scrolling through Lemmy would feel like Hackernews, not any modern social media platform. I doubt mainstream people appreciate that.

But yeah, that’d be possible. We could just close the meme communities for example. Or exclude them from individual instances to save some space there.

A lot of pictures and memes get posted here. And every other post shows a thumbnail picture. These images are all files.

I think most architecture design decisions are made by the developers of the fediverse projects. If the 3 Lemmy devs or the Mastodon maintainers agreed to do it… (And it’s technically feasible.) I suppose it could be done.

I mean as long as it works seemlessly and doesn’t violate ActivityPub, we don’t really need a consensus of all the users and admins. We just need the server admins to install the next update.