I realized that AIs will need to keep us around much like we keep around an old DOS box running a specific program. There are so many analogue outputs in the real world that they still will not be able to take in as well as humans can.

We are the just-in-case USB 1.44mb floppy disk drive sitting in the bottom drawer of some neckbeard’s desk.

They also suck in environments with high em radiation like space. They're quite vulnerable.

Did they purchase the books legally? Is their plan to destroy every copy of every book ever, and if it were, would that even be possible?

This is an amazing looking website, I like it a lot.

I ate Kiwis for years before someone told me most people DO NOT eat the skins. I looked at my bag of kiwis, and the even the damn monkey mascot was holding a spoon...mocking me...

Also eating skins turns kiwis from a fruit you have to spend time to preprocess (halve + grab spoon) to an immediate snack.

This may sound insignificant to many but for the extremely lazy like me, this is the difference between going to waste and being consumed for many fruits.

> Also eating skins turns kiwis from a fruit you have to spend time to preprocess (halve + grab spoon) to an immediate snack.

Both of your comments sound foreign to me. In my experience, kiwis are eaten with the fingers, including the skin, but they are prepared by slicing. The form you eat is a collection of circular discs, cross sections of the original fruit.

https://www.foodrepublic.com/img/gallery/kiwi-skin-is-edible...

So a spoon would make no sense - it wouldn't help you even if you were inclined to use one - but there's plenty of processing time involved.

I cut into fourths lengthwise and eat like orange slices. Big time saver.

You can just break them into two roughly equal halves and use your teeth to scoop out the flesh. No need for either a knife, a spoon or any kind of preprocessing. I've been eating them that way for decades.

Half + spoon? What is this sacrilege? Peel with knife like a potato and then eat the whole thing.

Why would you peel potatos? The skin is the best part!

Because you're making mash, and mash with skin inside it is....not quite the same thing.

Almost all mashed potatoes I've ever had that wasn't in a microwave dinner has come with skins inside. Do you always use russet or something?

Well, thank you for editing your post to not ask me if I only like microwave dinners.

I guess maybe it's a cultural thing - I've never seen anyone ever make mash potatoes with skins inside, and mash is a dinner staple here(in fact both here in the UK and Poland where I'm originally from).

I encourage you to try it sometime. They mash up wonderfully with the skins on.

You're right. Mash with skin is much better!

When I wash kiwis I rub the hairs off, and then cut them into thick slices, leaving the skin on. Trying to skin or eat them with a spoon is just a pain, and I don’t find the skin unpleasant.

I’ve seen a lot of people also just wash/rub the hairs off and bite straight into them, though I find this can make a mess if they are too soft.

Hardy kiwis are also eaten whole, like a berry.

yeah, I do this too. minimize the fuzz and the skin itself improves the overall flavor in my opinion.

Don’t worry, my kids eat the skin too. I guess we forgot to tell them not to and they didn’t find it unpleasant. I tried a bite for my own edification and I did not find it pleasant.

That said, I usually eat peanuts with the shell and all. Though don’t eat too many that way, the shells are definitely not getting digested, so chew well. Also there is probably a higher chance of dirt or other stuff you don’t want to eat being on the shell, but I don’t usually eat peanuts anyway so never been a problem for me.

It depends on the variety, some kiwi skins are tick and hairy, while others exteriors are thin and smooth.

Same for me, in about 1 in 10 or so, I’ll pop the shell and all in.

Kiwi fuzz irritates my throat, so I rub a lot of the fuz off, and then use a straight bladed knife to "shave" the rest off. The skin gives a tart contrast to the fruit center. I'm sure there's lots of valuable nutrients in the skin too

Try a different variety. Some don't even really have hair.

The golden ones (as opposed the green variety that are more common in the US) are significantly tastier (at least, universally shared opinion among everyone I forced to try them) and have basically no fuzz/hair.

I'd like to see the the cited source for that statement.. I've always eaten the skins of kiwi fruit. its offers a nice tangy counterpoint to the sweet flesh. Eating it without the skin just sounds boring.

I enjoy the tickly sensation of a fuzzy kiwi but immensely dislike the crunch of croutons. People are weird.

Any skills, I just add into the tool itself. I then have the py tools in their PWD, don’t bother with mcp.

In the US, Business' are treated like people with free speech rights. If it would be cheaper for them in the long run to use ai and robots instead of humans, they will figure out a way to make it so.

Regardless of the imagination quandary, this second, RIGHT NOW is the worst these systems will ever be. They are only going to get better.

I don't know if he's right, but Peter Zeihan thinks the breakdown in globalization will negatively affect the ability to continue to improve the chips that AI depends on[0]. Too many steps in the supply chain, too widespread, too vulnerable to deglobalization.

0: https://zeihan.com/the-ai-race-to-regression/

An invasion of Taiwan would definitely slow progress but it wouldn’t stop it.

We already have sufficient hardware that algorithmic (software) improvements alone should get us to GPT 7 / Greek Reference 6 even if not a single new chip is delivered to an AI data center ever again, starting today.

For sure, and for that reason I mean to say that I wouldn't feel great as a manager/executive/etc either.

Those nuclear powered flying cars envisioned in the 50s were also inevitable progress of the automobile.

> It's not unreasonable that these systems cap out at some point, or perhaps fizzle away entirely.

Yeah, like computers and mobile phones did. Things that have utility, even if not immediate or initially obvious, don't fizzle out.

That's survivor bias to the extreme.

What did fizzle away then and why do you believe AI is more similar to that thing than to computers?

Lots of goddamn awesome computers fizzled out. The Amiga being a prime example. Besides you can't just wave your arms in the most vague terms and then deny that survivor bias was ever a thing.

So your argument is that AI is more lika Amiga than computers? I'd say that Amiga wouldn't fizzle out if it wasn't superceded by pc. It very well may be that transformer architecture is going to be superceded by something like jepa or other world models but it doesn't change much.

Survivor bias is always a thing but it's not everything. All surviving things are not equal and neither are all gone things. If there are such things. Some cls technology never dies. There are new games written for 8-bit Atari today.

For better or for worse, this technology isn't going away any more than search engines, smartphones, or social media have gone away.

These inventions all stopped disrupting the world and just became a part of it. The question is whether LLMs are going to just take their quiet place, or profoundly change (or eliminate) humanity in a self-feeding frenzy towards singularity.

Those technologies reached profitability relatively early, if not immediately.

I've yet to really run mine since I dont have a great solution for the heat -- I hear it pulls 60w straight so it would be mega hot I presume.

Peeling the center fins of the heatsink (takes a few hours of patience with needle nose pliers/medical forceps) and zip-tieing a Arctic P12 Pro (or any other 120mm high static pressure fan) to it works pretty well. Note that you should probably take the heatsink off while doing this to prevent metal shards from shorting out your board (removing the heatsink might necessitate redoing the thermal pads/putty).

Most just 3D print (or buy) a manifold for a standard PC 12v fan.

I assume duct-tape and cardboard would also work if things are dire. =3

best you can hope for is be one of the ones to turn off the lights

Assuming you had a 1:1 scale, what would be the difference between you taking a camera of an environment and measuring everything the same way vs. it being generated artificially in a 3d space?

Wouldn't the inputs be more or less the same wrt training a model with the synthetic data vs live video and the data captured there?