Supercrunchy

Mainstream news are all negative. If you are struggling to see a light at the end of the tunnel, try to look up newspapers/publications with only positive news. A lot of them don't get reported at all by normal media.

I know it's strange to hear, but while I expect a lot of pain in the short term, I expect things will be better in the longer term (20+ years).

Even in the US, even with trump trying to bring back coal in possible way, revewables are increasing the electricity production share.

Coal (the moat polluting source) has been in strong decline. Even if 2026 might be a setback (and we don't know yet), the long term trend is quite clear. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php

The Hormuz crisis might have also been a good incentive for people to think about buying an electric car or install solar panels (we don't know yet its effect).

Also the world climate does not depend only the US. China is one of the biggest polluters (everything is made there, 1B people), and they are investing heavily in renewables. Europe is already relatively green.

Progress is slow, but progress is being made in the right direction. You have to believe in a future, otherwise it's too tempting to just to give up!

I should publish a blog post titled "Using Antropic's Claude is a Perversion of Writing". If you are taking AI output and thinking it's good and engaging, you are making a load-bearing mistake.

Joking aside, the criticism can come only after they implement it and we can see if it's having any effect on the output quality. I doubt it's going to be detectably worse.

If anybody is feeling so strongly against watermarking even before we can evaluate how it affects the output, I am only thinking that they have ulterior motives or they don't want to be caught spreading copy-pasted slop.

Very interesting! Thanks for the links and the detailed answer!

Let me preface this by saying that I am generally against AI and I hate LLMs being pushed everywhere, but I currently hate facebook and social media even more than AI.

I think that ad blocking might actually be a good use of a model trained to detect ads: AI models are "black boxes" and it would make it difficult for facebook to find out precisely how the detection works and workaround it. Imagine a tiny classifier running locally, whose only job is to look at a post html or resulting rendered pixels and detecting if it's an ad or not, and then generating the blocking rules.

It would be quite cool, because it would work on any website without an explicit list of ad-blocking rules that somebody needs to maintain.

Yes I never trusted it fully, and I would strongly suggest anyone to run it in a VM or at least a container, where it doesn't have access to your credentials, browser cookies and sensitive files. It's very irresponsible otherwise.

Example: around 1 year ago the bot made a small coding mistake and created a '~' folder. I asked it to delete it (not in auto mode) and of course it went with a very nice "rm -rf ~" (which of course I denied).

Modern models are much smarter, but I would not trust the auto classifier to stop everything dangerous and make a similar hallucination slip through.

There's just no way to prevent this

The linked video at the end of the article shows the trail, and it's for sure an expert level trail, full of dangerous sections. The video says the full trail is only 30km long, but they reccommend 2-3 days, it's full of steep sections, cliffs at the side, false trails leading nowhere, unstable terrain, bears... They were lucky they actually didn't get seriously injured.

GTNH suffers from this a lot, especially at the beginning 😅

Thousands of items, you always need to carry around at least 5 different tools because you constantly use them.

Even going mining fills up your inventory with so many types of the same ore (raw copper ore, crushed copper, impure copper dust, copper dust, ... ), not to mention if you decide to go loot a dungeon.

Also you unlock AE2 200h into the game, so good luck with your chests until then!

It's a fun modpack though, I still reccommend to try the 2.9 beta and laugh at the ridiculous crafting trees and how painful everything feels (try to craft a door, good luck!)

(alt: picture of Facebook's mod report form, with "I'm in this photo and I don't like it" selected)

Not to mention the entitlement of saying "But let’s be honest, if you’re reading this you can probably pay for it," Not everybody has disposable income, you know.

I stopped reading there.

The "outside any juristiction" part is probably the main reason here.

Try to seize any evidence from servers that are traveling in space 10000 miles/hour. For now also space weapons are mostly in experimental phase, and I assume would cause a lot of debris in orbit. It makes the thousands of satellites in orbit almost untouchable by any government on earth.

The epstein-class has much to benefit from this.

It might also be playing into the distopyan fantasy of putting a superintelligent AI in earth orbit, so that it becomes unstoppable from earth.

In any case nothing good comes out of this.