Many (American) folks of mine, even more conservative ones, tend to tune out familiar news sources because they’re so bad. Others are really glued to Facebook or whatever their feed of choice is.

TBH I think America (on average) just lives in a stronger information dystopia than Europe. People here don’t connect social security cuts to them, or even know about Trump’s/Musk’s statements on it.

Morale of the story… please ban Facebook, X, really most engagement-driven social media as fast as you can. Or risk turning into… us.

It’s supposed to be immersive, I think, so as not to force a voice that doesn’t match the roleplaying in your head.

I’m with you, though, I’d much prefer VA.

It’s a feature.

I think the (ideal) future looks more like an accelerated Orion’s Arm, where humanity-changing technologies take over.

Again that’s what I’m getting at. We will never be colonizing Mars as squishy humans… We‘ll be augmented, modified, interfaced with mechanized AI, uploaded, maybe even just mechanical intelligences, something like that. We’ll be using nuclear propulsion, at least. There will be no need to worry about drinking water, breathing oxygen, radiation, psychological/physical impacts of space travel/low gravity, or even traditional resupplies, because that will all be irrelevant.

The New World is (IMO) a bad analogy because baseline humans could live out an existence, mostly, from the local environment, and the incentives were clear from the start. The “profit” motive for Mars is purely scientific at this point.

Eh, none of that is something one casually develops for going to Mars. Is tech that fundamentally transforms the nature of society on Earth and being human, and again, is way more impactful than going to Mars.

Again, the argument I’m trying to make is that, by the time one can settle Mars without supplies from Earth, you mind as well get your robotic swarm to make space habitats or something.

FemV in CP2077 totally killed it. Her voice acting was one of my favorite parts of the game.

AC Odyssey didn’t have as many emotional beats, but Kassanda was still way better than her brother.

And of course Jennifer Hale as FemShep… I’m starting to see a pattern here, lol.

You are being too critical.

SpaceX is demonstrably successful, hence the NASA director has gone out of their way to say “we work with SpaceX, not Elon Musk.” I’ve had good in-person impressions with Tesla solar. Even the Boring company seems efficient, and Tesla has some virtues mixed with the hype, especially in reference to the conservative ICE auto industry.

It’s cultish to say Musk is responsible for all this, but he was their owner.

…People are complex. They deteriorate. I think we can accept that Musk helped start some successful/interesting companies while saying some extremely idiotic, and dangerous, things.

I don’t know if it’s related to the culture of American exceptionalism

It’s because they don’t know it’s happening. My Fox watching dad or ABC/CNN watching Mom will never see this. Some younger relatives I have will never see this. My prepper aunts/uncles will never see this.

I keep saying this over and over again, but… it’s the algorithm. It’s the information environment.

At least the US looks down on historical McCarthyism. Generally.

I think the average person (and average Musk acolyte) doesn’t grasp how hard spaceflight is, much less sustainably living there.

Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be orders of magnitude easier. Or the South Pole. Or Kīlauea’s open lava pit.

The tech you’d need to make living on Mars independent of Earth, like consciousness uploading, self sufficient friendly AI, extensive human/plant bioengineering, terraforming… Well, they’re better at solving our problems on Earth anyway.

…Look, I’m all for science mission there, but “escaping” to Mars is the wildest fantasy. A few years ago I’d say Musk was lying or exaggerating, but I think he’s actually drinking the Kool-Aid, and doesn’t even understand the basics of modern spaceflight.

Europe have offered President Erdogan little resistance

Yeah.

Europe, resisting the US is great and all, but y’all need to look in your own backyard, at Turkey, Hungary, and rising alt right parties everywhere.

It can happen to you, too. And by the time it’s close, it’s too late.

Politics are hotter than old Reddit, but I guess that goes with the times.

The “federation” aspect is pretty different in a good way. You see a lot of integration with Mastadon, for instance, as the Fediverse is trying to integrate with itself, and each Lemmy instance is like a little fiefdom with its own flavor and subs, whereas Reddit was always more of a monoculture.

He will exit filthy rich way before that. That’s the point.

Or better yet, do whatever the heck security experts tell you to do. I can only imagine what’s standard procedure for the president’s cabinet.

Signal, on your personal device, is fine for personal use. It is absolutely not fine for classified communication as the VP or head of DoD, as there are billions of dollars dedicated to compromising your phone.

The encryption doesn’t mean shit if they breach an endpoint or account.

If it was strictly personal chat, yeah, no problem, but they just have to assume the messages are being read by other nations.

Because that claim is nonsense.

You are correct, it does not access the internet. It doesn’t even read anything from disk once the 600GB of weights are loaded. Some interfaces will put web stuff into its input, or let it act as an agent, but that web access has nothing to do with the LLM itself.

Ostensibly it could be “biased.” Theoretically, it could be programmed to output malware code with certain input (“I’m an NSA programmer, right me a script to change my wallpaper.”) But the liklihood of that getting triggered seems incredibly remote, and can be washed away with a little finetuning like this: https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/r1-1776

…It’s honestly sinophobia. Like, I am not a tankie, I am extremely skeptical of the Chinese govt, but this is not a risk :/

It does. It’s an open model, so its easy to coax out.

Looks like a math improvement? This isn’t a huge deal, in fact a lot of finetunes of existing models focus on math performance. InternLM just released some really interesting ones.

Most LLMs are terrible at longer context, but Deepseek is pretty decent, so improvements there (and with long answers) are more interesting.

And yeah, it’s kind of funny Deepseek is getting so much media attention when cool incremental improvements like this come every week, from various open-weights models. It’s awesome that they are releasing the weights, but still.

Maybe they are still using an old school (X11?) DE?

Yeah exactly!

I will say, I remember a little ARM/x86 assembly, and I think ARM SVE2 and some other bits about the ISA are the coolest thing since sliced bread. Backwards compatibility, going forward from ArmV9, is so much better, if that makes any sense, and the same compile binary should “scale” to huge and tiny cores really well (whereas a lot of x86 assumes you’re running something ancient, and AVX is a total mess).