So they actually tested LLMs for being AGIs?

Should have asked me… I would have told them the best ants in the world fail the test for being snails.

For the impatient: it was a story about Merlin. Not a story written by Merlin :)

And an impressive documentation about what historians can do with technology.

Manipulative tricks. They do NOT want to make it easy for you.

For example, if they can keep your brain busy with a complicated name, then you put a lot of brain energy into remembering their product.

The “Silver Adam 590 HT” is so much better than the Adam.

Let’s call it the “Hegseth switch”

“revolutionary” business model consists of wedging themselves between existing markets and participants, then bleeding both sides dry with escalating fees and commissions.

Somebody has learned “shareconomy”

The caveat here is why Europeans are a bit better than this?

The European countries had their own wave of fascism and dictatorship in recent centuries. Some seem to have leaned from the experience.

The descent became a downslide and now it’s an avalanche.

No, it hasn’t always been that bad. Stupidity happens. It is human. Most times people were able to keep stupidity in check.

That’s why democracy was invented, by the way. It was founded on the belief that a collective can be more reasonable than a single or small group.

Not saying that reason were the opposite of stupidity (that would be wisdom), but reason is a means to keep stupidity in check.

leading to all out war and global catastrophe.

I doubt it.

Unlike your typical nice bar brawl, not everybody is actually that eager to get involved in an exchange of nukes, and alliances get sometimes weaker when the risks get higher.

I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.

Of course you are free to build your opinion on whatever speculation you like the most.

Did you know that a good share of all American nukes are mounted on short range missiles that can travel only 100 km or so? Some people were considering funny scenarios there…

I suggest to read about Hiroshima, and what really happened there, and afterwards.

Here’s a good book: Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki https://a.co/d/8KS4RXC

One bomb kills people in a circle of 10 or 50 km (I forgot), and injures people maybe 100km around. Then it does damage to nature maybe even 1000 km around. I live 2000km from Chernobyl, and we had some warnings regarding vegetables for a year or so.

But the planet has a circumference of 40.000 km. Now let your thoughts run around the planet.

an effective deterrent to war

Do not fool yourself. Nukes have NOT achieved that on their own.

It has always been humans who were somewhat responsible and willing to communicate (diplomacy) instead of shooting blindly.

Top 100 means about half of all countries.

So many people having their fingers at the triggers. There would be many unreasonable and evil ones among them.

We would have nuclear war every year.

should I do

Read. For example the tutorials in the openwrt wiki. I found them quite helpful.

before flashing Openwrt

Nothing… except the exact prerequisites for the flashing itself.

Your network config comes afterwards.

tech could leak to US

No fear. There is a strong wall…

He isn’t political today either.

He has just found a new playground to live out his narcissism.

though they’ve been benched on paid leave for now.

How convenient!

So they can seamlessly continue their NEW jobs, working remotely for $ForeignPower, while collecting both paychecks. 🤑🤑

fediverse real-time notifications

Don’t.

Keep the last tiny bit of your sanity.

Create a startup in reasearch and development of fully autonomous robotic electrical helicopters with swappable batteries and shiny plush seats for the passengers etc.pp. Collect huge venture capital for it.

Don’t forget to brag about your $1 salary!

Go broke after 3 years with a shrug.

Rent that land for some nice money to your startup as a test airfield.

/s

I don’t know any of their reasoning, but money as a form of speech is just obviously bullshit.

Unfortunately, freedom of speech is the only one of all the basic human rights that Americans seem to know. So whenever someone needs a new right, they have only this to build upon.

(Whenever they want to take away a right from someone, they babble about NatioANAL Security)

Yes, you can easily do it.

You want to look at 2 things: 1. Noise 2. Ratio of performance / power usage.

1. Noise

When your PC runs 24/7 then it might be annoying to hear it’s noise sometimes. Real server cases are usually even much louder than former PC’s because they are built for super strong air flow inside.

Think carefully what you need. In my situation it is just one light wooden door away from my bed, so I wanted it impossible to hear. I optimized it so, and it ended up being so quiet that I cannot hear any fans, but I hear the clicking of the harddisks all the time. Well, I got used to that, mostly. For my next home server I want to build my own case that absolutely blocks this noise.

2. Ratio of performance / power usage

People are frequently asking what if I turn this old Pentium etc. into a server?

Well, these old CPU’s have very low performance compared to new ones, but it might just be sufficient. But then you recognize that the old veterans burn 100 Watts for the same performance where a modern (low performance) CPU burns only 5 Watts, and now it will do that 24/7. Think about your yearly costs. Many times it turns out that buying a new one saves your money very easily.

His personal race is over? Oooohhhh, so sorry for him.

AI is not over at all. Maybe he himself will not become the ruler of the world now. No loss.