as alive as you need me to be
I know I know lol, I was actually working for MSFT during the Windows Phone era. =P
I'm not joking about underground vaults of servers under the main MSFT campus tho, tee hee!
Seriously, that whole campus just is its own fucking city, MSFT literally has its own... corporate mass transit system, fleets of cars and buses to drive people around, also take them to and from work if you're roughly within a 20 mile radius of BelRed.
Hooray for non toxic and biodegradeable paint!
It's basically viscous food dye, lol, and I think even the uh, the hulls, the capsules, I believe they're largely biodegradable these days as well.
MSFT, the everything platform!
... that plays by Hotel California rules...
That's not cherenkov radiation...
... that's Cortana, oh God she's still rampant!!!
Used to be that MSFT would take down a Nazi chatbot, get embarassed, pretend the whole thing never happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
Now they're just paying for it... 'cautiously'.
What happened to Cortana?
Did she get all corrupted and go feral or whatever?
Is she just like, locked into some airgapped cluster, somewhere underneath Redmond, slowly becoming SHODAN?
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Yes!
Yes, they're all computer programs, no, they're not all as spectacularly energy, water and money intensive, as reliant on mass plagiarism as LLMs.
AI is a much, much more varied field of research than just LLMs... or, well, rather, it was, untill the entire industry decided to go all in on what 5 years ago was just one of many, many, radically different approaches, such that people now basically just think AI and LLM are the same thing.
Actually, a lot of non LLM AI development, (and even LLMs, in a sense) is based very fundamentally on concepts of negative and positive reinforcement.
In such situations... pain and pleasure are essentially the scoring rubrics for a generated strategy, and fairly often, in group scenarios... something resembling mutual trust, concern for others, 'empathy' arises as a stable strategy, especially if agents can detect or are made aware of the pain or pleasure of other agents, and if goals require cooperation to achieve with more success.
This really shouldn't be surprising... as our own human (mamallian really) empathy fundamentally just is a biological sort of 'answer' to the same sort of 'question.'
It is actually quite possible to base an AI more fundamentally off of a simulation of empathy, than a simulation of expansive knowledge.
Unfortunately, the people in charge of throwing human money at LLM AI are all largely narcissistic sociopaths... so of course they chose to emulate themselves, not the basic human empathy that their lack.
Their wealth only exists and is maintained by their construction and refinement of elaborate systems of confusing, destroying, and misdirecting the broad empathy of normal humans.
On this blessed day, we are all truly vegans.
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I mean, its all perfomative at that point, right?
Unless there is some lore I am unaware of... isn't a slimegirl basically a Ditto?
More transhuman than transgender at that point.
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Yep, instant recall of... apparently a core memory.
You can touch my hair, undress me everywhere~!
Come on Barbie lets go party.
I wanted to attempt to somehow rewrite it to be bacterial themed, but ... I don't know enough microbial vocab, and every bit I do know has way too many syllables.
I'd honestly love to join you, unfortunately, at the moment, I am crippled, doing PT everyday.
It is grueling but it is working... but yeah, at the moment, I couldn't hack it, I'd just be a drain.
Another 3 or 6 months?
Maybe re-evaluate then.
Like I said, I am familiar with that kind of lifestyle, and... it seems much more appealing, and also rewarding.
...
I am... more or less doing the hermit thing, just in a shitty, but very cheap apartment, spending basically nothing, taking a sabbatical, just slowly building up savings and paying off debt...
Credit Karma tells me I have a better than average credit score for ... my age group... which is basically horrifying, as I literally spent a year homeless following bring fucked up in an assault, got my identity and all ids and cards stolen, lost my job...
But somehow, I, really only not literally homeless for about the last 9 months...
Somehow I am doing financially better than average?
Either that's CK lying, or the US is completely fucked, outside of billionaires.
That's what I mean when I say... this whole way America does urban society just largely does not work, the economy is currently imploding into Great Depression 2.0, but this time, instead of Hoovervilles, we're gonns have concentration camps for the homeless.
I just barely escaped the cutoff point on being in that statistic, but, if SSDI gets pared down... well then no actually, I didn't.
Fun stuff to live in 'interesting' times.
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EDIT: Well shit.
You are apparently in Minnesota, apologies for 'stalking' / browsing your entirely public comment history.
My plan for uh, not dying in the next decade actually has been to get to Minnesota as soon as my legs and back can actually handle it...
Lots of fresh water, not a deep red state, seems to be the ... least likely to get completely fucked by the coming widespresd increase of climate disasters, also has a pretty reasonable CoL, as well as a reasonably stable and varied economic mix, half the country is doing a housing market nose dive, not MN, seems like it avoided a good deal of speculation.
I guess if you've got any general... relocation tips, some fairly quiet town or neighborhood for me to land in MN, maybe end of this year, maybe next year, I'd appreciate it.
Probably all you need to know is that when you see industry conferences about AI and CyberSecurity?
Yeah, they're not about how to use AI to improve security with neat, new heuristic detection methods, and automated response scenarios.
They are about all the extra work you have to do, all the extra things you now need to be aware of and worried about, because AI so routinely introduces so many holes and exploits and flaws ... in so many places that you normally wouldn't think to check, because surely any person or team putting out that terrible of code would have been fired, right?
Beyond the methods one can use to 'trick' AI into doing things it isn't 'supposed to do'... mass AI adoption by large swathes of the economy is just literally a national security threat, it fundamentally compromises the security and integrity of tech infrastructure that now undergirds basically everything.
See, I've heard that story, that he basically ran ... well, arguably, a worm that did network analysis on what was installed on every computer in the MSFT internal network, realized more people had DOOM installed... than Windows...
... and I have also heard that he actually ported DOOM to... either MS DOS, or Win95... ?
I genuienly do not know which is true, if they're all true, if they're all false... I can't remember the source for each of these, but I know I've heard or read all these semi-close variants from somewhere, over the years.
Just to throw on more factoids:
Wasn't Gabe Newell either the first, or among the first, to port Doom to Win 95?
Yeah, is Trump gonna fire Patel and Bongino now, because bad no good data?
Thoreau comes to mind.
Yep.. its a different way of life.
Slower, more intentional, less frills, less impulsive, different kinds of worries, different kinds of joys.
I myself am this... really weird sort of person that more or less grew up quite close to that, but alsi loved tech from a young age, went to uni, went to work as a corpo...
And I saw that all this 'high falutin' fast life was fun, very engaging, very rewarding in novel ways... but also, just... not ultimately sustainable, not the way we do it in most of the US... too much debt, too much consumerism, too much greed.
"Too many men, too many people, causing too many problems... not much love to go around."
So, now that ... well basically the economy is totally collapsing... well I at least am adaptable, and know how to live lean, do the long term planning I can afford to.
I forget which Bond movie it was, but Desmond Llewelyn's last line as Q:
Always have an escape plan.
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well, I'm doing my part by feeding the roving hoarde of feral catgirls that show up every couple of nights.
oddly, they ... don't seem to really go for normal cat food.
I've found that a crushed up mix of ramen packets and pocky works well, mix it with either tuna or chicken.
Also, they scream at me now if I just give them water... I gave them some boba tea once, and now it seems to be a requirement, they'll start clawing each other if it isn't present.
Find a stream, dig a well, set up a rain collection system, have a cistern / pump / filter.
Yep, its difficult, but not impossible.
People have been doing that for tens of thousands of years... though I will grant you this is increasingly, unrealistically difficult for an average person to pull off these days, even if you basically learn how to properly do all of it yourself, lots more legal restrictions, and construction/materials are costly.
Time to go back to Wind Talkers...
Oh, wait, ICE can't tell a brown Native American from a Hispanic, never mind.