Well the alternative is a convicted rapist who wants to harvest your organs…

I don’t think it’s all grift - there are absolutely places where LLMs are the best tech out there, but it’s probably not going to take everyone’s jobs any time soon (at least not on merit - in sure there are plenty of places that’d accept a 50% drop in quality for a 90% drop in price)

I’ve seen a pretty compelling case study of a company using an LLM as a “tier zero” support tech - instead of getting a tier 1 tech to classify a case, decide if they had the tools to address the issue or if it needs to go to tier 2, work out if it was an instance of a known issue etc before they actually start working on the problem, give the LLM some examples and get it to do the triage so the humans can do the more complicated stuff. It does about as well as a human, for a fraction of the price.

Work paid for me to go to a “getting started with AI for businesses” seminar run by [redacted reputable organisation name] and holy crap the FOMO.

• The whole premise of the thing basically boiled down to “LLMs are a massive game changing technology that is going to make huge amounts of human tasks obsolete and if you don’t get in on it now your competitors will and you’ll be bankrupt in a decade” which… idk. Useful technology for sure, but this isn’t the AI singularity. The vibe I got was all these people are old enough to see the fortunes won and lost when the internet exploded, and are terrified that this is going to be that all over again and that they’ll end up left behind.
• People massively personify LLMs without thinking through the actual detail in how they work. Someone asked a question about how you can rely on information the LLM gives you, and the suggestion was to just ask it how confident it is which isn’t really how LLMs work - they are fancy auto complete, it has no theory of mind or actual reasoning - it can’t know if what it’s saying is true or not, but because it is being presented as something you can converse with, it feels like there is some deeper cognition that you can interrogate

I think there are few overlapping things here that are probably worth pulling apart. Keep in mind that all of these are spectrums, some people might experience these acutely, others mildly, others not at all.

• Gender non-comformance: having a preference for activities that are typically ascribed to or preferring to appear as the gender opposite to the one you present as - men who like wearing dresses and sewing, women who prefer having short cropped hair and playing rugby
• Transgender - a feeling that your sex (your biology) does not match up with your gender (do you consider yourself to be a man or a woman?). Gender is a really complex thing and is pretty strongly informed by society - what were you taught “man” and “woman” means beyond just sex. For some people this disconnect can be dysphoric, and it quite often overlaps with gender non-comformance
• Transition - changing your gender presentation to be different from your sex. This can be small things - changing your hair style - to large changes such as getting legal recognition for a new name and gender identity or seeking medical interventions.

I guess my point is that there are plenty of people who engage in small non-conformances or who feel like their experience of being man doesn’t 100% line up with how society perceives men, and that’s valid, and is a trans experience, but doesn’t mean that they do or should feel like “trans” is a label or identity that applies to them. In the same way that you can understand that you are a little bit bi, without that being a significant part of your identity

So I pull out my keyboard

And I pull out my Glock

And I dismount your girl

And I mount slash proc

Cos I’ve got your PID

And the bottom line

Is you best not front

Or its kill dash nine

I was in the same place as you a few years ago - I liked swarm, and was a bit intimidated by kubernetes - so I’d encourage you to take a stab at kubernetes. Everything you like about swam kubernetes does better, and tools like k3s make it super simple to get set up. There _is& a learning curve, but I’d say it’s worth it. Swarm is more or less a dead end tech at this point, and there are a lot more resources about kubernetes out there.

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Trying to extort the federal government like that seems like a really quick way to end up with your face, phone number and home address in a press release, along with a note from the NSA that basically says “this guy has $33 million in Bitcoin, would be a shame if someone kicked in his door and beat him with a bat until he gave up the keys :)”

Taking donations for a specific purpose (developing jellyfin core) then spending it on something else (donations to other related projects) is something donors and tax authorities generally frown on

You, know what - this might actually be useful. People were complaining about not being involved in decision making, so I have to run a monthly meeting where people will either sit contributing nothing even when asked a direct question, or insist on bike shedding the most unimportant details. If the meeting is a bunch of AI homunculi then it’ll be quicker at least

Fun fact, a significant proportion of the people doing these scams are victims of human trafficking who are being forced into it with threats of violence

https://learnconlaw.com/78-the-disqualification-clause

Maybe. It’s complicated

Edit: yeah I’m conflating two different things. Interesting listen though

Man, every time I read anything about the US healthcare system it gets more dystopian - I’m sorry you are having to deal with this nonsense

Shocking.

I suggest we trial the new scheme for 6 months or so, exclusively with the families of MPs who are in favour of it

On top of the logistics of moving massive amounts of water around, flood water is typically highly contaminated - by their nature, floods sweep up everything in their path, which typically will include things like:

• Soil and sand (a massive pain to filter out)
• Agricultural run off (manure, pesticides, fertilizer, …)
• Raw sewage (from treatment plants that tend to be near waterways, or just from damaged infrastructure)
• Industrial wastes (from existing plants, or old contaminated sites)

Infectious disease is a major problem after a flood, partly because of infrastructure damage but also just because so many people will have come in contact with contaminated water - you don’t want to irrigate your crops with flood water, much less drink it

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If you figure it out, I know several companies that would be more than willing to drop 7 figures a year to license the tech from you

I’d love to hear how you managed to convince someone to do complex, detailed work over 8 months without paying them

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions

Would you give candid testimony if you knew that your boss - let alone the general public - were going to see it later?

The breakdown you are wanting shouldn’t be generally available within LMG, let alone publicly available.

Absolutely, which is why they hired external consultants to do the review - they are a neutral third party, with a reputation of fairness to uphold