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Comment Re:Your AI designed personal computer! (Score 1) 65

Not good enough. The bunker needs to be buried 2km deep on a remote island in the antarctic and "surveillance" means a battallion of marines, paid 10x their salary in gold backed by an aircraft carrier task force. Maybe, maybe then it will be safe. No guarantees.

Comment Re: Huh? (Score 1) 117

That's nonsense. Mathematics is plural because there is more than one type of mathematics. Arithmetic and geometry to name just two of them. If your course is in arithmetic and nothing else than calling it singular makes sense. But if it covers more than one type of mathematics then it is obviously plural.

Comment Re: Bubble Say POP! (Score 4, Insightful) 54

No they don't. They put it into assets, which have a limited supply. This is the cause of house price inflation, and many other forms of asset inflation. This impoverishes everyone else because the rest of us simply can't compete for these assets against people who effectively have an unlimited supply. So it ends up with the wealthy owning all the assets then renting them back to the people who actually need them. This helps keep wages down because people need to work to pay these rents and so can't afford to withhold their labour. And so the cycle continues, the wealthy get even more of the available wealth,m and the rest of us suffer.

This is the inevitable result of Neoliberal, or more accurately named Neofeudal, economics. Post 1945 Governments were providing increasing amounts of the essential services, including housing, and this held prices down and kept wages up. Oil cartels started the reversal of this by causing artificially high prices, then Neofeudal economics caused the sell-off of Government assets, and all the gains we'd made since 1945 went into reverse.

Comment Re: Trying to corner the market (Score 1) 162

This is an example of the problem with Capitalism at this stage though. It's not just the car industry, it's pretty much all of them. Whichever industry you choose they become homogenised. When there isn't quite enough to go around competition works well enough to raise standards, increase production to the stage where there is enough to go around and keep prices down. But when there's a surplus competition simply doesn't work as well. Prices shoud decrease, but that makes profit difficult to maintain so instead of competing the industry players tend to work together to maintain higher prices and therefore profits. Artificial scarcity is maintained and new players are prevented from entering the market because that would increase supply and therefore reduce profits. Workers are squeezed, also to maintain profits. Wealth pools in a few hands which creates a feedback cycle which eccelerates the process, and this translates to political power further accelerating the process. At this stage Capitalism works alomst entirely against the interests of the general population and the previous prosperity goes into reverse. This can be held off somewhat through stringent regualtion, which is what the EU tries to do, but this can only ever be a holding action. Capitalism does not work for the gerneral population unless there is scarcity.

Comment Re: Trying to corner the market (Score 2) 162

The point of an economy is to provide goods for the people of that economy. Firstly the essentials, food, shelter, clothing. Then luxuries. China's economy is achieving that increasingly well. America's economy is getting worse at it. Capitalism is a decent method to raise an economy up from a level of scarcity to a level of reasonable comfort for the population, but once that level is reached it becomes an increasingly poor method. In fact once a reasonable level of comfort is reached Capitalism becomes actively harmful to the population and the eocnomy as a whole. This is the level where a more Socialist model should be steadily switched to, replacing the now wasteful and counter-productive Capitalist model. Sticking with pure Capitalism once the economy is productive enough is actively harmful and dangerous to your population.

Comment Re:That started way before chatbots (Score 1) 84

Yeah, I'd call that sentence more... vapid and awkward, like much corporate speech, than tortured. It's not like it's unparseable; the meaning is fairly clear -- it's just pointless in the context presented. It serves no constructive purpose for the reader, being a vague attempt to invoke a nonspecific sense of nostalgia, likely to distract people from the frustration of the shop being closed? Corporations churn this slop out with or without LLMs

Comment Re:Ruby never was that much ... (Score 1) 80

Well, I used to be a big Ruby guy and now I am a big TypeScript guy

That said, Ruby has its uses, I use it as a general scripting language to test things all the time. ruby syntax and metaprogramming is genius grade stuff

My last job was a mid sized company that used Ruby for everything and it was a bad idea. There are lots "Ruby on Rails Boot Camp" types around, they employed them, as opposed to retaining their experts, and now the company has had row after row of lay-offs. The problem is that ruby is good boot camp language for beginners who can't handle anything fancy and they are cheap, so management thinks it is a good idea. Cheap is always good. Lots of cheap glued together with non-coder Physics-grad managers who think SCRUM is a religion is... not.

Comment Re:Miracles (Chips, how do they work?) (Score 1) 126

> Put competent, diverse and industry specific leadership on your board instead of stacking it with multiple CEOs. (Intel's current board is terrible)

Yes and he actually stated that he regret not bringing in more semiconductor experienced people on the board, so it seems that he recognizes the failure on his side

> i. Incentivize rank and file who perform well. "We didn't meet targets as a company so nobody gets anything" is completely unacceptable.

Yup. Nothing kills motivation like the idiot or power-hungry political narcisissist down the hall gets stock options and you get to slave in the cellar.

> ii. Stop the constant layoffs for "underperforming" - nothing kills a company faster.

Dunno, my last company went down because they did NOT let the underperformers loose but played the whole "SCRUM mean everyone is equal and happy and in touch with their feelings" game. As opposed to letting people who are domain experts do their domain expert thing.

> i. Get rid of lines of business that do not contribute to core company. IT consulting services - seriously?

Intel does IT consulting?! Seriously? Why?
The only thing they should consult on is custom chip or interface design for niche markets.

> ii. Build your brand up again. You've lost it to the competition steadily over the past 20 years. Hire an all star marketing team and pay them significantly more than what they are worth.

Please no. Intel is only riding on marketing and they do not innovate. As soon as they have a dominant position they sit on their butts and let the marketeers suck the last drop of blood out of the market. Apples push into ARM silicon that outguns Intel in every measure and AMD breathing into their necks is a very good thing for the world. If you WintelSoft a break they will again dominate he IT world like a cancer for 20 years like they did from the late 90s.The little innovation they tried (Itanium/Itanic) was basically a raging dumpster fire.

Comment Re:Crap (Score 1) 289

Okay, but you have to admit it's useful to distinguish between the intelligence that AI seems to display, and that humans seem to display.

Comment Re:Tyler Cowen is an AI fanboi (Score 1) 69

It is not at all true. AI may be based on thousands of books, but that's in the same way that a Flat Earther's nonsense explanations are based on all the science that they've seen and failed to understand. AI is a badly designed and thrown together mish-mash of everything it's trained on, seen through a lens that distorts everything and is completely unable to actually understand even the simplest part of it.

Sure, there are some humans who are writing for AI rather than humans, but all that achieves is to accelerate Model Collapse.An LLM, no matter how carefully trained, is unable to evaluate what it's trained on, meaning it gives it all equal worth no matter how batshit crazy it might actually be. While the LLM algorithm has some uses if it's training data is carefully curated for a specific purpose, that curation is simply not possible for general purpose models which is why they are simply let loose to collect slop from all over the web.Despite some people still claiming they will improve, the opposite is the truth. They will get steadily worse and less reliable. Soon enough this will become obvious to everyone and the bubble will burst. With any luck it will take out a lot of the worst Techbros with it.

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