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@basedleft123 @RWApodcast This system is likely so its compatible with conventional mortar rounds(already stockpiled/mass produced). Designing an actuator+reciever+mag/belt feed system for those rounds more complex/costly than a simple 1 function robo arm + mortar launcher(aka a sealed tube w/ fixed pin)

@ErrolTostigson The perfect general nicotine ingestion device is IQOS(compact leaf tobacco cartridge vaporizer). Was set to be introduced 15 years ago but got mired in decade long legal battles, right when vapes/zyns got traction. Now limited testing US release.

It’s easier to quit nicotine by switching to smoking instead of zyns. Smoking sucks ngl, I just do it less and less now. It’s been like 3 days and I just don’t want to ever smoke.

@jtalexander @CrownedCaribou @0x49fa98 With old models the context limit was so small that there was no efficiency gains for serious work. Why its gotten crazy buzz recently is because the new models not only consistently surpass this intersection, they are far above it.

@jtalexander @CrownedCaribou @0x49fa98 Sounds a bad(aka free) model. Regardless, skill issue. Mentally model the overall project into its parts, model the context limit of the LLM in use via feedback from its output, input prompts granularly based on intersection of project sub-parts and context limit.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the fascination with AI is fueled primarily by below-average IQ individuals that are incapable from distinguishing vocabulary and verbosity from intelligence. Ever since they were released, I've never been terribly impressed by LLMs. (Visual AI are a different matter.) There are ways they can be useful, but their actual uses are so limited that it makes this race for AI sound like an absurd money pit. Whenever I point out the things it cannot do, I am inevitably met with somebody eventually saying, "Well, they're good at X." No. No they aren't. You just aren't good at X and you can't tell that its wrong. There's a reason 'vibecoded' is being used as a slur. They can't even code right. I spent an entire weekend trying to get Grok and GPT help me build an Excel spreadsheet for managing a Madden roster and it couldn't even do that properly. It couldn't write formulas for Excel properly. The only things I have found LLMs useful for is: (1) Relatively simple fact checks that require barely more than a Google search; (2) Brainstorming because just getting your thoughts on paper and even having a retard pitch an idea can be enough to make better ideas occur to you; and, (3) As a glorified search engine. The people who come to believe these LLMs are actually highly intelligent, rational, conscious, alive, ensouled—these people definitely are not that bright. I'm sorry, but you just can't be while believing these things. I don't necessarily agree that these less intelligent people are not conscious, but they are certainly experiencing life in a less-sapient manner.

@dread_numen @Object_Zero_ Right so today, we have thousands of diverse firms in service layer making up global economy. Irt the op, a lot of that $ will be directly transferred to pure energy + specific manufacturing demand. Things are (likely) going to get much more centralized than they are today.

@blast_double @Object_Zero_ yes correct, you see the picture

I do think maybe 50 years from now, there will be something like 8 companies in the world that represent 70% of global GDP. I think it’s far more likely that an org like Nvidia moves downstream, than AI model companies move upstream. But the economy will become a stack of serial and parallel layers (resource extraction, manufacturing, transport & distribution, operations), and the consumer stuff will occupy some thin fuzzy fluff layer on the top. I expect society (whoever controls the military), will tolerate benevolent monopolies.

@dread_numen @Object_Zero_ "Services"(broadly) takes up massive layer of largest economies. Large % $ in this layer is software based(creation + maintenance of). This layer is going to some degree eaten by LLMs built on scaffolding built by LLMs. These LLMs need need hardware + energy but no pay for labor

@Object_Zero_ brother not to be glib but what do you think today is?

@husafell_stone Gemini pro is best deal if you only use chatbot interface, not the best at anything but powerful and cheap with massive usage limit. Claude and OpenAI currently have the best models especially for technical work, but are massively expensive if harnessed to their full potential.

Claude is way better than Grok I think

@HPZoomerWaffen @blancmontagnard @husafell_stone Other funny details: 1) through high school he would work during summer break on job sites full time doing bitch work, subs had no problem with him then 2) his dad is kind of an asshole and hard to work with at times, his son is much easier to work with on projects

@HPZoomerWaffen @blancmontagnard @husafell_stone I did some jobs for a builder who did this with his son. Most of the subcontractors fucked with him in subtle ways, actively hampered him, talked shit behind his back("nepo baby" etc). Kid was super nice and competent, clearly improved project management @ 21y/o. They hated that

@goatpurple1 @AckAck2020 @whatisnuclear My mistake 8ah for 56v are more like $300-450. Remember you need 3 for max power. And one charge will not get you through even one job, usually 2-3 swaps depending on job

@goatpurple1 @AckAck2020 @whatisnuclear 60cc equiv electric require 3 8ah for max power(youre always on max if commercial). $1600 vs ~$600 for gas. Need to wait for recharge if run out of batteries. 1 8ah battery ~$200 if you want spares. Vs $600 for 70cc gas and 15 second fillup. time is money in landscaping/tree work

My county banned gas-powered leaf blowers. Today I saw professionals with a loud gas-powered generator charging a bunch of leaf blower batteries in the back of his truck. I wonder what the net change in blower-hours per gallon is.

@goatpurple1 @AckAck2020 @whatisnuclear Electric are v good for lightest class in all areas of this niche(top handle chainsaw, hand blower, touch up trimmer etc). The larger the power requirement gets their performance and runtime gets very bad, need tons of big(ie very expensive) batteries, take long to charge, etc.

@goatpurple1 @whatisnuclear Electric leaf blowers roast batteries and don't blow as hard, so not only do you have to swap constantly(10-15mins blow time) the blowing takes longer so more swapping. The small handheld ones are very useful for quick touchup use but as a main blower electric are terrible.

@whatisnuclear Can't they buy extra batteries n switch em out ?

@VittelMax BAP talks about this with his desire to manage islands for experiments to answer these questions

@VittelMax It has more to do with what combo sub-phenotype pairings, there are many such pairings of both good looking resulting in good looking as there are the opposite. There are certain phenos of euro and asian that generally just pair horribly with any mix though.

The great majority of good looking mixed people are from two ugly parents. Meanwhile handsome people of complete different races—meaning no previous mix— tend to have botched mixed kids. People spend too much time on the internet, look around and verify for yourself

@1_glitchycent @favelaoverlord Not anywhere close to the speed and efficiency of AI, and that's factoring in the numerous technical hurdles and drawbacks of AI integration.

@blast_double @favelaoverlord Don't we have a surplus of people already able to do that labor? Not everyone can be a genetic researcher or industrial engineer.

@senguiniga @bizlet7 Obsession with generally gracile ideation of male beauty is persistent in both countries goes way back, likely older in Korea. The particular aesthetic being discussed though has pretty clear lineage from soft visual kei -> Jpop idols -> Kpop male idols and back again.

I feel like there is a whole crazy insane world of looksmaxxing in East Asia that makes ours look like tame in comparison.

@AdamCadmus @bizlet7 The J-looksmaxxers are on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of social-sexual behavoir as herbivore men, who are just regular dudes that are shy. Its even a trope: the salon styled, makeup laden ikemen stealing the herbivore mans cute workplace crush etc.

@blast_double @bizlet7 There were articles about “herbivore” Japanese men around 20 years ago. I almost forgot about bishonen too.

@1_glitchycent @favelaoverlord Genetic engineering, heavy industry or anything complex requires infinite amounts of drudging relatively simple but time/money consuming mental labor in between the "cool" stuff, and that labor is to varying degrees beneath the threshold of AI capabilities.

@favelaoverlord We could be investing in genetic engineering or heavy industry or orbital manufacturing but instead we have a billion dollar probability model that can't even identify spearmint and can maybe make every accountant in the country lose their job.

@AdamCadmus @bizlet7 The effeminate general "look" of the J-pop/male idol/ikemen style is highly popular with Japanese women. Majority of the J-looksmaxxers start down that road particularly for this reason rather than purely self idealized aesthetics, and its usually effective.

@bizlet7 I’m fairly sure Japanese men have been wearing makeup for over a decade. I’ve read/heard they have different standards of straight/gay. In Street Fighter Zangief is considered secretly gay and Vega(claw) is not.