…i would fear people who actually would believe such a thing. You don’t need a phd in medicine to know otherwise. Heck, you don’t even need any school-knowledge for that.

Isn’t there at least one person for ANY kind of bullshit? Also, the father of medicine said once: “everything is lethal, the dosage is what matters” 😁

And that’s the nonsense about it. We’re not talking about cars or such, but a general concept. And most likely take one or two specific applications of it and use it as a definition of the thing itself. And even with cars you couldn’t condemned them because tanks exists, and ignore ambulances or such.

Also, it’s usually the exact same group that also mostly uses products of what they hate so much. Microsoft, google, Facebook or any us-american bigtec. If LLMs would be as bad as they say it is, stop funding it. Simple. Really really simple. I don’t use any of those, so it’s possible to actually protest besides big word and vote by wallet.

Well, tbh, if someone has an opinion that isn’t swayable by facts, why should I take that person seriously? It’s like talking with religious nutjobs. They already have all “answers”.

The facts are clear, relatively simple, and accessible by everyone. And “evil” is generally considered bad. But LLMs are not just “that precise one thing” that could be declared evil. It’s a concept. The application of it changes the good/evil attribution. Chatbot? Obviously bad. Helping to determine cancer in a Patient? Good. Etc.

If people don’t WANT to argue because they already joined a “AI is the devil”-cult, so be it. Not my job to convince anyone of anything 😊

If that fills your clueless heart with joy, be my guest 🤷🏻

Just because it was a nicely worded statement, doesn’t make it universal.

I use a local LLM for our smart home. It wastes a Lil bit of energy, which is still faaaar below my 1500W while gaming. Is gaming evil now? It helps dramatically in ways that were never possible before like “turn on all lights at 40% in the color purple and also turn on music. My fav playlist” followed by a “no, use a warm color and close all windows”.

Not every LLM is a fucking chatbot that eats the planet to “create” a shitty cat-meme for Granny’s Facebook.

Don’t assume everyone uses silly chatbots. That is ONE application of LLMs, and it is indeed stupid and kills out environment for basically no benefit.

Exactly. Seems you understood the point. Also same as cars, planes, spoons and machetes.

“AI is just a tool” - #1 thing said by tools.

#1 thing said by arrogant turds with no clue.

“Ai” isn’t inherently evil. It’s just a tool. An incredibly interesting and marvelous tool, in theory.

What we make of it and how we use it matters. Noone needs stupid chatbots. People should only be allowed to use them after graduating an exam of what they actually are and how they work. In the current state they’re 90% bullshit and harmful.

But LLMs surely have great and reasonable applications. People often fear what they don’t really understand. And LLMs really are a topic that often even “techies” don’t get, so why should a layman.

Yes, they are environmental Desasters. But try to substract all the trillions of silly nonsensical queries millions of people hammer into chatbots, that once were simple search-engine - queries. And it’s not THAT bad anymore.

Thanks man, that’s all I needed to know. Nothing worse than playing a sequel first and only getting all references or so in hindsight.

Perfect. Thanks for the detailed summary. My wife has a switch-something with breath of the wild. But I could never get myself to playing on this tiny thing or on a TV with 30fps or whatever the game offers (anything <80 gives me headaches). But the five minutes I managed to check it out, got my curiosity.

So, seems like I finally take a look into Zelda…

Perfect! I’m curious to Zelda around for the first time ever. Who’s envious? 😁

Thanks man!

Sounds solid. Hopefully it aged better than the 2600 games 😁

In hindsight I don’t really know how we could justify paying 50€ for 10 pixels and two beeps 😁 but I’d say pacman? Was my first beside pong.

Still have the cartridges in my cabinet 😍

Thanks man, will do! As there were tons of Zeldas: it’s a finished story I can even follow without knowing any other title? I assume so, also assuming it’s not just great gameplay but also great story.

Never played the orig (never had a console after the Atari 2600), but as much as I’ve hears of the zelda-games, it’s probably worth a shot?

A pirated ROM will probably do fine too? Before even thinking of giving nintendo a single Buck.

Thanks either way!

What an intelligent “study”…

Know what a tool is for, how it works, how you operate it, then use it for the best possible application in the optimal way and be disappointed just partly, not completely.

It’s like trying to use a bike to drive backwards up a mountain with one foot on pedal and one behind your head. Chances for success are slim, but not zero!

Thanks!

And yes, it indeed sounds like a feature I also was missing. Got 500 items in the wishlist. Some for like “totally buy if slightly discounted” and some shit I just like to observe.

I was close to making my own tool for that, but then it Wouldn’t be integrated…

I can’t consume YouTube, so what did steam better? I noticed nothing new…

In my company this was normal. New great game got released? People took a week off or two, or worked more from home or moved to part-time. And it was all fine. I already expected that as I am a gamer myself 😁

That’s what most capitalist numbnuts just don’t get: a happy employee is a productive employee.

Mine had profit-shares (from janitor upwards), come-and-go-as-you-please, free food and drinks and whatnot. No stupid forced meetings or dumb “bonding-trips” or anything. And guess what? Noone ever exploited the system. Every agree-upon work was always delivererd. Often before estimated deadline. And also I didn’t earn 35838291x the average employee-salary. Just a tiny bit more, which is fair considering it was my risk all alone.

Point is…people who do these headlines, or even think like this, have totally lost reality and were never really human but just a worker-bee with more money. I usually pity them. No amount of money will ever fill their inner void.