Even if they cannot hoard that much themselves, anything they hoard will contribute to the death of the PC space and I don’t think Sony is just going to let their consumer electronics division, which has been a huge part of their brand for decades, go quietly into that good night. They might not have as much money to spend on it, but they’re not going to just stop making PS5s and other consumer electronics devices. That also means that if there’s PC hardware shortages for the foreseeable future, that they’re waiting for those shortages to strangle the PC gaming industry and revert a lot of those PC gaming converts back to console.

quadra baybeeee

My guess is they’re watching the PC parts supply issues due to AI and have decided they will use their institutional weight to also hoard parts to push consoles back to the forefront since it’s harder to pirate on consoles and easier to resell the same game on new console generations.

Sony is and has been a big institutional player and I would not be at all surprised to see them moving on hoarding parts themselves: for AI, for consumer electronics, for game consoles. They’ve been practically waiting for a way to kill the PC industry and take the profits from it.

What I came to ask. He should be here.

I fucking love the default video. Classic.

“This too shall pass.”

So is this just like Olestra all over again? It technically works but you get explosive greasy shits?

“You say, ‘$1.9 billion, what’s wrong with [saying] 2?’ Well, it didn’t get into China, but in my mind [the film’s box office is] over 2 [billion] because I know what we would have done in China.”

These people need a fucking reality check, for a litany of reasons.

all about the mindset

all about the mindset

You’re the person who posted it, how about you do it so viewing the post itself isn’t a fucking nightmare?

People shouldn’t have to scroll endlessly to just eventually get to someone in the comments fixing your shitty formatting that doesn’t fix the main issue with readability and length.

Just gonna leave this here…

https://vimeo.com/18168293

Remember when it was Alex Jones exposing Bohemian Grove during the Bush administration?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

If I have it right, the original cut of this came out in 2000-2001 and the Directors Cut came out in 2005.

I in no way shape or form endorse Alex Jones or his reprehensible views and politics. I am only sharing this for historical context and to hopefully inspire people to be skeptical instead of cynical when it comes to these kind of matters. Alex Jones followers became cynical and starting believing anything as long as it wasn’t from “mainstream media” and they went down a rabbit hole of madness. Use skepticism, don’t fall down the rabbit hole.

What can I say, people love minimizing mental health issues and turning them into jokes.

Fecal forensics*

Aged like milk.

I vote for the “die trying” bit.

Part of a properly functioning LLM is absolutely it understanding implicit instructions. That’s a huge aspect of data annotation work in helping LLMs become better tools, is grading them on either understanding or lack of understanding of implicit instructions. I would say more than half of the work I have done in that arena has focused on training them to more clearly understand implicit instructions.

So sure, if you explain it like the LLM is a five year old human, you’ll get a better response, but the whole point is if we’re dumping so much money, resources, destroying the environment, and consumer electronics market for these tools, you shouldn’t have to explain it like it’s five.

Seriously what is the point of trashing the planet for this shit if you have to talk to it like it’s the most oblivious person alive and practically hold it’s hand for it to understand implicit concepts?

I mean, I’ve been saying this since LLMs were released.

We finally built a computer that is as unreliable and irrational as humans… which shouldn’t be considered a good thing.

I’m under no illusion that LLMs are “thinking” in the same way that humans do, but god damn if they aren’t almost exactly as erratic and irrational as the hairless apes whose thoughts they’re trained on.

Ha, nice. I’ll have to try to find the full copy to go along with my copy of Wizard People, Dear Reader.