Yeah, then they have to limit the entrance to the school, add wait times to get in because of processing, and it gives a convenient mass of students for wannabe shooters

If you’re running rootless containers, it’s less of a concern. I’m trying to move all of my public containers to podman for this reason

He’s VERY soft on crime, implementing cashless bail for many offenses.

Whoops, looks like you put a good thing in you list of bad things.

Fuck the prison industrial system, and the poor tax that is bail.

That makes more sense, thanks for expanding on your point.

Like I said, I mainly take issue with describing it as ‘understanding’ due to the connotations it gives off. I’m used to AI glazers using the same wordings and actually try to make the argument there is an understanding behind the statistical probabilities.

My point is that saying an LLM understands anything is anthropomorphizing the LLM and leads people into thought patterns that give it an inordinate amount of authority because people equate the simulacrum of understanding/comprehension with actual understanding.

I think we just fundamentally disagree on the concept of llms a being able to understand a topic rather than it being a shallow statistical prediction if the correct answer, and I just can’t equate understanding with statistical predictions. The fact that the underlying math is able to generalize the prediction in novel ways lends weight to the misbelief that it understands concepts, but the decoherence that happens over long conversations should shatter the illusion.

Who has enough money and is motivated to wage a faux grass roots campaign to kill AI data centers?

AI scammers are using AI to generate anti-datacenter slop. Because they get money from engagement. - 404media

But the cast majority of the backlash is more organic than not, since they’re just jumping on the bandwagon

I don’t see it.

Cuz you’re looking at the wrong side of the money

While I agree on the second paragraph, I’m gonna argue about the first, partially because I think the second invalidates the first.

These models do have some form of understanding though. There are features for bugs and typos, and general features that map descriptions and pieces of code.

The models don’t understand anything, they have rules that allow for finding tokens that don’t belong and fuzzy match to correct tokens (typos) and the ability to find code that breaks known rules for a language. That is no more understanding the problem than my spelling or grammar checking understands the comment I’m writing. ‘Understanding’ something requires intelligence and the ability to learn something and incorporate that knowledge into itself and use it to better process that information, not just finding tokens that break rules.

It understands the code in so far it helps with next token prediction.

And this is the crux of my beef, I think, because stochastic pattern matching is not understanding, it’s a mathematical representation of how the model processes your input tokens. The fact that it has to start over every time you provide it input, and uses the previous input/output tokens as context is why this is not ‘understanding’, it’s just fancy token prediction that gives a middling-to-passable facsimile to intelligence and understanding things.

The problems you note in your second paragraph fundamentally undermine the argument that there is any form of understanding to the AI, because those are basic mistakes that a trivial understanding of the problem would prevent.

You have to schedule an appointment and have a professional remove it, and who knows how long they might make you wait. It’s probably not that common, but I’ve heard of them becoming slightly displaced and “stabbing” people.

Yeah… as a dude who has broken two of them (different partners), I’ve been told its not a pleasant experience. Thankfully, both partners were able to get in to see their providers pretty quickly, so they didn’t have to deal with it for very long.

I still get shit about that from my wife lol…

Does a dev really need to understand the code if the AI understands it?

That if is doing a lot of lifting here, because AI doesn’t understand anything, it only finds mathematical responses to your question. There’s a reason the AI can’t give you the same script twice (or it constantly rewrites the fucking thing instead of just fixing the thing I told it to)

It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I’ll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly

I look forward to seeing the follow up comment where you do the same with one of those when they inevitably do the same

Could this be like the BS we were seeing earlier in the year on one of the meme comms (I think) where users would post something, then delete their account afterwards, nuking the whole thread.

Sure, but their point still stands. You can easily make the argument that the backlash against AI and datacenters is specifically driven by people with

jobs to keep, bills to pay, groceries to buy and perhaps even think of the environment

And I don’t see how the backlash is inorganic. You have a new tech being shoved down peoples’ throats that is dog shit at most tasks and passable at some, which is being used to justify layoffs, make workers that keep their jobs work harder, drives up electricity costs, made computer parts unreasonably expensive, uses stupid amounts of power and water to train and outright takes any digital data not nailed down to increase the training data so it can generate shit like revenge porn, deep fakes and CSAM on major social media sites.

If anything, I’m honestly surprised the backlash isn’t stronger and more widespread. But given the politicians this country is electing, I can only assume it’s because a large fraction of us are dumber than fucking bricks and brainlessly parrot anything their media daddies tell them.

Because (generic) you have no right to your child’s information when attending higher learning institutions, no matter your child’s age per FERPA. As it was explained to me, when attending higher learning institutions, it’s understood that the child is basically an adult and should be treated as such, which affords them the right to privacy, even from their parents. They can authorize you if they so choose, but it’s their choice.

Having heard the arguments I got from helicopter parents, it’s much needed. The amount of grief I got from assholes who couldn’t be bothered to talk to their kids was insane (especially the kids who had a note on their account to not let anyone do phone resets because parents were willing to impersonate their kid to IT to break into their account)

AI companies paid him off

Coming from someone over a decade past helldesk work, it wasn’t a typo.

My favorite were university parents who were so sure they were legally allowed to look into their (under 18) kid’s grades and shit, and really did not appreciate that we did not give a fuck who they were if we didn’t have sign off from the student (and even then, we told them to fuck off and go to the admin building cuz we ain’t authorized to give you access to a fucking thing).

Supporters say the measure tackles the problem before a downloadable file becomes an untraceable weapon. Everytown for Gun Safety says recoveries of 3D-printed crime guns across 20 cities have risen nearly 1,000% over the past five years, and argues that cheaper, more capable printers are already being used in illegal ghost gun operations.

Ooooh, that’s two large red flags for me (disregarding the litany of red flags the concept in general has). Every town being involved makes me question the data on its face, given the number of times I saw gang violence near a school out of school hours listed as a school shooting in their database, as does a large percentage increase with no hard numbers. If they recovered 1 gun last year and 11 this year, that’s a 1000% increase, but the percentage sounds so much worse than the real number.

Washyoursister sauce?

You forgot about option 3: VC money ran out

Only if they’re not already focused on you. Once they are, trying to get away is likely to get you shot in the back when they fear for their lives because you’re running away or something.

Pride month is when tons of companies would performatively boast about how much they support pride, but with der fuhrer in the office, they’re not even going to put on the performance. Especially after Target pulled all public support because they faced a bit of backlash, and that was before the bullshit that’s happened in the last year.