> Why? Why currently prevents you from being more efficient and streaming your display from the cloud?

Latency. 120ms extra latency makes many games uncomfortable, and some of them entirely unplayable.

It isn’t, of course, but people who say so generally get tarred as lunatics of one brand or another.

The CEOs? You can’t get to those positions without a lot of luck and a skewed sense of probability.

It's hard for me to imagine how machine learning Nobel Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton, someone who is openly warning about extinction risk from AI, is some insane crank on the topic of... machine learning.

Same goes for Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, AI tech CEOs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, etc. who have all said this technology could literally murder everyone.

What are we even doing here?

Oh don’t get me started. I have a friend who jumped on that scene…

Well, six years after he bought it the bike’s frame cracked in half as he was parking it. Somehow he avoided that happening in traffic.

There’s no way my proxy binary actually requires 25GB of code, or even the 3GB it is. Sounds to me like the answer is a tree shaker.

Google implemented the C++ equivalent of a tree shaker in their build system around 2009.

the front-end services to be "fast" AFAIK probably include nearly all the services you need to avoid hops -- so you can't really shake that much away.

Would be unpleasant, but asphyxiating from gradual CO2 increase isn’t really possible unless you’re dead drunk.

Your body measures CO2 (not O2), and will escalate to full-blown panic will before it’s particularly dangerous. You’d leave on your own.

A thank-you letter is hardly a horrible outcome.

Nobody sent a thank you letter to anyone. A person started a program that sent unsolicited spam. Sending spam is obnoxious. Sending it in an unregulated manner to whoever is obnoxious and shitty.

So you haven't seen the models (by direction of the Effective Altruists at AI Digest/Sage) slopping out poverty elimination proposals and spamming childcare groups, charities and NGOs with them then? Bullshit asymmetry principle and all that.

It actually is pretty bad, the person might read it and appreciate, only to realize moments later that it was a thoughtless machine sending him the letter rather than a real human being, which then robs them of the feeling and leaves in a worse spot than before reading the letter

> only to realize moments later that it was a thoughtless machine sending him the letter rather than a real human being

Yeah, realizing that thoughtless machines are still more thankful that real human beings would make me depressed.

It’s not a thank you letter. It’s AI slop.

2-3x absolute. And of course they make a lot of our goods.

You do. You have the power. Please stop using it.

Before people chime in to claim "That isn't what we meant"...

DLSS and Cycles denoising are, well, denoising. It's the same process as denoising in Stable Diffusion, essentially, and was trained in the same way.

Radiation from coal goes into the air and tailings, which aren’t well controlled, and stays dangerous for centuries.

Radiation from nuclear waste is constrained to steel casks in cooling ponds, and the waste can be reprocessed for use in breeder reactors instead of letting it sit.

Well we've had them since the 1950s, where are all these terrorist attacks? The only nuclear disasters have been accidental, and those were made worse by early reactor designs that didn't account for safety to the degree necessary.

The Twin Towers were attacked almost 30 years after.