Historically, the only thing Oracle ever made which was good was their database, and even that is only worth it beyond a certain size of dataset and number of simultaneous requests being served.

Nah, there’s inherent dangers in humans eating humans, such as prions.

Best cut the rich into little pieces, feed them to pigs and then eat the pigs.

It’s still 5€ per month.

It’s all bread & circus and they’re cutting down on the bread.

They probably told the bot to combat anti-semitism so the bot ended up combating the propaganda of the very people associating Jewisheness with being pro-Genocide.

I like to think most modern men wouldn’t actually describe an attractivr woman as nothing more than a sex doll.

Might be wrong, though.

As soon as the same rules they want to apply to everybody else are applied to Fascists, they’re immediately convinced they’re victims.

So yeah, as soon as the pretty little Fascist ends up treated as a pussy-with-legs with no upsides for herself (so, not a trade but a taking by people with more power than she has) even though she’s ben part of making sure that legally there is no such thing as sexual harassment, she’ll feel like a victim.

There are people whose entire modus operandi is to not give a shit about others in their choices and actions, apologize when challenged about it and carry on doing the same.

Their “apologizing” is just a confrontation-avoidance technique, not a genuine expression of regret.

The common language concept of AI (i.e. AGI), sure it will one day happen.

This specific avenue of approaching that problem ending up being the one that evolves all the way to AGI, that doesn’t seem at all likely - its speed of improvement has stalled, it’s unable to do logic and it has the infamous hallucinations, so all indications is that it’s yet another dead-end.

Mind you, plenty of dead-ends in this domain ended up being useful - for example the original Neural Networks architectures were good enough for character recognition and enabled things like automated mail sorting - however this bubble on this specific generation of machine learning architectures seems to have been way too disproportionate to how far it has turned out that this generation can go.

The twist is that it’s a German Humoristic tale.

I’m not making an argument against it, just clarifying were it sits as technology.

As I see it, it’s like electric cars - a technology that was overtaken by something else in the early days when that domain was starting even though it was the first to come out (the first cars were electric and the ICE engine was invented later) and which has now a chance to be successful again because many other things have changed in the meanwhile and we’re a lot closes to the limits of the tech that did got widely adopted back in the early days.

It actually makes a lot of sense to improve the speed of what programming can do by getting it to be capable of also work outside the step-by-step instruction execution straight-jacked which is the CPU/GPU clock.

FPGAs have been a thing for ages.

If I remember it correctly (I learned this stuff 3 decades ago) they were basically an improvement on logic circuits without clocks (think stuff like NAND and XOR gates - digital signals just go in and the result comes out on the other side with no delay beyond that caused by analog elements such as parasitical inductances and capacitances, so without waiting for a clock transition).

The thing is, back then clocking of digital circuits really took off (because it’s WAY simpler to have things done one stage at a time with a clock synchronizing when results are read from one stage and sent to the next stage, since different gates have different delays and so making sure results are only read after the slowest path is done is complicated) so all CPU and GPU architecture nowadays are based on having a clock, with clock transitions dictating things like when is each step of processing a CPU/GPU instruction started.

Circuits without clocks have the capability of being way faster than circuits with clocks if you can manage the problem of different digital elements having different delays in producing results I think what we’re seeing here is a revival of using circuits without clocks (or at least with blocks of logic done between clock transitions which are much longer and more complex than the processing of a single GPU instruction).

They definitely used to go down, just not since Bitcoin morphed into a speculative mania.

I remember Xilinx from way back in the 90s when I was taking my EE degree, so they were hardly a fledgling in 2019.

Not disputing your overall point, just that detail because it stood out for me since Xilinx is a name I remember well, mostly because it’s unusual.

That probably also means that when the trend reverses it will turn into a rout.

Whilst it’s my impression that the Left tends to have more people who challenge such thinking, I would say that the phenomenom of Tankies shows that part of the Left are just as purelly tribalist as the Far Right.

That said, Liberal and Left aren’t the same thing and, at least judging by the posts I see in Lemmy from American Democrat Party supporters, most are just as tribalist as the Republicans, just loyal to a different tribe. Similarly those whose take on Equality is that it’s a war of identities are hugelly tribalist: I don’t think you can go around seeing people as being divided in groups defined by genetics alone (rather than, say, individual behaviour) and claim that people from certain genetically-defined groups are inherently good or bad, without being a tribalist.

In my observation its pretty common for uncritical bubbles to form around “Identities” because criticism of the structure, fairness or effectiveness of the general ideolical thinking itself is quickly branded as an insult to the Identity and all people deemed to belong to it, and this happens just as much with the Fascist “identities” (such as how criticizing the Israeli Genocide, that is labelled anti-semitism) as with the Neoliberal “identities” (such as how if you point out the unequal treatement of men and women in Courts when it comes to custody of the children on a divorce, that is label anti-Women).

Amongst people with Liberal-leanings I would say that maybe the ones who are also Left-leaning or those whose Liberalism is pure (i.e. genuinelly about Freedom equally for all, which curiously also makes them a lot more Left since Money and Ownership in our society de facto control most Freedom) are the ones with less tendency to be tribalist. Then again, that’s a pretty sophisticated political position to take and I don’t really think there is any big group out there pushing it as a “packaged” slogan-heavy full ideology, so maybe those people just don’t have much of a tribe to feel like they belong to.

It’s not just the Fascist Far-Right who exploit the human tendency for Tribalism, the Neoliberal Far-Right does it too, they just mix it a bit more with exploiting other cognitive weaknesses in human beings.

That said, the latter political group did fail miserably in getting people to feel like the Healthcare Insurer CEO “is one of us” and Luigi “is one of them” possibly because all the usual group definitions the Neolibs tried to push to get people into group-oriented thinking on the side of the CEO (strivers vs skivers, family man vs lone wolf and so on - just read the newspaper articles and you’ll spot the framing) failed as people already felt more like the victims of businesses like Healthcare Insurance than “winners” of the profits such business make.

When “they” make a statement it’s bad, when “we” make a statement it’s good.

It’s pretty standard tribalist thinking.

Whilst not at all exclusive to people of the Far Right (it’s a natural tendency in all of us which, IMHO, we need to be alert for and stop it when it pops up in ourselves), tribalism it is the core (maybe even the entire foundation) of Far Right authoritarian “ideologies” (the non-authoritarian ones, like Neoliberalism, also exploit other human cognitive weaknesses).

Yeah, but the Rogers is trully jolly .

Yeah, but the coke isn’t car friendly, probably because you end up with white powder everywhere.