source: ML guy i know so this could be entirely unsubstantiated but apparently the main environmental burden of LLM infrastructure comes from training new models not serving inference from already deployed models.

very normal thing to order

i disagree and i think this website tends to fall into jeune-ecoleism whether it be about drones or hypersonic missiles vs surface assets.

for the role you mention specifically, using drones for an air superiority fighter has a couple major problems. firstly is input lag; there is a significant delay from operator input, to the drone reacting because of latency. secondly it’s possible to disrupt the link between drone and controller. These can be solved with autonomous control systems but these will never be as smart or as flexible as a human in the pilots seat. in terms of anti drone airspace denial, all the regular a2/ad countermeasures work against large drones. for small observation drones, large SAMs aren’t worth it and have trouble picking them up on radar but various gun systems can do the job perfectly well. if you want a drone swarm, you need small drones, that means small payloads and short range which makes them counterable by gun systems. electronic warfare, hacking and jamming can be extremely effective against drones, something like 90% of ukrainian drone attacks are unsuccessful.

in ukraine specifically you have to bear in mind that drones make their own propaganda. every drone records its flight, and most are commercial and directly designed to upload and share that footage, so its only a couple clicks from the battlefield to some gore video on twitter. all other elements need to explicitly add a camera somewhere, record that footage, transfer it to a computer, and then upload it. thats another massive filter right there.

so we see a much larger share of drones action in the war than any other weapon(-s system), distorting our view.

weaponised drones further distort it: an unsuccessful attack has no significant cost, you just don’t upload it. or for FPV drones where you cant see the aftermath either way, you can still upload it and claim it a success regardless of if you destroyed your target. this further inflates their importance, because people will think they do much more damage than they actually did.

it may well be the case that drones are the future of air superiority but they are not the near future of air superiority and that’s a very relevant distinction for most DoDs.

i think the left has been reflexively anti-LLMs because they haven’t been up until recently worth the squeeze, they’re emblematic of the continued ignorance of the climate crisis, the worst techbros you know are all in on them, and they’re antithetical to the intentionalist view of art, and it’s a convenient excuse to cut down on labour costs which are all imo perfectly good reasons to dislike LLMs but i think people are a bit blind to how accurate they’ve become and still have a view of their tendency to hallucinate based on GPT-3.5 and the memes about google’s search summary being confidently incorrect, the latter which is representative of the absolute cheapest bottom of the barrel LLM google has (gemini-flash) and not SOTA which admittedly google has not really pushed.

thinking of some tweet i saw maybe like two weeks ago about how chinese genshin’s worldbuilding is because everything is extremely bureaucratic and un-feudal

new zealand is super suburban/rural, basically wellington and auckland’s cbd are like the only urban areas of the country so yeah.

good catch actually, idk what’s censored but i should have added CSA. my bad.

i think what stands out the worst personally is just gaiman’s recurring disposition of being all ‘uwu sowwy for sexually assaulting you can we talk 🥺’

yeah, i mean if it makes you anxious then it clearly is worse for you! i don’t want to come off as minimising your struggles, just that examination methods should probably be more flexible in general.

i’m not sure that i agree that oral exams are inherently bad, i just think they need to be taken with the instructor having a spirit of charitability and recognising that students can’t remember every little detail. evidently this wasn’t the case with you but the typical exam paper format isn’t very good for neurodivergent students either in a very different way, like i’d always do awfully in exams by my standards so obviously i’d be more inclined to think that format is worse than oral.

i mean i thought marioslop would flop too and people still gaslit themselves into thinking it was a good movie so idk at this point. still probably, like, team ‘minecraft will flop’ purely because i feel like i haven’t seen anyone sincerely say they thought the trailers were good but at the same time it’s possible enough people just watch it regardless it succeeds.

dunno if anyone saw but noahpinion finally outed himself as the bloodthirsty ghoul he is on twt recently

Honestly I’d argue being open to feedback is the primary requirement to succeeding at…well most anything long-term. So it’s not exactly a small difference

i think people of almost every political position like to flatter themselves by saying they’re uniquely receptive to feedback and new information and therefore a superior critical thinker. like, saying it does not make it so.

not being misogynistic is generally a good thing and it’s more controllable on our end. this is a bit of an odd thing to suggest, other factors may play a part but that’s not a good reason to not try crack down on such behaviour.

you could have an entirely different meaning of course but i think misguided seems to imply some sort of normative commitment here.

sorry, is this directed at me? because i don’t see any issue with the changes.

based on the timing of this i feel like the gender demos survey had a hand in these measures being implemented too, right?

hi it’s me i’m that man! (not offline though)

a lot of libs who are ideologically committed to being libs were affluent and got good grades in school. being a liberal isn’t a reflection of your intelligence it’s about socioeconomic status, there are plenty of ‘smart’ liberals.

it’s slightly cope to say that the iraqi army was incompetent imo

like it was probably about as good as the nva, coalition just had an enormous advantage in sensors tech. proto-digital army vs analog army

is this new jocat discourse leaking onto chapo.chat