Well, he does make stuff up, but it’s not malicious.

Mecha Hitler™ begs to differ

Literacy and programming are not equivalent. Nobody needs to learn how to code unless it's required for work. Even if AI made people able to read/write code, it would not be much of a net positive to society as there's no indication that the demand for programmers will increase as well. If anything, AI agents/chatbots would be able to replace some categories of software (like search engines), and would thus decrease the amount of software that needs to be written overall.

I bet if you went back a few decades to the pre-internet era and showed someone wikipedia, they'd come to similar lofty conclusions about how everyone will be able to become an expert in anything. Not to discount Wikipedia's value today, but we aren't living in a post-ignorance society where everyone knows everything.

If you're going to join the AI circlejerk, at least make sure you don't have erectile dysfunction.

Don't use Mint or Ubuntu, use Bazzite. It actually is "just works" with the added benefit of "you can't break it". It's perfect for both beginners and experienced users who are looking to do work rather than tinker with their OS.

And if you have a graphics card (which you probably do since you mentioned gaming), Bazzite comes with Nvidia or AMD drivers preinstalled, so you don't have to do anything extra to get it to work.

But if you really want to follow the YT influencer Linux memes, at least go with Ubuntu instead of Mint. Mint is just Ubuntu with a different default desktop, but worse in every other way less reliable (edit: toned down the exaggeration)

They're a lobbyist for giant publishers. They work really hard to prevent regulating loot boxes/gambling, console jailbreaking, and are behind pretty much any evil thing the industry does. If they were in the EU, they'd no doubt fight against the stop killing games initiative too.

Fuck the ESA

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. By "the commenter" do you mean the human or the AI in the screenshot?

Also,

For instance, many SoTA models are trained using reinforcement learning, so it’s plausible that its learned that spamming meaningless tokens can delay negative reward

What's a "negative reward"? You mean a penalty? First of all, I don't believe this makes sense either way because if the model was producing garbage tokens, it would be obvious and caught during training.

But even if it wasn't, and it did in fact generate a bunch of garbage that didn't print out in the Claude UI, and the explanation of "simulated progress" was the AI model coming up with a plausible explanation for the garbage tokens, it still does not make it sentient (or even close).

I hate that normies are going to read this and come away with the impression that Claude really is a sentient being that thinks and behaves like a human, even doing relatable things like pretending to work and fessing up when confronted.

This response from the model is not a reflection of what actually happened. It wasn't simulating progress because it underestimated the work, it just hit some unremarkable condition that resulted in it halting generation (it's pointless to speculate why without internal access, as these chatbot apps aren't even real LLMs, they're a big mashup of multiple models and more traditional non-ML tools/algorithms).

When given a new prompt from the user ("what's taking so long?") it just produced some statistically plausible text given the context of the chat, the question, and the system prompt Anthropic added to give it some flavor. I don't doubt that system prompt includes instructions like "you are a sentient being" in order to produce misleading crap like this response to get people to think AI is sentient, and feed the hype train that's pumping up their stock price.

/end-rant

De Moraes said Bolsonaro’s tampering with his monitor fed his suspicions that he would attempt to flee the country in “the confusion that would be caused by a demonstration organized by his son," according to The Associated Press.

Looks like it's time for another arrest

It's incredible, and unique in that nobody else is really making those types of games, and it has AAA-tier production values.

How common was cocaine in 1950s France?

Two of them just look like dog food

I recently (a few months ago) built a new high-end server for my homelab, and bought 512GB of DDR4 ECC RAM for around $510. I just looked it up, and those exact same modules are around $2.5k to $3.5k for the same amount. That's more than I paid for the entire machine.