Quote from: RE on Oct 03, 2026, 01:35 PM

RE

Gotta say RE, that one on the right? Having seen more than a few of your videos and pictures of yourself back when you were semi-ambulatory......are you sure this isn't you and some of the gang at the medical Gulag you are in?

There will be blood on the floor.

Mostly retirement accounts.  The doom loop, explained at the end.

A nice and highly informative thing to watch while I orchestrate one agent to work on another using both of the Diners video cards.  The Agent that will take over the world will come out of this effort.

Also upped an E-Bay bid on an RTX 4080 16GB video card while it played.  Crazy when you think about the number of GPUs now mothballed in data centers.  Known to be mothballed, as the power footprint is not would it would be if over half were not mothballed.  The 4080 will be used if I get it for sure.  I can't wait until the bubble bursts.  I may not last that long, but when it does I want something that will make a RTX 4080 16 GB look like a tricycle racing a bike used in the Tour de France.

Too Big to Bail

RE

Quote from: KdogI only have 32GB of VRAM so the summary waits because my AI and I are busy working on taking over the worid right now.

RE & Kdog try to take over the WORLD!

RE

'Wow, these seem really powerful. Maybe I should consider this investment.'

And the investment money also knows that all this is going to be Too big to fail.  It fails we bail.

And it is not artificial intelligence exactly FYI.  'AI' is actually only a prediction machine that uses math and billions of numbers that represetnt a world state.  To make it 'think' The AI prediction machine has to be in a loop, where results are observed and evaluated.  The agentic loop.  The intelligence is an illusion.

Money, in contrast does have real genuine artificial intelligence.  Intelligent metal, unlike intelligent sand, has the ability to use the brains of real people the way we use an model AI on a terminal.  We use sand refined to pure silicon, and money uses the organic molecules of people refined to raw greed.  Humans, the real thing.

I like our AI generated article summaries because right now they have a certain 'purity'.  They are not generated in a loop.  I use a particular model and it is given general instructions on how to produce the summary which only uses article contents.  It is more like snapping a photo than actually writing about what is in the article.   Think about it, a photo is a summary.  It has taken in the environment, and summarized it with some loss of information.  Not much different, and the system prompt (instructions) that does it is the lens.

Great website, this was there too.  Very revealing, and for the same social reasons the article discusses is why I do the Diner.  I am not a Substack Drone, or a Discord Drone, and certainly not a Facebook Drone, or any other censored drone on a homogenized Mickey-Ds platform. "Better to Reign in Hell, Than Serve in Heaven" doncha know.  And I do not confuse pride and freedom in that statement.  Can't serve good, when good really it isn't.  To actually decide what is good, you must be the ruler of yourself.


This is an article where the fact that it is more than a year old means nothing at all.

The hype works because the warnings aren't dissuading investors from putting their money into AI, says Widder, the professor at the University of Texas in Austin. "I think they're hearing that and going, 'Wow, these seem really powerful. Maybe I should consider this investment.'"

Which of course sells particularly well to the Military mindset.  "Think of how many people it can KILL!  I want one of those!"

RE

Quote from: K-Dog on Oct 03, 2026, 10:35 PMYou need a personal digital assistant so they can charge you for one.  You get a digital slave, and you become a real one. 

I don't need a personal digital assistant. So they can't charge me for one. My digital slave is called a "computer", and does all the calculations and stuff I tell it to do. Good 'nuff.

The fundamental problem is that Capitalism is incapable of providing Affordable Housing for people with incomes near or below the Poverty Line in a given market.  The better the area is for finding employment that will pay a higher salary, the more Rentiers will charge for living in that neighborhood.  The wealth generated in the neighborhood by commerce gets extracted by those who own or build & sell the housing.  The highest profit margin comes from building houses for the highest earrners and as geographical space gets scarce through growth of the population, the low income population is squeezed out of the market.

The problem has been growing incrementally since the 1980s and reached a crisis ppoint in the last decade.  The only solution now is a massive public works program to build new housing with prices tied to the income level of poverty level people, but this has been perpetually opposed by the industry as too Socialist.  The question now is if there is sufficient popular support to overcome the Rentier political power.  Then comes the problem of how to finance it and where to build it.

Obviously, this isn't just a problem in Spain, it's systemic through all the industrialized countries.  Depending on how much success they have there, it should spread to other countries.  It has the potential at least to recharge a genuine Workers movement on an international basis.

RE

Quote from: K-Dog on Oct 03, 2026, 10:35 PMYou need a personal digital assistant so they can charge you for one.

All these folks terrified of AI!  Just don't buy it!  Bye Bye Financial Model.  I don't use Facebook, now I have another product I won't use.

RE

You need a personal digital assistant so they can charge you for one.  You get a digital slave, and you become a real one.  Then they can watch everything you do too.  That info is money to them, you become their cash cow. 

You pay them and they rent your ass out.  Money for nothin is the Merican way.  Or at least dreams of it.  The idea that money is actually frozen labor is soooo yesterday.  Sugarplums and gingerbread dreams, crypto replaces labor.  And they two-time your ass because you worked for their money, and they want it now.  You have had their money long enough.


Convenience is an easy sell.  For a little convenience Americans are willing to sell close relatives.  Convenience is status.  Joe six pack agrees.  Joe will kill for convenience.   Convenience is addictive, and AI is the Swiss Army Knife of lazy.

* On the other hand, taming the tiger is great fun.