Remember how great Brexit was, they say.

The biotech industry is already extremely nervous: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/rfk-jr-uncertainty-biotech-startups

They don’t like this at all, with the hope being RFK just focuses on other stuff.

Or… it could make investor money fly away and collapse the US biotech industry. Great.

What on Earth is the NIH thinking right now?

I mean, what if an moon landing skeptic took over NASA? It’s like that. They literally produce this mountain of evidence and organize this stuff, and… yeah.

Don’t jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

I’d posit the algorithm has turned it into a monster.

Attention should be dictated more by chronological order and what others retweet, not what some black box thinks will keep you glued to the screen, and it felt like more of the former in the old days. This is a subtle, but also very significant change.

On the other hand, the track record of old social networks is not great.

And it’s reasonable to posit Twitter is deep into the enshitifiication cycle.

The localllama/local LLM community ridicules AMD basically every single day.

They have the hardware. They have 90% of the software. Then they waste it with absolutely nonsensical business decisions, like they are actively trying to avoid the market.

2 phone calls from Lisa Su (one to OEMs lifting VRAM restriction, another to engineers yelling “someone fix these random bugs with flash attention and torchetune , now,”) would absolutely revolutionize the AI space, just to start… and apparently they couldn’t care less. It’s mind boggling.

Still perfectly runnable in kobold.cpp. There was a whole community built up around with Pygmalion.

It is as dumb as dirt though. IMO that is going back too far.

People still run or even continue pretrain llama2 for that reason, as its data is pre-slop.

One good thing that may come of Trump is shaking a lot of complacency out of other countries. Maybe even hurting the far right in them, once the population gets a lot of exposure to full MAGA.

The facebook/mastadon format is much better for individuals, no? And Reddit/Lemmy for niches, as long as they’re supplemented by a wiki or something.

And Tumblr. The way content gets spread organically, rather than with an algorithm, is actually super nice.

IMO Twitter’s original premise, of letting novel, original, but very short thoughts fly into the ether has been so thoroughly corrupted that it can’t really come back. It’s entertaining and engaging, but an awful format for actually exchanging important information, like discord.

This is called prompt engineering, and it’s been studied objectively and extensively. There are papers where many different personas are benchmarked, or even dynamically created like a genetic algorithm.

You’re still limited by the underlying LLM though, especially something so dry and hyper sanitized like OpenAI’s API models.

To add to this:

All LLMs absolutely have a sycophancy bias. It’s what the model is built to do. Even wildly unhinged local ones tend to ‘agree’ or hedge, generally speaking, if they have any instruction tuning.

Base models can be better in this respect, as their only goal is ostensibly “complete this paragraph” like a naive improv actor, but even thats kinda diminished now because so much ChatGPT is leaking into training data. And users aren’t exposed to base models unless they are local LLM nerds.

I don’t know when the goal post got moved

Ken Paxton, at least?

Yeah.

Avatar’s obsession with realistic body movement is an exception, but even if you look at stuff with heavy fighting like DCAU, it feels more “grounded” while anime feels more “dramatic.” These aren’t the exact adjectives I’m looking for, but maybe you get what I mean, and Castlevania and DOTA both veer towards the middle.

DOTA’s plot is kinda over the top, but somehow I feel the writing and general feel is more “western,” though looking like LoK may have biased me some. Actually this is probably a bad example.

Castlevania, the way characters move, its drawn, just the general feel of the drama feels more “anime” to me.

In terms of my opinion, maybe its more accurate to state they both straddle the line.

I watched castlevania, and I liked it fine, but in terms of style/tropes it feels more anime than western anime to me.

Look into western anime like Arcane, Avatar, DOTA: Dragon’s blood, things like that.

It doesn’t feel so… anime. And some of them have legit amazing and “grounded” character design, movement, expressiveness and such.

What about ‘western’ anime? Think Legend of Korra, or even less ‘2D’ but still highly stylized ones like Arcane.

I saw a Brexit meme awhile back, of America going “hold my beer.”

Well, the UK is holding our beer now. Here we go!