I don’t think that the grid frequency is used for PC timekeeping. You have internal timekeeping circuits. AC power stops at the PSU, and I don’t think that there’s any cable over which a time protocol flows from the PSU to the motherboard.
Not sure what you mean but IIRC, he dropped out to start Facebook.
kagis
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Harvard University (dropped out)
Incidentally, some other prominent tech founders did the same. Off the top of my head:
Bill Gates (founder, Microsoft):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Harvard University (dropped out)
Michael Dell (founder, Dell Technologies):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell
University of Texas at Austin (dropped out)
Steve Wozniak (founder, Apple):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
University of Colorado Boulder (expelled)
He started Apple later, didn’t directly do it from college.
He did go back to university, years later, after he’d retired from Apple, and got his bachelor’s degree.
Yeah, in all honesty, it’s not really my ideal as a quote to capture the idea. Among other things, it’s comparing what is for the quoted person, household tasks and employment, whereas I’d generally prefer employment vs employment for most of these.
And for the quoted person, the issue is that AI is doing work that we tend to think of as potentially-desirable, rather than in the context I’m writing about, where it’s more that science fiction often portrays AI-driven sex robots that perform for humans (think Blade Runner or A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)), but doesn’t really examine humans performing for AIs.
Still, it was the closest popular quote I could think of to address the idea that the split between AI and human roles in a world with AIs is not that which we might have anticipated.
Fair enough. I will point out that for the context of my comment, this is probably functionally equivalent — that is, if one has a piece of software to walk the DHT and build a list of torrents on it, it’s probably still going to be done in a fully-automated fashion.
In the broad sense that understanding of spatial relationships and objects is just kind of limited in general with LLMs, sure, nature of the system.
If you mean that models simply don’t have a training corpus that incorporates adequate erotic literature, I suppose that it depends on what one is up to and the bar one has. No generative AI in 2025 is going to match a human author.
If you’re running locally, where many people use a relatively-short context size on systems with limited VRAM, I’d suggest a long context length for generating erotic literature involving bondage implements like chastity cages, as otherwise once information about the “on/off” status of the implement passes out of the context window, the LLM won’t have information about the state of the implement, which can lead to it generating text incompatible with that state. If you can’t afford the VRAM to do that, you might look into altering the story such that a character using such an item does not change state over the lifetime of the story, if that works for you. Or, whenever the status of the item changes, at appropriate points in the story, manually update its status in the system prompt/character info/world info/lorebook/whatever your frontend calls its system to inject static text into the context at each prompt.
My own feeling is that relative to current systems, there’s probably room for considerably more sophisticated frontend processing of objects, and storing state and injecting state about it efficiently into the system prompt. The text of a story is not an efficient representation of world state. Like, maybe use an LLM itself to summarize world state and then inject that summary into the context. Or, for specific games written to run atop an LLM, have some sort of Javascript module that runs in a sandbox, runs on each prompt and response to update its world state, and dynamically generates text to insert into the context.
I expect that game developers will sort a lot of this out and develop conventions, and my guess is that the LLM itself probably isn’t the limiting factor on this today, but rather how well we generate context text for it.
Even if they were wearing a mask, new, more-capable biometric analysis could often identify humans.
I have to say that the basic concept of having Meta pay human adult content performers to perform to teach an AI about sexual performance would be kind of surreal.
“So what do you do for work?”
“I’m an exotic dancer.”
“Straight or gay establishment?”
“Err…I perform for an artificial intelligence.”
You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
— Joanna Maciejewaska
I expect that Joanna would not be enthused about humans stripping for machines.
I’d have some questions about the structural integrity of that dryer.
billion dollar corporations
https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/marketcap/
Market capitalization of Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META)
Market cap: $1.955 Trillion USD
So in the technical sense that they’re worth more than a billion dollars, yes, but…
I suspect that if employees at Meta who are tasked with hoovering up training data from everywhere they can find are just watching porn, it probably won’t go over well on their annual reviews.
I would give good odds that the human at Meta most-closely responsible for the BitTorrent download at issue probably has never even seen this particular torrent by name or URL. The scope of data involved in training is too large for direct human involvement. They probably did something along the lines of writing a bot in Python or similar to spider websites and feed every torrent it could find into a torrent downloader. That downloader’s output then gets dumped into some massive internal collection of data that gets used by some other team as part of the training process. The humans just create tools and set them in motion, never actually see the overwhelming majority of the data that they’re processing.
I think that the broader concept of instilling desired ethics into an AI is part of the friendly AI problem, which is very real and serious — and possibly not reasonably solvable. So while I don’t really think that Cortana 2045 running around raping humans or something like that is very high on my likely risk list, I think that the broader problem that contains that particular issue probably is something that we’ll need to deal with.
[Pope Francis] went further in the 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, calling social media an “illusion of communication.”
There are probably a lot of criticisms one could make of this statement, but I think that a really good one is that the only reason I’m reading content from your papal encyclica is because it’s in an article that was submitted to a social media system.
The very first artificial general intelligence humanity created was born with an extensive understanding of breast jiggle.
The relentless pursuit of profit and growth ruins absolutely everything it touches. Capitalist rot.
The factor driving age verification has been laws passed by countries. It’s not private industry forcing it, but government. That comes from people complaining to their legislators that they are unhappy that their kids can see <random thing that they object to> online.
If you want a communist system, fine. But there are far too many users on here who, when faced with virtually anything they don’t like, immediately post a screed complaining about ownership of private industry, when it often has absolutely nothing to do with the actual issue at hand.
EDIT: I’d also add that there are actual solutions if you object to something like this. You can pass a law against biometric-based age validation, which I can certainly understand — that form could be prohibited. You could have some alternative form of age-based validation to be instituted to create a path of least resistance for services, like having government provide and fund a zero-knowledge service to confirm various facts to services like age. In countries which have constitutional law and a higher bar to modify it than lower law, you could pass a constitutional law against any form of age validation (“ageism has no place in our country”) to prevent legislators from easily passing things like age verification laws, which I personally don’t think will fly politically in most places, but it’s at least one theoretical option.
I would love to load up custom ROM though… What annoys me the most is lack of RTC battery, because the time resets whenever there’s a power outage.
They made an Internet-connected fridge and didn’t put an NTP client on it?
Ah, thanks! Well, that’s one lone ray of light.
I’m still grouchy about a sandwich place that I liked that recently changed ownership putting in kiosks that apparently do facial recognition, as once I walked up, they suggested items that I’d purchased last time. That started me looking, and I’ve been noticing that a lot of the ordering kiosks that places have been installing around where I am have cameras (though none have been actively making suggestions). I can only imagine that that gets hooked into the tracking and advertising system at some point too, though.
Between increasing use of facial recognition and ALPRs, it’s going to be increasingly difficult to avoid targeted ads. I don’t have a fix for that. I mean, it’s illegal to block use of ALPRs. A lot of places also have anti-masking laws, though I suspect that in practice, they aren’t enforced much, and someone could theoretically put something on their face. I don’t especially want to run around wearing stuff on my face, though.
kagis
It sounds like that was a joke from some years back.
Skyrim: Special Edition Announced For Samsung Smart Refrigerators And Alexa
If that headline has confused you then let’s be very clear, this is a joke by Bethesda…
They do have a screen and Internet connectivity, but I don’t think that ATMs are actually a great route (unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money, which I don’t think will fly and will cut into capacity). There isn’t much eyeball time on them. The reason a car or a refrigerator works is because you’re likely to be around it a lot.
I will say that the rise of gas pumps at gas stations that play back advertisements is pretty obnoxious, though.
I’d also bet against the CMOS battery, if the pre-reboot logs were off by 10 days.
The CMOS battery is used to maintain the clock when the PC is powered off. But he has a discrepancy between current time and pre-reboot logs. He shouldn’t see that if the clock only got messed up during the power loss.
I’d think that the time was off by 10 days prior to power loss.
I don’t know why it’d be off by 10 days. I don’t know uptime of the system, but that seems like an implausible amount of drift for a PC RTC, from what I see online as lilely RTC drift.
It might be that somehow, the system was set up to use some other time source, and that was off.
It looks like chrony is using the Debian NTP pool at boot, though, and I donpt know why it’d change.
Can DHCP serve an NTP server, maybe?
kagis
This says that it can, and at least when the comment was written, 12 years ago, Linux used it.
https://superuser.com/questions/656695/which-clients-accept-dhcp-option-42-to-configure-their-ntp-servers
My Debian trixie system has the ISC DHCP client installed in 2025, so might still be a factor. Maybe a consumer broadband router on your network was configured to tell the Proxmox box to use it as a NTP server or something? I mean, bit of a long shot, but nothing else that would change the NTP time source immediately comes to mind, unless you changed NTP config and didn’t restart chrony, and the power loss did it.