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.

You should submit this as a post. Or I might just repost it. It’s insightful!

I really dig the explanation of how the two parties have kind of worked for so long, in spite of everything, and now that balance is disrupted since the “cranks” moved to one party.

Except Russia is not the military power Nazi Germany was.

Lets say he takes over Ukraine. Horrific… but that’s not some huge economic windfall. If Russia tries to invade a NATO country in the next few decades, even with America totally out of the pictue, they’d get theit butts handed to them.

Only way it works is if China backs the heck out of Russia. Which is theoretically plausible if America is “defeated” I guess.

Vance is an opportunist, and dangerously smart and eloquent. That’s actually a huge positive over Trump, I really hate we have such an actual gullible idiot in office.

Problem is I don’t really understand what is actual political beliefs are. It feels like he’s just a sycophant in interviews, given his history.

He’s hitched himself to the MAGA train, but if, say, he was president with basically no opposition and Trump dead, what would he do?

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.

No, because Dems are stuck on a high horse and burned 1 billion campaigning like its the 1950s. Fff, they could have won the election spending a tenth of that on bots and paying off influencers.

We absolutely need money for a shameless ‘oppositional’ propaganda apparatus.

And social media feeds.

How much you wanna bet this guy scrolls facebook a ton? Or listens to railing radio/podcasts on drives? This opinion didn’t spawn from a vacuum.

They should be following up and asking him where he got those ideas.

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

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.

as opposed to trying desperately to find your article as you scroll and having pop ups and other things interrupt you as you read

Joke’s on the websites, as I run Cromite, so no pop ups or anything.

…But also, most of the written web is trash now.

:(

the YouTube experience is far less annoying on average.

Are you sure about that?

I opened YT links without premium on a new browsers and holy moly! I got 1-3 minute unskippable ads every time.

I immediately clicked them off, of course.

GN is indeed a rare outlier. They’re like an oldschool tech site that rose at the exact right time to grow up on YouTube.

Oh my… is no one going to learn from Trump?

The best insult to people like this is to actively ignore them. The best protest would be to just drop and block conversations with anyone who mentions the words “Nick Fuentes”

And our site was like the opposite. Uh… let’s just say many Lemmy users wouldn’t like its editor, but he did not hold back gut punches, and refused to watch his site turn into a clickbait farm.