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jmoiron/gcyr-extras main 0b7c833 update the ow gas miner recipe to not be worse than a basic lv single block you get in early game.. the real point of this is to mine stars and gas giants but that has to be up to modpack authors
jmoiron/quantum-skies master 09a9ba0 make EV rocket engine use titanium gears and IV rocket engine use WFe
jmoiron/quantum-skies master 66077ac remove low grade naq ore from inner planets, adjust rocket tier reqs for outer planets
@jmoiron.bsky.social Finally completed my "virtual cycling trip" from Torre de Belem in Lisbon to Plaza de España in Sevilla.
I plotted a cycling route on Google Maps and loaded it into incyclist.com Quite a few backroads had no coverage, but overall it was a fun way to gamify some exercise.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: OTOH, if inference is already a bad business how are bigger models going to make it better? Not that it's surprising for delusional SV narcissists to play roulette with the entire US economy, but if this is true and it all blows up, I don't see what distinguishes it from eg. FTX.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: If inference is already super profitable then I don't understand why the practice around quotas is so vague and they've been pulling back access consistently over the past few years. That feels a lot more like a company tuning for profitability/oversubscription.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Unlike "How will AI impact jobs?", the answers to these questions are knowable; there are people who know them already!
But without data, their claims are indistinguishable from the kinds of misinformation you get from elusive marketing speak or the overconfident vibes of laypeo...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: There are other basic questions that are frustratingly inconclusive, too. I don't buy LLMs as a path to AGI, personally, but have we hit the scaling wall yet?
There is a long history of blog posts claiming we have! GPT-5 leads me to suspect we have. But I don't really know.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I don't think everyone would be rushing to build more expensive frontier models if the current inference business model didn't work.
But if you listen to their rhetoric, they are insistent on the valuation friendly story that the hockey stick continues far into the future.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It's not obvious to me which of these is correct.
Attempts to quantify inference costs in the general media seem to fall victim to overly simplistic cost modeling or to confuse API price for cost:
martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I've seen people very confidently claim two opposing narratives on inference:
* AI inference is in a VC backed burn phase and the real cost of inference requires pricing people won't pay
* AI inference prints money and AI company burn rate is mostly due to training new frontier ...
reposted @bryanl.dev: If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: It's like a war movie in that sense.
I was 16 when I came out and I was easily fooled by its rebellious anti-consumerism into viewing project mayhem as a valiant struggle.
Fully understanding it in my 20s and reckoning with my failure informed how carefully I navigate political...