Tuesday, June 03
Daily News Stuff 3 June 2025
Archival Quality Edition
Archival Quality Edition
Top Story
- A pro-AI subreddit (one of the individual forums on the Reddit site) has started banning crazies who think the AI trees are talking to them. (404 Media)
The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning "a bunch of schizoposters” who believe "they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.
Yep, that sounds like Reddit alright."LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” one of the moderators of r/accelerate,wrote in an announcement. "There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
Oh. Those guys.
They are also crazy.
Tech News
- AMD's new 9060 XT could be 5% slower than Nvidia's 5060 Ti rather than 5% faster, according to leaked third-party benchmarks. (Tom's Hardware)
On the other hand, the 16GB 9060 XT at $349 is cheaper than even the 8GB model of the 5060 Ti at $379, making it the easy and obvious choice given that 8GB cards are terrible for recent games.
On the third hand, these MSRP numbers are all imaginary and we'll have to wait and see what is actually available.
- AMD meanwhile is trying to defend the existence of the 8GB model of the 9060 XT. (WCCFTech)
Both the current Xbox and PlayStation have 16GB of RAM, so games ported from consoles to PC very often want more than 8GB of video RAM to run smoothly, or sometimes to run at all, sometimes turning into slideshows at even modest settings, or simply crashing entirely.
Intel's B580 is not a fast card, but it does provide 12GB of VRAM at a nominal $249, something that neither Nvidia nor AMD can provide.
- After running 80,000 simulations across all available polling data, researchers have concluded that the Milky Way is less than 50% likely to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy over the next ten million years. (Science Alert)
They announced that it is more likely to collide with Hillary Clinton.
- The Liberux Nexx is a Linux-based smartphone with more-or-less adequate specs. (IndieGogo)
It has an Arm Cortex A76 chip, which ranks as "okay, I guess".
And flagship pricing - around $1500 during the pre-order stage and a proposed $2000 if it ever reached retail.
- It's a small world after all: The planet is in the midst of a climate catastrophe and here's Google doing Google things. (Notebook Check)
I'm not sure what exactly is going on at Notebook Check, but maybe someone should check on them.
Anyway, the reason I bring this nonsense to your attention is this:On May 20th 2025, MIT released an article breaking down the energy costs associated with each query run through a range of AI models, including Large Language Models (LLM) and image and video generators (Diffusion).
The Earth is 40,000 kilometres in circumference.
Even if you exclude the 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity it took to train GPT-4, the smallest text-based model with 8 billion parameters uses 57 joules of energy per response or 114 joules when accounting for cooling. On a large model with 50 times more parameters, that number climbs to 3,353 joules (6706 with cooling) for each response.
It would be counterintuitive to get into the maths here, as MIT do a far better job, likening each response to travelling 400 feet (122 meters) on an e-bike. Google processes around 158,500 searches every second. So, by MIT's maths, if we could capture the power associated with running Gemini for 1 second, a person could travel 19,337 kilometres on an e-bike, or roughly one and a quarter times around the planet.
Almost exactly. It was exact, because that's how the metre was originally defined, but they got it slightly wrong and it was a little too late to change once they got GPS operational and found the real number.
- AirBnB wants to build the "everything app". (The Verge)
No.
- Salesforce has bought Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring, for an undisclosed sum. (Tech Crunch)
Also no.
- How Digg is building a website for humans. (Tech Crunch)
A novel concept in this era.
I don't think the new Digg is likely to succeed, but anyone willing to take on the festering groupthink hugbox of Reddit is welcome to try.
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Maybe the planet they were talkin' 'bout is Mercury.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, June 03 2025 08:23 PM (bg2DR)
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Also, moonhub sounds like one of those cheeky sites that highlights the nether-regions of callypgian lasses.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, June 03 2025 08:25 PM (bg2DR)
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Yeah, insanity is a more confounded thing then people realize, and covid broke a lot of people who were functioning. There are a lot of people right now who are pretty ill. Also, while the decel people are wrong, the accel people are wrong about being able to for sure deliver.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, June 04 2025 01:04 AM (rcPLc)
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Anyway, it looks like something quite interesting on the server end. I guess 'archival quality edition' is a reference. Link is 3 may 2025, today is 3 june 2025, and either fixing or replacing the may 3rd entry?
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, June 04 2025 02:16 AM (rcPLc)
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That phone's a nonstarter at that price, especially with a CPU core that's at least 4 generations out of date (just looking at the A-series, and ignoring the X-series.)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, June 04 2025 03:57 AM (8u94N)
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On the other hand, it's the RK3588S, which is pretty powerful for a phone CPU. I'll note that my Radxa Rock 5B, which uses the non-S version, and is thus slightly more (IIRC, the difference is a PCIe x1 line and a couple other I/O), struggles to run Linux graphically at 1440p, so the screen on the phone may be overkill.
I'm finding my Galaxy A35 to be nearly as good as my S22 Ultra, and at less than half the price ($300 vs $600 or $700, I got both on sale.)
I'm finding my Galaxy A35 to be nearly as good as my S22 Ultra, and at less than half the price ($300 vs $600 or $700, I got both on sale.)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, June 04 2025 04:00 AM (8u94N)
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BTW, the thing about 8GB video cards? People are talking past each other in that you don't really want them for AAA gaming, especially over 1080p, but if you're more of a casual gamer, most indie stuff is perfectly cromulent with 8GB medium settings at 1080.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, June 04 2025 04:02 AM (8u94N)
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Re: "You have five."
Three, sir.
Three, sir.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, June 04 2025 04:04 AM (8u94N)
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7 BTW, the thing about 8GB video cards? People are talking past each other in that you don't really want them for AAA gaming, especially over 1080p, but if you're more of a casual gamer, most indie stuff is perfectly cromulent with 8GB medium settings at 1080.True enough, but in that case you can pick up an RX 580 (new in box) for $90.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 04 2025 08:01 AM (PiXy!)
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4 Anyway, it looks like something quite interesting on the server end. I guess 'archival quality edition' is a reference. Link is 3 may 2025, today is 3 june 2025, and either fixing or replacing the may 3rd entry?Thanks. I have about half an hour with the current state of daylight saving time from the end of my work day to this post going up here and over on Ace's blog, so proof-reading sometimes goes out the window.Posted by: PatBuckman
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, June 04 2025 09:51 AM (PiXy!)
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