Yeah, pretty much. I think Marginalia is explicitly not trying to be the search engine, but rather to surface some of the more-neglected corners of the internet. So it won’t function as a complete substitute for another.

My non-helpful answer is to resign myself to accepting that whatever I was searching for isn’t that important.

More practically, finding human-written work is the thing that https://marginalia-search.com/ excels at, although you might have to scroll a bit to find a relevant result.

Personal AI has crossed the threshold where the desktop itself can be compiled per user, per device, per moment, from a small portable model of the user

Source: well I wouldn’t have much of a talk if it weren’t true so I really really hope that it is

It’s easier to imagine the end of causality than the end of capitalism.

complex life developed around 300 million years ago

LOLWAT

I wouldn’t even pin the Cambrian explosion as the beginning of ‘complex life’, yet it’s almost twice as far back as your date.

It will have the capacity to eliminate our energy grids.

This would be a sensible course of action, since AI famously doesn’t require any significant source of energy to operate.

This is an incredible read

It really is. Regards to BioMan for finding it: https://awful.systems/post/9389883/12420011

I had some interest in trying out Bevy for some future projects, in no small part due to their anti-slop policy. Guess I won’t bother?

TracingWoodgrains attempted hatchet job against David Gerard

Out in the wild, I’ve actually seen somebody cite that piece earnestly… as an example of how Wikipedia still has problems even if it’s generally a useful source of information.

It’s like praising with faint damnation.

I continue to be amazed by those random university students somehow outwitting all of LessWrong on this matter.

Here’s a helpful link for the reading-averse https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/#rauch

Once we have superconductors, all computation will immediately switch to relay-based logic

There’s this: “Built for agents: Omarchy’s pipeline moves to DigitalOcean” https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-joins-omacom-foundation

Alongside the infrastructure move, DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit that funds Omarchy’s infrastructure and the open source projects it depends on, as a Founding Corporate Patron, and will serve as Omarchy’s agentic compute provider.

So fascism and slop. Name a more iconic couple.

Don’t suppose we could track down how the announcement got any publicity whatsoever…

It would only be moral to take the money then make videos about how ‘AI safety’ is an imaginary distraction from mundane matters of labour rights and finance capitalism.

Turns out the only cause of inequality in the world is that there’s just too much progress. Once the Best GPU has finally been designed, it’ll just keep rolling off the production line, and those charitable manufacturers will gladly distribute them at bargain prices to all the impoverished masses. Who all have a reliable source of energy to devote to churning out slop.

I suppose my error here is taking him at his word that he could support a ‘pause’, when such a statement could very well just be a concession to appear moderate and reasonable.

The central myth of AI is that it functions.

I don’t even get where Marcus is coming from. He worries that this is a total ban on definitely very useful research, and protests:

I could support the pause; I cannot support a permanent ban on research that might benefit humanity. We may need a temporary pause, maybe even one that lasts for a number of years, until such time as we have much better ideas about regulation and alignment.

So just repeal or amend the total ban once those better ideas are available?

Also that’s a very big MIGHT benefit humanity

I suppose I should be grateful that I can’t decipher it.