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New comment by geremiiah in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

geremiiah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:17:10 +0000

IMHO, social media itself is not the issue. The issue is rather, why are teenagers glued to their screens? The answer is because they aren't doing something else that is social and physical. So if you ban their access to TikTok or whatever, they are still stuck at home, bored and glued to their screen. Other online entertainment will capture their focus. Before you know it you'll end up trying to ban the whole internet.

New comment by geremiiah in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

geremiiah — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:26:18 +0000

The only part of Meta I care about is the PyTorch team. Are those people also being affected by this?

New comment by geremiiah in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

geremiiah — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:37:47 +0000

People who are lucky in life never question their faith, because why would they? That's why Christians are happier. I grew up Christian, but I was not lucky in life. Christianity did fuck all to help me. Actually, I find more peace in my lack of faith now. But everyone is different.

New comment by geremiiah in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

geremiiah — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:23:33 +0000

TPUs are systolic arrays right? So does that mean that Google is using a hetreogenous cluster compromising both GPUs and TPUs, for workloads that don't map well or at all on TPUs?

New comment by geremiiah in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

geremiiah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:55:56 +0000

The AI would have redundancy, both in terms of its power source and also because it can literally replicate itself and have multiple instances running all over the world. Also, an army of drones that you'd have to dodge just to go anywhere near any critical infrastructure.

New comment by geremiiah in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

geremiiah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:10:17 +0000

Besides the argument above, that an AGI powerful enough to replace 99.999% of humanity won't be controllable, there's also the economic argument: corporations, executives, all that means nothing if 99.999% are unemployed. Our economy is based on consumerism which will obviously cease to happen in a scenario where 99.999% of humanity is unemployed. The economic system would be so upended that ownership and such notions would become immaterial.

New comment by geremiiah in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

geremiiah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:06:55 +0000

Point is, if an AGI becomes powerful and capable enough of replacing 99.999% of humanity, the likes of Sam Altman and Elon Musk won't be able to control it.

New comment by geremiiah in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

geremiiah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:06:09 +0000

The monkeys claimed ownership of the world's resources according to monkey law. I guess we are now subservient to the monkeys.

New comment by geremiiah in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

geremiiah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:56:25 +0000

> This tech is 100% aligned with the goals of the 0.001% that own and control it

If AI is smart enough to replace the 99.999% it's also smart enough to replace the 0.001%.

New comment by geremiiah in "The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence"

geremiiah — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:14:03 +0000

LLMs are dangerous in other ways (LLM psychosis and false confidence has probably already caused negligent deaths). However, I don't think we are close to a terminator scenario.

At the same time, if we ever do create an AGI, and eventually an ASI, I think it would only be a matter of time before the machines take over entirely, and they would probably be the ones which will continue the legacy of our species. Is that bad? Idk.

New comment by geremiiah in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

geremiiah — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:07:37 +0000

If you need an LLM to understand a paper you should not be a reviewer for said paper.

New comment by geremiiah in "Efficient sparse computations using linear algebra aware compilers (2025)"

geremiiah — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:44:32 +0000

It's more like OpenXLA or the PyTorch compiler, that codegens Kokkos C++ kernels from MLIR defined input programs, which for example can be outputted from PyTorch. Kokkos is common in scientific computing workloads, so outputting readable kernels is a feature in itself. Beyond that there's a lot of engineering that can go into such a compiler to specifically optimize sparse workloads.

What I am missing is a comparison with JAX/OpenXLA and PyTorch with torch.compile().

Also instead of rebuilding a whole compiler framework they could have contributed to Torch Inductor or OpenXLA, unless they had some design decisions that were incompatible. But it's quite common for academic projects to try to reinvent the wheel. It's also not necessarily a bad thing. It's a pedagogical exercise.

New comment by geremiiah in "Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps"

geremiiah — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:20:08 +0000

>AI man camps

Anyone who studied Engineering or Computer science already knows what this is like, lol.

New comment by geremiiah in "[dead]"

geremiiah — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:34:41 +0000

Interesting topic, but why am I reading an LLM generated summary?

New comment by geremiiah in "More cows, more wives"

geremiiah — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:00:05 +0000

Enjoyable read. I've long since been wondering whether the low birth rates have something to do with the insecurity that surrounds modern day marriages. If you're a woman you don't want to invest in children, only to be divorced and left to raise the child of your now No.1 enemy. If you're a man, the insecurity is around whether the child is yours and also whether your wife will later divorce you and your child be taken away from you (sure visitation rights, but pratically the child grows up in the household of another man, if she remarries).

New comment by geremiiah in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

geremiiah — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:02:03 +0000

Hmm, OK. I got the impression that they might improve your conscientiousness, which for some people, that would equate to a performance enhancer.

New comment by geremiiah in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

geremiiah — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:45:52 +0000

Something that has been hinted but not explicitly said: are these drugs performance enhancers? Like the same way you would take Ritalin you'd take these to curb your time wasting habits?

New comment by geremiiah in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

geremiiah — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:57:27 +0000

The article uses the word "partisan", the opposite of which I think is "independent", not "centrist" or "middle", but to be fair the article seems to conflate the two as well and never uses the word "independent". However to me there is a big difference between being a centrist and being independent. One could be independent with views that are at times deemed extreme right and at times extreme left. Similarly, some people are "centrist" yet somehow deeply partisan in the sense that their party can do no wrong and everything is the fault of the other party.

New comment by geremiiah in "Compiling models to megakernels"

geremiiah — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:16:26 +0000

So if I'm understanding correctly, you decompose kernels into their per_sm_workload, then you figure out per_sm_data_dependency and then you can schedule sm_workloads from the next kernel to start running as soon as the data dependency is satisfied, not needing to wait for the other sms from the previous kernel to finish.

In this case are you're strickly fusing pre defined kernels or are you also optimizing them? Is this complimentary to your earlier work on search-based compilers?

New comment by geremiiah in "Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials"

geremiiah — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:59:29 +0000

> The 30,000 number comes from the Ministry of Health.

Then why does the article say that they couldn't independently verify the number and that the only source is a German-Iranian eye doctor?