I think without reading the final line, you might get the wrong impression.
> It doesn’t make those frameworks worthless. It makes them incomplete by design—and it means, again, that AI will never be entirely ethical or safe.
Lots of people in this thread are reading the headline and making the same comparisons that the author does - "Most people don’t provide their context. They never have—not to search engines, not to librarians, not to hardware store clerks."
The article isn't saying "AI will never be ethical and safe, and it is unique in that way," it is saying "and so it is similar to these other things." If anything, it is critiquing the claims made by corporate AI that they can successfully make AI both useful and totally safe.
> Hey @rektide, @apaz-cli, we bundle all sysdeps to allow to ship self-contained packages that users can e.g. pip install. That's our basic default and it allows us to tightly control what we ship. For building, it should generally be possible to build without the bundled sysdeps in which case it is up to the user to make sure all dependencies are properly installed. As this is not our default we seemed to have missed some corner cases and there is more work needed to get back to allow builds with sysdeps disabled. I started #3538 but it will need more work in some other components to fully get you what you're asking with regards to system dependencies. Please not that we do not test with the unbundled, system provided dependencies but of course we want to give the community the freedom to build it that way.
I did get past that issue with nurses & kitty! Thanks for some work there!
There are however quite a large list of other issues that have been blocking builds on systems with somewhat more modern toolchains / OSes than whatever the target is here (Ubuntu 24.04 I suspect). I really want to be able to engage directly with TheRock & compile & run it natively on Ubuntu 25.04 and now Ubuntu 26.04 too. For people eager to use the amazing leading edge capabilities TheRock offers, I suspect they too will be more bleeding edge users, also with more up to date OS choices. They are currently very blocked.
I know it's not the intent at all. There's so much good work here that seems so close & so well considered, an epic work spanning so many libraries and drivers. But this mega thread of issues gives me such vibes of the bad awful no good Linux4Tegra, where it's really one bespoke special Linux that has to be used, that nothing else works. In this case you can download the tgz and it will probably work on your system, but that means you don't have any chance to improve or iterate or contribute to TheRock, that it's a consume only relationship, and that feels bad and is a dangerous spot to be in, not having usable source.
I'd really really like to see AMD have CI test matrixes that we can see, that shows the state of the build on a variety of Linux OSes. This would give the discipline and trust that situations like what we have here do not arise. This obviously cannot hold forever, Ubuntu 24.04 is not acceptable as a build machine for perpetuity, so these problems eventually have to be tackled, but it's really a commitment to avoiding making the build work on one blessed image only that needs to happen. This situation should not have developed; for TheRock to be accepted and useful, the build needs to work on a variety of systems. We need fixes right now to make that true, and AMD needs to be showing that their commitment to that goal is real, ideally by running and showing a build matrix CI where we can see it that it does compile.
I found it pretty boring, to be honest. Felt like an excuse for the author to show off how smart they thought they were, without really any skill at characterization or meaningful plot.
And like, I'm not a writing snob. I read fanfic by amateur authors. But HPMOR just doesn't do much of anything interesting.
There's lots of valid critiques of HPMOR (I recently reread it and the early chapters are painfully obnoxious), but I think "no meaningful plot" and "doesn't do anything interesting" are objectively false. It has like a dozen interacting plotlines, and is massively different from any other HP fanfic and most media in general. It is popular for a reason. If you dropped it early, I'd encourage you to try again.
You’re missing the point. And we’re not just talking about books, whatever that might mean. We’re talking about all documents ever made. Every magazine article, every blog and web page, every Word doc, etc. I’m pretty sure that whatever is in the Vatican archives is tiny by comparison. Given the age of the Vatican archives, I can also guarantee that many of those “books” are nothing more than page fragments. Very few will be full codices or long scrolls. Many will date before the printing press when document production was slow and laborious.
I think the common miscommunication here is that defense is the largest part of the US discretionary budget (about half overall), but that doesn't include those non-negotiable things like Social Security, Medicare, etc .
> It doesn’t make those frameworks worthless. It makes them incomplete by design—and it means, again, that AI will never be entirely ethical or safe.
Lots of people in this thread are reading the headline and making the same comparisons that the author does - "Most people don’t provide their context. They never have—not to search engines, not to librarians, not to hardware store clerks."
The article isn't saying "AI will never be ethical and safe, and it is unique in that way," it is saying "and so it is similar to these other things." If anything, it is critiquing the claims made by corporate AI that they can successfully make AI both useful and totally safe.
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