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  1. Etern4l
    Well, right, a CPU ILM is not really meant to be fitted by humans in the first place (we don't have 4 hands with precision torque-controlled screwdrivers), so the first human error here is the fall for silly Internet marketing which advertises purported benefits of the device (in the case of GN, in a ludicrous manner in retrospect), and consequently the very removal of a factory-calibrated ILM, followed by its replacement by a gimmick which comes with no torque specification, so there is no way to fit it properly. You can get lucky, or you can ruin your mobo. Edit: BTW Jay offered a more honest review ("no difference, whatevs"). I have more and more respect for that guy now after he pulled the shilly 4060 Ti review. A rare breed, hope he recovers soon.
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    I totally called this. Very suspicious of any gimmicks like this, including contact frames etc. after the bending fiasco. Shouldn't need any those things, products ought to work properly as delivered by OEMs.
  3. Etern4l
    Did you watch the Tesla event video? He said he ultimately expects one or two of those robots per human inhabitant of the planet. Billions. Obviously part of it is marketing BS aimed at getting dumb money to part with their cash, but he wasn't obviously joking.
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    He already called them Optimus or something. He has been on a cunning campaign of AI safety virtue signalling for dummies, so surely will continue to avoid any obvious PR issues as he continues on his Iron Man-esque quest for world domination.
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    All bugs are on.
  6. Etern4l
    Plus this thin connector might incurs some unnecessary energy loss, as thinner wiring could mean materially larger resistance. Does the connector get warm under 400W load?
  7. Etern4l
    From 11:00 - Elon is working on AGI and ultimately building 16 billion Optimus humanoid robots. What could go wrong... https://youtu.be/D_8WShgZLQM
  8. Etern4l
    It won't be long before Nvidia announces that merely plugging the 12VHPWR connector in voids warranty ;)
  9. Etern4l
    All I'm seeing so far is bizarre news like this: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-adamantine-l4-cache-for-meteor-lake Basically they state that L4 cache will be faster than L3 cache (would be a nonsensical design), but then they also say it won't really be general purpose cache but: As explained by Intel, the main purpose of L4 cache is to improve boot optimization and increase security around the host CPU. Furthermore, the L4 cache would preserve the cache at reset, leading to improved loading times that would otherwise have to go through all boot/reset cycles. Not clear what the fuss is about, definitely can't wait to have my load and boot times optimised that way lol Probably just noise written by AI.
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    Not clear L4 cache is worth the die space, in light of the current DDR5 speeds. Is there any specific communication from Intel that this is their plan for Meteor Lake, or just online speculation? Anyway, I hope you are wrong about Intel's future, since you sound like they are going down the toilet soon, which nobody- not even AMD and Apple fanboys - should want given the benefits of competition in the CPU space.
  11. Etern4l
    Those Meteor Lake leaks make little sense and look like clickbait. Why would Intel cut the number of cores when transitioning from 10nm to 7nm process?
  12. Etern4l
    We have a "limited free will". We can attempt to choose among the ideas/potential actions that "come to mind", i.e. what the subconscious part of the brain suggests to us. The key question is: what does come to one's mind and why? This is most likely based on the more recent input, now controlled by big tech to a dangerous degree, but then what we actually do is heavily dependent on our fairly primitive reward-motivation pathway which also gets hacked and hijacked by technology. All worked great back in on the savanna 100,000 years ago, not so great today, in the era of AI-controlled, and soon generated, (anti-)"social" media.
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    @ryan "How" is a fair question. The problem is that there is a vast multitude of ways by which AI could damage or destroy humanity. I think the best we can do right now is enumerate as many as we can, and work as hard as we can on preventing them from happening. The bottom line is that once you have a super-intelligent entities making decisions for you, all bets are off. It need not even be sentient to be extremely harmful and dangerous, and yes - the ability to predict the future better than we can will be at the core of AI's power. Here is another clip from an interview with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, futurist and renowned author (recommend watching the whole thing):
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    An interview with a renowned historian, futurist and author (rather than a Joe Schmoe from YouTube). Worth watching the whole thing with an open mind IMHO, however, picked one starting point for those pressed for time:
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    Poll: 61% of Americans say AI threatens humanity’s future Only 61%? Well, it's a start, and enough to get AI in the US under proper control.
  16. Etern4l
    OK, got you. Well, the UK setup looks more sensible then. It's a non-governmental organisation (Ofcom), it really is independent from the government, and their scope is fairly limited. I don't think they regulate user-generared content. They would stop TV news channels from spreading misinformation though.
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    Not necessarily a problem - some oversight can be helpful, especially in the era of AI generated fake news. Depends on what the bill actually says. What caught your eye specifically?
  18. Etern4l
    BT to cut 55,000 jobs with up to a fifth replaced by AI Here we go.. BT is a British telecoms giant, basically a monopolist.
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    Reminded me of the brilliant HBO miniseries "Chernobyl" (the trailer kind of sucks in comparison lol)
  20. Etern4l
    I've used split keyboards since Microsoft Natural Keyboard came out, for personal use mostly. Have absolutely no issues using standard keyboards BTW. Also have the original Kinesis with mechanical switches, albeit they are too soft for me. The nice thing about the Kinesis Freestyle is the adjustability in terms of the width and angle. The switches are membrane but very pleasant.
  21. Etern4l
    Kinesis Freestyle II. The ergonomics is good, key layout is not ideal though, especially the lack of standard insert.
  22. Etern4l
    Yes, trades off VRAM for compute, so the video card better have lots of the latter to throw around.
  23. Etern4l
    Violated even. The new normal feeling when dealing with a lot of today's tech.
  24. Etern4l
    There is no point trying to hide in the woods. You can't wait this out. Suggestions on what to do in the first post. The time to fight this is now, before it's too late.
  25. Etern4l
    More on the immediate threat of AI: "If someone had the AGI, we wouldn't be sitting here today. The AGI will be the real end of human history"
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