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genAI is a “free resource” (“it’s free for me to use at work”)

i.e. literally not free, it’s capital the boss allows him to use while on the clock while he works for a wage.

Faraday cage on the room. Your phone is now a glorified calculator.

Third: This is unsustainable, and she knows it, which is why she is pivoting from the “slop slinger” grift to the “you too can be a slop slinger with my app and method” grift.

That’s a really good point, actually. If this was a good method for writing stories people will actually buy and enjoy, she wouldn’t tell anyone.

What’s the fucking point?

I never blew $9000 when I was 14.

I never even saw that much money at one time until I was in my 20s.

Its also possible to run these things locally… its slower than a cloud LLM service, but its still very usefully fast, and isn’t funding some corpo datacenter.

But it wasn’t done locally, which begs the question: can local models reverse engineer on any kind of reasonable time scale?

Constitutional rights are made up, the Supreme Court can interpret the Constitution however they want.

That’s how they’re forcing ID laws onto porn now. They make up some shit about “reasonableness” and your rights are gone.

You’re the one saying that the Ukrainian government had to become fascist under the conditions of total war.

Well, guess what fascists do! They torture. I don’t see why we shouldn’t expect torture to be happening in those conditions, we’re going to hear more and more stories about torture as time goes on.

Fascism does not create discipline, it creates chaos, because they always start torturing. That’s why fascism collapses.

Fascist gibberish.

Torture does not create discipline, it creates chaos. Torturers tend to become comrade killers and family killers; training and facilitating torturers is how you get more rapists, traitors, and sabotage. Read Fanon, his observations about French torturers put to bed the idea that this could ever be a useful practice. Torture degrades the human condition and turns people into monsters, and they don’t turn back when the war is done. After this war is over, they’ll just go home and keep torturing.

I’m sure my metabolism wastes a lot of energy, maybe I should starve. Or die.

You’re right, we should force everyone to walk so we can build more data centers.

I mean, I think plants have more complex feelings and inner lives than LLMs.

I’d definitely put LLMs beneath plants.

What that tells me is that LLM agents can augment human hackers to perform feets neither could do on their own.

I don’t know why I would then conclude OpenAI is simply lying about even finding exploits. It’s believable that human programmers, using LLMs, have been able to find exploits. They’re going to lie and give more credit to the Wizard than to the man behind the curtain, but that doesn’t mean the exploits themselves aren’t real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike

Did you miss the “can range from 3-15 times higher than the direct casualty count” part?

Also, the Nazis were in charge for 12 years. This mass killing started only three years ago, but Israel will catch up.

Remember, Israel is blockading food, fuel, and medicine while still bombing and shooting people. This winter is probably going to be extremely bad and see the death toll spike: Israel targeted Gaza’s water infrastructure, hospitals, and has destroyed 82 percent of all structures. No construction equipment or material is allowed in, so most people are effectively homeless.

The plan is total elimination of Gaza as a polity, either by displacing or exterminating the population. There’s nowhere to displace them to (the Nazis ran into the same problem) so if Israel is not stopped then we will see them exterminate everyone.

And Israelis love it. The main electoral split is between people who support Netanyahu’s current plans for genocide, and people who want even more genocide and think Netanyahu has been too soft on the Palestinians.

At least 3.6% of the population are confirmed killed so far, with a more accurate count being hard because so many bodies are buried under the rubble and Israel won’t allow digging equipment in. Also, I say “so far” because the Zionazis kill more every day. Then there’s the indirect deaths, from disease and hunger and suicide, which can range from 3-15 times higher than the direct casualty count. We have absolutely no idea what the real number is at this point because data collection is impossible.

In addition: 10% have sustained life-altering injuries (severe burns, missing limbs, etc) and 60% of Palestinians have lost family.

No big deal, right?

Spoiler: this will not reduce data center development

The hyperscale bullshit will fail when the bubble pops. The only way those models can continue is with unlimited free money. Unless the government steps in to run the data centers (and it might) they’re all going to collapse.

But, local open models will keep getting use as tools long after the hyperscalers are done.

They’re already setting up and testing out the infrastructure in many places, which you yourself have pointed out. It’s not like New York has to have some kind of special infrastructure that’s different from states and countries putting in ID laws to restrict access to “adult” websites. We are exiting the testing phase at this point, this is when we see wide rollout.

Also, age verification for adult websites is bad because they’re just going to ban minors from accessing important sexual health education information and track people who look up unapproved content. Oh you want to learn about your gender identity? Sorry kiddo, you aren’t allowed to learn about that. Oh you watch gay porn? Scan your ID so we can put you on a list.

Also also China’s AI regulations, to my understanding, restrict companion features in general while outright banning them for minors, which is done with information from the Internet real-name system.