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Going to be some wild captchas before this is all over.

There’s another line after that, but people don’t like talking about it.

How it’ll likely go down for him.

Yes, I know. You’re saying that a 32GB graphics card is millionarie hardware? You’ve got a weird view of the cost of these things.

Plus, the hardware to run a full sized LLM is expensive

It’s a regular gaming PC. Are you going to dismiss all gamers as “millionaires”?

But those AI-generated bacteriophages lack soul.

The facist takeover may be more important, but it’s what Republicans want. Whereas this pedophilia thing is actually a wedge issue that can splinter Trump’s support among the Republicans and set them fighting each other. So IMO that’s more important to focus on from a pragmatic stance.

Asking how “social media” portrays the US is not very useful since social media is designed to show each individual user a view that’s tailored to them. And I haven’t watched the “regular” news in many years, haven’t had a TV or newspaper subscription in half a decade. So take this all with a huge grain of salt when it comes to the “general” view.

Here in Canada, the US has always been seen as a bully who talked a good game about economics and freedom but that didn’t measure up in reality. They were respected and admired for how big and strong they were, and we definitely absorbed a lot of American culture, but there’s always been an undercurrent of concern and resentment. Now, with the reelection of Trump and subsequent events, all of that has blown wide open. They’ve literally declared their intent to forcibly annex us, and had the gall to even say it would be for our own good. They have attacked us economically for reasons that are ludicrous on their face. Their social cohesion is collapsing, they’ve replaced their top officials with ideologues and cultists, they’re actively destroying any credibility they may have earned over the decades in pretty much every field. I don’t think most would go so far as to call them an adversary nation (as I would) but most no longer consider them an ally.

The official news still treads lightly on some of this, but Canada has no choice but to pay close attention. One look at the map makes it obvious why. I think a lot of us recognize that this is a crisis situation. We do have a fifth column of America-worshippers among us still, and that’s a major part of the problem, but overall Canadians seem pretty united on this.

I pay for my electricity. It uses roughly the same amount of power when I’m running an LLM as it would if I was playing a game. It’s negligible.

And contrary to all the breathless headlines about water-guzzling data centers, my computer doesn’t consume any water at all when I run an LLM.

[ Removed by Reddit ] is the only idea that comes to mind, alas.

The problem is that they’re happy to own it.

I should note, since this comment is IMO confusingly worded, that the quote you provide is not from the first amendment of the US constitution. It’s from the United States Flag Code, which isn’t even a law let alone part of the constitutions. The flag code is basically just a guideline of etiquette that the American Legion published.

Most of the time when weird questions like that involving consent come up, I assume it probably involved some kind of sex thing.

Let’s hope it won’t last long.

Just hoping he goes away doesn’t strike me as a good strategy. So probably that’s what the Democrats will go with.

So many of the complaints I see about LLM behaviour can be so easily solved by just adding “don’t behave this way” to the prompt. Most LLM frameworks these days let you add stuff like that to the default system prompt so you don’t even have to remember to do it.

The very first comparison fails, though. I run LLMs locally on my own computer, tokens cost me nothing.

There are preventative measures that can be taken that don’t involve them, but unfortunately it’s looking like America might be past those options now.

“Pride flags classified as a terrorist symbol” is not something I had on my bingo card, but in hindsight it probably should have been.

This is actually another of Reddit’s decisions that I’m in agreement with. Subscriber count isn’t a very useful number, it largely just measures how old a subreddit is. You can already see how old the subreddit is much more accurately by looking at its founding date.

This is actually one of the few decisions Reddit has made in recent years that I agree with. They’re trying to eliminate the pattern of having “powermods” that just accumulate endless numbers of huge subreddits under their belts.