Now that the 2° admentment reason for having guns is totally debunked, the only reason for everyone to have guns is to live in constant fear of being shot or having to shot someone else.
Having to chose between feeding your children and getting life saving medical treatment is a very real choice most Americans can be confronted with.
Etc etc etc...
Turns out USA is only the best country in the world for rich people and paedophiles...
When a bunch of billionaires, psychopaths and otherwise deranged people can backtrack 20 years of societal advances, we have to seriously rethink the system that allowed it.
Yes, but don't underestimate the power of centralisation.
6 months ago you could set up a server for running a decent local llm for under 800.
By increasing the demands and pushing the price of hardware up, they are efectibly gate keeping access to llms.
I think the plan is that we will need to rely on this companies for compute power and llms services, and then they can do all sorts of nefarious things.
Is this correct? I was under the impresion that the most expensive part of an llm is the training, and once that's done the cost of running a prompt is negligible.
I get your point that this last part doesn't scale well, but the far larger cost of training must get very diluted if they distribute it across a large user base.
My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.
Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.
That's my best case.
Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the worst best Marketer would blush about.
They are not stupid.
They firmly believe that happy people are not productive at the level they want.
And they want our 150% because they are hoping for AGI and other holy grail technologies to happen in their lifetimes.
When you have everything the only goal left is to avoid losing it.
I'm fundamentally against death penalty, but in the case of Billionaires I believe we can and must do without whatever genetic or psicological traits they carry.
We simply can't afford that level of selfishness to survive as a species.
They'd rather poison the earth and make it uninhabitable than being constrained in any way or form.
This is a clear example of a person that has no empathy whatsoever.
See, no sane person would smile while exposing a person death sentence to the whole world.
The fact that this deranged person was elected as president, is a clear sign that our society is sick.
Let's hope it survives enough to find a cure...