the US military is an example of an effective, high quality labor pool reinforced by a well organized benefits state. sets a dangerous example.
does deep seek low training cost presage the possibility of models built and trained by nonprofits with broad public support, with no plutocrat or aspiring plutocrat anywhere in the pipeline?
@ZaneSelvans it’s insane.
in prospect revenge is more appealing than remedy. but it’s like a bag of cheetos — you’ll find you wish you’d gone for the salad after you’ve binged.
@admitsWrongIfProven AI models that are less costly in compute and bandwidth to train, in compute and memory to run, that can be run locally on consumer hardware rather than via API in the cloud. New Chinese models like DeepSeek and Bytedance’s are examples. But other, prior models are runnable on consumer hardware too. If API pricing reflects cost, though, the new Chinese models are lighter. I’d like to see a global competitive race to get lighter!
“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV. Today I will be performing your heart surgery.”
sorry, i love light AI. suck the value out of all the plutocrat’s capex. may all their billions turn to dust while we run whatever fancy autocomplete we want on our laptops.
just encountered a Rolls Royce SUV that looks like basically every other oversize SUV, and i think to myself wtf are you guys doing to your brand?
looking forward to the Lamborghini minivan.
@sqrtminusone that’s the problem. incompetence doesn’t prevent them starting wars. just because they don’t win ‘em doesn’t save anyone from the pain.
on the bright side, a military under Hegseth might struggle to defeat Greenland.
a through line of the Trump Administration’s actions is testing the proposition nothing the Federal govt does matters or is any good. will people really die if PEPFAR is halted? is NIH just a job program for dorky Democrats? doesn’t FEMA just step on better informed states? isn’t the military just foreign aid?
section 230 at the very least should not apply to paid content. https://freeradical.zone/@tek/113884711130516385
people are constantly accusing the federal government of being a jobs program, but that’s just Congress.
@MFDOOMALLCAPS My mirror speaks very differently to me.
[new draft post] Hard information, soft information, groupthink, corruption https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/01/24/hard-information-soft-information-groupthink-corruption/index.html
@Natasha_Jay i’m confident it’s true.
@ZaneSelvans it’s a bit of extra burden but not huge. i should try out some of the multinetwork clients, though. i feel like my hand tweaking is still necessary (for the mentions, because my Mastodon instance allows 500 chars but BlueSky only 300), but maybe they do a better job of automating or assisting with these things than i imagine.
@ZaneSelvans @openvibe i’m doing it by hand. i post in one, and if it’s not a reply or quote post, i copy the text and post to the other, editing mentions as necessary unless i forget to. (some quote posts i reproduce on the other side with a link, but lazily not most of them.)
in my dream, once you ran AI software on a microchip it didn’t matter what you ran afterwards. the microchip had become sentient.