Let’s be honest, things could’ve gone better.

Post below this: It says gullible on the ceiling.

Religions claim to answer that need. But they’re bullshit. It’s all just made-up, and the made-up bullshit somehow means minorities don’t get civil rights.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

"China is good!’

“I disagree.”

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How high, sir?

Right, it’s bad when one country invades another out of nowhere, like for flimsy historical excuses to use their land.

Fish attacks mirror.

I could hold up a blank sign and you’d parrot the same script about “fantasy.”

“We can’t moderate you for applying our rhetoric consistently unless you explicitly say which camp you mean!”

There are other ways it might work, like if there is a method of compression that is discovered that reduces the necessary RAM and Compute needs by 2-3 orders of magnitude. So models that are considered very large today (100-300 billion params at full quality) might be able to run effectively on a single 32GB GPU that costs a few thousand dollars.

You might want to check in on how well distilled / quantized models are doing, compared to gigundo datacenter versions.

Yes, wouldn’t it be terrible if one country claimed the entire territory of another.

They’re fucked.

Local models are already winning. Those benchmarked a year behind the biggest of big boys, a year ago. Six months ago they were six months behind. Yesterday Qwen released 3.6 27B and it outperforms 3.5 397B… from February.

Either we’re plateauing toward the asymptotic limit of LLM capabilities, and the endgame runs as well on a toaster as it does on a server - or breakthroughs use big fat models as a glorified search space to be rapidly discarded. Both options point toward neural networks as a lump of algebra that sits on your hard drive and occasionally spins your fans. Remote computing loses, as it basically always must, and the drastically reduced requirements for competing on local software favor clever new competitors who aren’t a bajillion dollars in debt.

It’s not tunneling, it’s capacitance. Even truly disconnected components can accidentally become a transformer.

“我们现在必须建立圈子。”

Confidently incorrect about how fragile some circuits can be. Simple functionality is a convenient illusion we’ve beaten into various squiggles of metal. Electricity is secretly also a radio and a magnet, and even in wires it can’t know there’s nothing at the end until it gets there. Sometimes things just happen.

Please stop using the word “distracted” in reference to World War 3.

A fine endorsement.

First they came for people I don’t like, I assume, and I said hell yeah, there’s no way that will ever be me. Over here, officer. Come for a few more kinds of people I don’t like. Nothing bad ever happened to the French!

Take a slide rule to ancient Babylon because on some level I’m morally offended we didn’t figure that one out until the 17th century. Ideally this also snipes a variety of terrible numeral systems.

(Centurii-chan)