This is how you breed extremists.

Guess terrorism is a plus in their fucked up system.

Thing is, people would be happier if they hadn’t social media and other distractions to fill their days, simply because they would be fighting for a better live in the streets.

Hopefully that will be used as a great example on how capitalism doesn’t work.

Pedro Sanchez is one of the few sensible leaders remaining in the world. I recommend watching his last speech regarding this conflict: https://piped.video/watch?v=h9m4-pkMJpA

This is a true leader of the people!!!

So sensible, clear and direct response to the recent events.

Yet he is going around the world.lecturing about the Antichrist.

Takes one to know one innit?

Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.

Here is the video link

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.

Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!

Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this… feels different.

Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).

But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks…

Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!

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.

Not sure about that.

Nuclear energy is safer than ever.

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

Clinging to oil is like refusing to replace your horse with a car.

I get your point and share your worries, but I ended up concluding that I will regret more aiding the descent to fascism than being a casualty of it.

Think of all the people that survived Nazi Germany while being a collaborator and seeing all the horrors their cowardice helped occur.

I don’t think those people would have happy lives after that, I know I wouldn’t.

Furthermore, I believe that if I don’t act now when is somewhat safe, I will act latter down the line and would definitely get killed.

It’s your choice.

Communism Bad!!!

I believe that’s because they are the same as them (or would like to be) and would behave the exact same way if they were in their position.

While I agree with most of what you said, I cannot disregard how a swift change in politics can be introduced to satisfy the wims of the billonaires. We have recent and astounding examples (USA). Sadly I don’t trust humanity anymore. I don’t have a choice but to try to live my life the best I can, but I won’t force anyone else into existence.

Have a good one you too my friend!

When you realise that we already produce (and throw away) enough food to feed the whole planet, then its evident that scarcity is fabricated.

You mention animals, I would’ve thought we are better than them… Or at least we should try.

When you realise that we already produce (and throw away) enough food to feed the whole planet, then its evident that scarcity is fabricated.

You know what beings live by the rule of virtue? Animals.

I believe we should aim for more.