To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Sorry, I didn't mean to twist your panties. I was merely pointing out (pedantically, I admit) that the rules of logic are not identical to the rules of statistics. LLMs (and arguably all current generations of AI models) are inherently statistical systems. This can be pretty easily demonstrated by the fact that all current LLMs can be coaxed into saying things that are illogical. As you point out you can "approximate" logic and arrive at logical conclusions with these systems, but you are not doing so using a logic engine. You are doing so using a stochastic system.

At the philosophical level, logic exists outside of our neurons. Its rules are (as far as we accept anything in reality) independent of human existence. So just because our neurons are also subject to the imperfections of stochastic systems does not mean that ALL stochastic systems are logical.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Point of order. LLMs are not applying logic to a data set. They are applying statistical probability models to a data set. Not quite the same thing.

Do you not do the classic date night: dinner and a movie?

Sure...

But these days its getting harder and harder to get out on a date without the wife finding out...

But I have no idea why people pay that much money and sit through the advertising just to watch a derivative summer comedy.

....to veg out and enjoy someone else's air conditioning during the extreme heat of the summer....?

These are the same people that insist "assault rifles" must be banned, despite being unable to define them beyond "they're scary".

Well, er...let's see...they're black!! And uh....when you pull the trigger, they go "PEW"....and uh....well uh...

Right?

Being in the firearms business without an FFL will make you a human doing illegal things. Even if you do it with a file and hand-crank drill.

Not federally.

It has always been legal in the US to make your own firearms for PERSONAL use.

You can make all the firearms you want, but, you cannot sell them, nor give them away....no serial number required, etc.

This has been the long standing right all US citizens have enjoyed since the country began.

It's only recently where companies made this a bit easier to do that some states started freaking out.

"Recruit your friends, grab your 15 year old camcorder, edit in Sony/Magix Vegas, do the CGI stuff in whatever you can find"!

A home user these days has a LOT of resources/tools that will allow some great content to be made.

There are tools that only a few years ago were ONLY in the reaches of the $$$ corporations.

You can buy quality cameras for $2K or so range...you have tools like Davinci Resolve that actually has a FREE version that will do 99% of what a young filmmaker would need to do with reference to editing, VFX, Sound and color correction/grading.

RODE and DJI and others make perfectly usable mic systems the average user can use to capture good sound.

And with the AI tools coming on board....you can do some really special stuff, not full CGI, but I've seen transitions clips done with AI that had my jaw drop....

And no this will not put you in the poor house....yes you have to invest ''some" into equipment, but the main resource you need these days....is sweat equity, imagination and determination to learn how to use the tools at your disposal.

Nobody expects you to put out Raiders of the Lost Ark on your first attempt....but hey, good story writing and presentation go a LONG way, hell, just look back a couple decades ago and longer to see that that is actually what carried movies since the inception of the art form.

Yeah. Whose sense of morality or spirituality will the software be tuned to? Mine, or yours or those of the Roman church? There's millions of people who find it immoral to eat onions

Ok, any religion that says God says you cannot eat this or that food...is immediately disqualified....

I cannot believe God made pork....some of the world's BEST food (bacon, smoked BBQ, etc)...and then said "You can't eat this".

Sorry I don't buy it.

Onion? Seriously...?

Please, what religions says you can't eat onions? If they were right I'd be dead and in hell by end of breakfast most days.

Or am I seeing some danger in what the AI might learn from Christian history?

Still...better than the Islamic/Muslim religion's history....convert of die.

Thank goodness the Christians were here for the crusades or the Muslims would cover most of the world by now....

Hell, they're still trying, and somewhat succeeding in parts of Europe.

At least with Christianity the concepts of empathy and forgiveness came about..no such thing with the brutality of Islam....if you don't believe it, go live in some Muslim countries and see how long you last?

Tell me about it. I live in PA and the laws are ridiculous. The state finally relaxed the laws enough that convenience and grocery stores can sell beer and wine. In order for this to happen the store must also serve prepared food and having a seating area. So most places just add a few cheap cafe tables that nobody ever sits at. The stores are also restricted on times they can sell and quantity. In fact it wasn't until the early 2000s that PA allowed alcohol sales on Sunday. So you couldn't even get a bottle of wine for a cooking a Sunday roast

Ah...so glad I live in Louisiana .....home of the "to go" cup where you can take your drink out of the bar in a plastic cup.....drive thru daquiri stores...and alcohol sales 7 days a week.

A true "liquor store " is kinda rare here....as that in most places you just get your beer, wine and hard liquor from the grocery store...of the Quicke Mart....or the gas stations....just about anywhere really.

Be aware of unexpected correlations. Maybe DUI will go up because people now have to drive to another state to get their fix.

Yep...we have drive thru Daquiri shops here in Louisiana....and alcohol is sold just about everywhere....gas stations, 7-11 type stores...grocery stores sell beer, wine and hard liquor.....hell you rarely see a "liquor store" that is just dedicated to booze....

Hell, if you come into the NOLA area, not a lot of ID checks either....just have to know where to go.

While I can't drop $2K here and there throughout the year without thinking.....I don't consider $2K a bank breaker. I'm not rich, but I do like to save up and drop some coin 1-2 times a year on something nice.

Maybe cameras or new lenses (lenses can be $$)....or the odd cell from time to time.

I think last time I dropped about $1100 or so for my iPhone 12 Pro Max.....and I did pay it off 12 mos interest free with Apple Pay....

But that's just me using their money...in truth I almost NEVER buy anything I don't have cash in hand for.

But if they let me finance interest free I'll do that and keep the cash in an interest bearing account of some kind.

Again I'm far from wealthy, but I have no real debts.....but I know a lot of people and $2K is pocket change for them....and these aren't few and far between types of people, I see these types all the time all over the place.

It's not rare by any stretch of the imagination.