And none of that matters as long as static IP addresses aren't being given out as standard operating procedure. That means IPv4 needs to go, NAT needs to go, and IPv6 needs to be the new standard. Until that happens, there is zero chance any hobby services will be in any way disruptive to big tech.

I can't even find the words to describe how stupid this lawsuit is, and how stupid the public has become who support it. There is a lot of responsibility to be had, but not in any of the directions espoused by this lawsuit or its supporters. The cause is the destruction of the family unit by Feminists, the public school system, and the shitty 8-5 on-premesis work culture. If not for them, there would always be a parent at home to watch over the kids, and the kids would always be at home to be guided by their parents.

There is an entire series of dissertations that can be written about this, but there is no such thing as social media addiction. That bullshit is just a symptom of what I described above (which itself is just scratch the surface of our societal problems).

Researchers have gotten the major models to regurgitate the vast majority of books by starting with a paragraph of the book. The notion that training only tweaks probabilities is complete and utter nonsense. Alsup was 95% wrong in his decision. He was blatantly lied to by Anthropic, and he bought the crap hook, line, and sinker; lock, stock, and barrel.

And everything he typed was entirely true.

Where I work, we had two senior developers retire a couple years ago. We posted the job openings, and got a few applicants. In the interviews, they all asked about our work-from-home policy. I had to tell them that we don't have one officially, but it does happen (we actually had an unofficial hybrid policy after COVID ended). Two of the three weren't interested, and the one we hired left for a fully work-from-home company a year later. I told the boss that we would likely get more applicants with an officially endorsed work from home benefit.

When replacing the one who left, we officially adopted and advertised the hybrid model. After posting the job opening with the hybrid model officially endorsed, we got dozens of applicants.

COVID proved that working from home obviously works perfectly well, and the labor market is clamoring for it as a standard benefit.

The more coordination and collaboration there is, the more benefit there is to doing it remotely. If you're not getting those benefits, you're doing it very wrong. Where I work, we get way more benefits from collaborating over the Internet, and much more friction trying to do the same thing in-person. It's not even a fair fight. In-person vs. remote is like a fat slob at his worst vs. Mike Tyson in his prime.

That's the way to do it, at least until IPv6 with static IP's becomes standard. I do the same thing you do. I have a personal server and a small business server. I pay about $13/month for each. They only have 100Mb connections, but that is adequate for my needs.

That is exactly what is happening now.

It is marginally useful at the best of times, but not useful enough that anyone is willing to pay for it to the degree even remotely necessary to sustain it. Not only is it barely useful at the best of times, it is actively useless in most circumstances. It costs more to use AI than to do the same thing with traditional means.

As you pointed out, the reason there is a dearth of GPUs and RAM is because of all these large AI server farms. When the AI bubble pops, there will be a glut of GPUs and RAM. This will make them dirt cheap for a short while after they flood the used equipment market.

Conscious AI is only as dangerous as the political power of those stupid enough to believe it's somehow possible, and worse if they not only believe it's possible, but that it's right around the corner.

ALL currency is funny money. The only thing that gives them value is the general market's willingness to trade goods and services using that currency. There is nothing inherently valuable in any currency. Not gold, Dollars, Bitcoin, teeth, or anything else. All currency is printed out of thin air (yes, gold too). Today's currency is tomorrow's toilet paper.

The only reason Bitcoin is not particularly valuable is that the general market does not generally trade using it. If markets decided today that Bitcoin was a more desirable currency than the Dollar, we would be wiping our asses with the Dollar by mid-day today.

Most businesses won't be affected, because the wording on VPN ban legislation I've seen include something to the effect of banning services that are "designed to evade" the Taliban-like restrictions these states are imposing. Most business VPN's don't fall into that category.

This is most definitely an LLM problem and a marketing problem combined, but it is all rooted in the LLM problem. Just where do you think the LLM gets its useful information? And how useful do you think the LLM would be without the underlying websites used to feed it?

Put down the Crack pipe.

That won't happen any more than it does now. Look at what happened during the Covid lockdown. Trillions of addtional dollars were pumped into the economy, and the end result was a staggering inflation spiral. That had a short-term benefit to the super poor, but they were soon in the exact same situation they were in before the stimulus. That happens for many reasons, but the end result is that giving money to people will cause as many, if not more, problems than existed prior to the giveaway.