Yes, because the pre-Luddite era where people were all but owned while the nobility lived in luxurious estates was a worker's paradise. *EYEROLL*

It wasn't always this way. I was in San Diego during the firestorms of the early 00's, and there the fires tended to stop almost dead once they hit the developed areas. But the developments on the edges were typical suburban ones, houses spaced apart with grass lawns between them. That broke up the fuel supply enough that the firefighters could stop the spread from going past the outermost houses. The exceptions were neighborhoods like the Cottonwoods where HOA regulations forbade clear areas around houses, those neighborhoods burned to the ground.

Since then developers have gotten greedier, increasing the density of "suburban" developments until they're as dense as inner-city neighborhoods. Now wildfires hit those areas and turn into inner-city fires instead, spreading quickly between buildings.

What is it about people posting racist stuff that you're massively in favour of?

Are you proud of your KKK?

Europe has a better history of protecting free speech than the US with their SLAPP suits. We don't have to tolerate blatant racism and the KKK. We recognise that prosecuting people trying to stir up hate protects minorities. As does every other country who didn't come up with their bill of rights whilst still owning slaves.

You presumably tolerate a felon President who has stated repeatedly he's going to set the DoJ on his political opponents, who encouraged a coup and whom several of his own cabinet called a "fascist"?

Your desperate attempt to pretend anyone other than this guy is totalitarian is pitiful.

... or misinformed.

Oh you can't. Literally tens of thousands of factchecks and you can't find a single one that's wrong or misinformed, yet you pretend most of it is.

Children can cope with being wrong. Why can't you?

One of the more shocking public surveys I've ever seen found that the majority of people would not pay $100 to see a live dinosaur.
Now this thread is filled with comments against this project, from "frankenstein" to "why bother".
I truly don't understand people.

Searle's thought experiment is meant to demonstrate the difference between syntactic and semantic information. While LLMs may work at the syntactic level, they do not operate at the semantic level.

If a human suddenly switches language, then we can ask them why and they can explain.

In the case of LLMs, then we don't have that explanation.

Ah, yes - by aborting this foetus, you would have aborted Beethoven (the Great Beethoven fallacy).

Equally, the next person to be born could be the one to stop climate change research and sack all atmospheric physicists and environmentalists.

Will they be burning down data centres and sending death threats and letter bombs to AI devs, and leading mobs of hundreds of people armed with axes, pikes and guns in the same way?

I find it pretty remarkable that you sympathize with the Luddites when they were unambiguously wrong. Their personal motives may have been good, but they were absolutely on the wrong side of history, and they used extensive violence to try to achieve it (to the point that some industrialists started building what were basically panic rooms). The later labour movements that followed focused their aim much better: don't be mad at the machines that make wealth, but rather, be mad at those who direct all the resulting wealth to themselves.

In the same way that it's slavery when your parents won't let you eat dessert until you finish the main course. There's a difference between forcing someone to do something with no compensation / consideration vs placing conditions which amount to a cost of doing business. "If you want access to the profitable sector of the market then you have to also serve the unprofitable sector" is just sound public policy when it comes to licensing natural monopolies.

Why not just buy the GPU separately and stick it in a PC slot?

What PCI GPU do you think is out there that has 128GB of VRAM?

AI tasks don't need much in terms of CPU or fast local storage. They do however impose a lot of bandwidth / latency and cooling requirements. It's easiest to just design to the task.

$3k is the price of a good gaming rig.

If you're looking for something *really* cheap, something like the Orin Nano is more your price range. Normal GPU-level amounts of VRAM but only ~$250 total for a whole system.

When I click on the YT download button, it asks me to sign up for YT Premium. I assumed that if I did hand over the cash they would let me actually download it.

Yet he had no qualms about pre-2021 Musk vocally supporting Democrats for his entire adult life.

She, and Musk pre-2020 gave about equally to both Democrats and Republicans, and my repeated advice to Musk on Twitter was "stay out of politics".

He similarly had no problem with billionaires spending money and controlling media when it was George Soros doing so over many decades

You have a lot of weird assumptions about me, including the assumption that I'm American, and including the assumption that I'm not a fan of campaign reform policies that help keep wealthy donors' and corporate money out of politics. Both of which are wrong

I think 100km is actually a good boundary for other reasons: it's the point where the atmosphere stops being fully mixed and starts ionizing and differentiating. Or, putting it another way, it's the point where the ionization rate starts to meaningfully match the recombination rate due to (increasingly rare) particle collisions.