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Comment Re:insanity (Score 1) 111

local LLMs aren't there yet and probably won't for the forseable future for ordinary people. If you want to run a full model like DeepSeek v4.1 Flash, you need something like half a TB of RAM.

The open-source LLMs are a different threat: They enable a service industry independent of the large players. I could today get some venture capital, rent a few racks in a hosting center, install a bunch of beefy machines and offer the same service as Claude or ChatGPT, just on an open-source model. The differences in benchmarks are becoming irrelevant for 95% of common use cases. And if I can offer that service for $19/m while OpenAI wants $29/m then OpenAI has a problem.

And IMHO this is the chinese strategy: Undermine the US AI industry by breaking its business model.

Comment insanity (Score 4, Interesting) 111

Has everyone gone insane or are we witnessing a major PsyOps ?

Since AI isn't magical, for it to be able to "kill all humans", it would have to be able to acquire the means to do so. Which means that these already exist. It means someone is able to do it right now. And we're chill with that, but worried about AI?

No doubt a bunch of autonomous weapon systems linked into a C&C could cause considerable bloodshed. Given that most of the existing weapon systems of that kind are essentially suicide drones, it'll still be limited damage.

Human-killing virus? Still need a means of creating and delivering it.
Nuclear war? We have humans in the loop.
Drive us all insane with AI-slop TikToks? A few percent of humanity still don't use that.

So what is the actual scenario ? When someone shouts "AI will kill us all", why don't we ask them "how, exactly" ?

Comment Re:Is this really what people will pay for? (Score 0) 172

Our previous conversation was "closed".
So some answer to your CPC misconception ... which is off topic here.

a) 100 million of a bit more than a billion party members is a lot. It is around 10%.
b) in Germany not even 1 out of 80 is a member of a party. That is roughly 1%
c) in the US: parties have no real members
d) membership in the CPC is not "invite only" - you have to apply and do party work, like preparation of elections and counting of votes or other stuff, to be finally accepted

No idea where you get your information from.

I suggest to start reading the wikipedia articles ....

Comment Re:Is this really what people will pay for? (Score 2) 172

There was a player in EVE Online, who bulled his "guild mates" into helping him to get stuff he needed to build a super carrier. I think he got actually the first one of that type in game - not sure about that.

He sunk several 10k USD into it, in in-game currency to get what he wanted. As he was a general dickhead, when he made one of his first flights, perhaps even the first flight, he got "kicked from guild".

The whole universe was invited to kill him. I think the server crashed when 10k players where in the same system and nuked his nice new toy.

Comment Re:Why US and China won't go to war anytime soon (Score 1) 504

Last time, I looked the "don't mind a reunion" was 45 %.

China will get its ass handed to it if it ever tries with vast majorities of its forces being wrecked long before ever reaching Taiwan.
That is an extremely uninformed attitude. China is tech leader in nearly every military category. And the farking strait between mainland and Taiwan is short

Luckily for mainland China, an invasion is out of the question, so no one has to fear anything.

Comment Re: Renewable+storage = reliable (Score 1) 200

Yes, because you quoted me there.
And gave a stupid answer which had nothing to do with your quote.

Temperature "overload" - is not what the term "overload" in a grid means.

Overload means the voltage spiked. Not temperature.

Get a clue. No idea why you jumped into this discussion if you even do not remember what the topic was I talked about with my previous parent.

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