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Can't wait for the pop to take out all the grifters and leave us to do the actual work in peace with reasonably priced GPUs.

This has always been a risk, but the likelihood is so much greater with LLMs.

People do love Ikea, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, and The Gap.

This is sociopathy, not a fun prank.

Then enjoy your security holes, placeholder fake features, and miles of atrocious 'clever' hacks.

You do in the US.

That's you/OAuth giving the provider your google account id, which is your @gmail.com email.

I honestly thought this was a satire piece until I got halfway through, it was so obnoxious in tone.

> I’ve gotten perfect scores on every reading test I’ve ever taken, including the SAT and GRE.

> license it is not possible to require a payment for its use or to limit distribution

Those two are not the same, see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

You can also try to charge $10000 for a gold plated CD copy of the Linux kernel without having committed a line yourself.

You can get a used 5 year old Xeon Dell or Lenovo Workstation and 8x64GB of ECC DDR4 RAM for about $1500-$2000.

Or you can rent a newer one for $300/mo on the cloud

Software jobs pay more than artist jobs because coding builds things. You can still be a code artist on your own time. Nobody is stopping you from writing in assembler.

Giving an LLM access to the command line so it can bash and curl and and python and puppeteer and rm -rf / and send an email to the FBI and whatever it thinks you want it to do.

Continue with the rest of the paragraph: "Rather, other California police departments searched Oakland’s system on behalf of federal counterparts more than 200 times — providing reasons such as “FBI investigation” for the searches — which appears to mirror a strategy first reported by 404 Media, in which federal agencies that don’t have contracts with Flock turn to local police for backdoor access."

These were approved by governments that promised the data would never be shared with the feds. Only in the most lawyer bullshit word gymnastics could you arrive at the conclusion there is nothing to see here. You are being intellectually dishonest.

i hate this writing style so much. i have to do extra work fighting autocorrect to make it seem like i just rolled out of bed and typed it out on my phone. i am so smart, see, i don't care about Big Establishment Grammar, my ideas are so good it will pierce through

Is this open source? Is it local browser API calls, or routing through your server?

tokens are tokens

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> Almost nobody applies critical thought to politics

Including you. This is a 3000 year old critique you just uncritically parroted. It is the the original thought terminating cliche. People have always been calling each other ideologically brainwashed NPCs and themselves independent maverick free thinkers.

Except my thoughts are original and critical, everyone else is just a sheep. /s

It's called feudalism. The lords have a monopoly not just on the means of production, they own the full stack of society and economy in their domain.

We had a few very violent revolutions and civil wars to get out of feudalism and patronage, and I can't believe how many techies want to take us back.

Because this was written by an LLM

It's so obvious mate, the Velocity is Not Progress section is the worst.

W-hat?

> KTLO

Keep The Lights On?

Just think if any EU business didn't have to pay the Microsoft tax or the open source TCO tax/labor, because there is a non-profit full-stack solution running at cost. Make any business out of the EU pay retail rates to subsidize development. It would be a huge competitive advantage. Just like payments have become so much easier in the EU over the past decade.

Because the entire rest of society has wrapped itself around Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram. It is easy to be a free software purist until you need to know if your child's school has a snow day. Websites and mailing lists are dead. I cannot be involved in my child's school or any of the informal social networks around the parents and teachers without using Meta's platforms. I cannot volunteer at a non-profit I care deeply about without using Meta's platforms, because that's what they have to coordinate.

Are you going to suggest to me that I should force them onto Signal and a pile of other DIY platforms? I dare you. Look a burned out parent in their bloodshot eyes first.

It was pretty basic models for tasks like weather forecasting and simulating nuclear reactions. We've come a long way on both the software modeling and hardware front.

Even if you are a GAI / super intelligence booster, the limiting factor is clearly software and data. If it is possible, the big tech AI labs already have all the compute they need to make one deployment work. Hardware is limiting for deploying at scale and at a profit.

> If AI systems continue to improve at the current rate and we combine that with improvements in hardware that are measured in orders of magnitude every 15 years or so then it stands to reason that we'll get that "super-intelligent GAI" system any day now.

Oh come off it now. This could have been just a good blog post that didn't make me want to throw my phone across the room. GenAI is a hell of a drug. It's shocking how many technical professionals fall into the hype and become irrationally exuberant.

> But you don't call that cooking.

Software work today is closer to fast food work than it has ever been, even before gen AI. College students graduating from solid CS programs are flipping burgers right now because the job market has collapsed.

I fucking hate it, but what is there to do about it?