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I am showing my bias openly. Glad you were biased in that direction to notice.

Yes, in the expected range but could have been worse so happy about it.

Who do you imagine I insulted? If you get something for $2 but you pay $70 what can I say about you that is nice?

At this point, are you using Deepseek flash 4.1 or is somebody else paying for your model usage unconstrained or are you a moron?

It reveals what they are to the public. It's fake crypto with all the downsides of crypto but none of the upsides.

Love the commitment by “Amishpunks”. I am all-in AI now but can imagine a future where I will be one of you guys.

You have to be a total imbecile to think that we are capable of collecting enough data to make such conclusions.

During a gold rush, sell shovels. They are investing heavily in in-house custom silicon, which is the shovel end of things. They could open more jewellery chains, but that is a very different kind of operation and it is in their interest to let others compete for that and use their resources on the shovel side of things.

This is not about merely running it for demo purposes; it’s about running things in production for generating actual value.

If the CCP was so advanced that they can implement these attacks in models released as .safetensors, I would assume that the government can pay multiple western frontier labs can show how and where this is done and publish it for anyone to reproduce in a sandbox.

In reality, the attack is much simpler: flood the market with genuine competition so that neutral parties (and their own corporations and that of their allies and potential allies) never have to be enslaved by the US corporations and hence they cannot be forced to join the US in sanctioning China.

This is much less risky as a strategy (imagine how bad getting caught doing the other thing would be) and works way better.

I think it was never OK to enjoy programming, at least if you were working professionally. If you enjoyed programming, I would always suspect that you were probably creating programs that were not needed, adding complexity, technical debt, security issues and long-term liability, for the sake of your personal enjoyment.

So someone should pay them their hard earned money for them to not have to solve problems that are actually relevant? They should never grow up to learn how things actually work and make contributions that actually matter?

For those who missed the point: this post is related to the Deepseek ban. You can't have open source AI models, because the "distilleries" don't like it.