boppo1

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Comment · 22 days ago

That would only work if we agreed on what a replacement regime would look like. Faith in our regime is low, but the 'revolutionary' replacements are the DSA on one side, who mean well but are unbelievably naive[0] and on the other... Idk ancap wignats or something? Before the people equipped to put that amendment to use do so, I think there needs to be some sort of idea of what they're fighting for. There's a lot of stuff about how we gotta fight for democracy, but it's democracy itself that got us here.

One might point out the yale study that shows we don't have democracy, but if that's true, idk how one would implement a democracy that doesn't get co-opted the way ours has. Most of the ideas I see are not actually democratic. There's a lotof "well, democracy would work if only people / ideas that agree with my correct political views should be allowed to power" which isn't democracy, it's authoritarianism. Plato established a long time ago that benevolent authoritarianism is preferable to democracy, but the problem is humans aren't really good at implementing it. When authoritarians of any ilk get power, they tend to step on someone, no matter how good their intentions are.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RWsHLvBntg In this interview Megan Romer, who is basically party leadership, explains 'Authority in the DSA is when we vote at the convention every two years'. The lack of structure is extremely ripe for bad actors.

Comment · 1 month ago

I run my agents in a docker container

how easy is it for them to get out?

Comment · 3 months ago

I wish he was still making posts.

Comment · 3 months ago

lol they made a movie about this called minority report.

Comment · 4 months ago

Have you tried qwen 27b q4_K_XL? It's a little bigger than the 4080 but not too much

Comment · 4 months ago

Have you considered this may never happen? What if datacenters continue to swallow all capacity?

Comment · 4 months ago

>can train insainly powerful models on my laptop

Can you give an example or two?

Comment · 4 months ago

>Tech companies should ignore it and just publicly name whoever attempts to prosecute them

The most powerful tech companies are in favor of this.

Comment · 4 months ago

Didn't the Combine give humans immortality?

Comment · 4 months ago

I took multiple econ classes in college. Just because it's in the books doesn't mean it's true. Not to mention some of the books we studied were contributed to by people involved in the interventionist monetary regime. LIRP scooped the guts out of the middle class & handed it to the tech industry and I've seen nothing convincing to the contrary. Expecting everyday people to learn about inflation and manage a portfolio to try and make sure their earnings aren't eroded is borderline class-war. And I'm no socialist.

Comment · 4 months ago

>That in aggregate makes the economy much worse.

Does it really? A lot of our problems seem to stem from conspicuous consumption. People will still need things (food shelter clothing) and that will motivate purchasing. "Oh n0es people won't buy flavor of the month consumer garbage, what ever will we do" just doesn't track.

Comment · 4 months ago

How did a guy who wrote that "gold and economic freedom" wind up running two decades of LIRP?

Comment · 4 months ago

I always wondered how someone who wrote that could go on to chair the fed with LIRP policies that fueled crazy asset bubbles.

Comment · 4 months ago

What about blender?

Comment · 4 months ago

I have almost your system specs, how do they work for non-coding stuff like chat/knowledge/discussion? I've been using models to talk through social stuff I'm anxious about but dont want to annoy my friends with and it's been amazing, but I don't want to share that info with google/openai/anthropic anymore. I shouldn't have in the first place, but I couldn't help it, the exercise was too interesting.