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As long as somebody with big $ decides: "let's make it 40!"

Only through regulations mandating interoperability and enforced at national level. This is social problem, not technological one. So technology won't solve it

Let's not forget that, at the same time, Google forces every developer of any Android app to register in the Google database using an ID scan, otherwise no one can install it.

All for the sake of "dear user safety".

Does it really save the screen? ;P

Let's say, then, that it's not so much "dumb and wasteful" as "energy inefficient". In fact, this can be quite wise in a modern world full of surveillance-as-a-business and "us-east-1 disasters"

Can you elaborate the last statement? Don't quite understand why loading local LLM to GPU RAM, using it for the job and then "ejecting" is "dumb and wasteful" idea?

Classic problem: "Who do you love more: mum or dad?" ;) Surely it's naive thinking but as the EU citizen I feel like I've got a little more influence on "European censorship" than on any other. I suppose that ASML feels the same way

Maybe it can not spy on you but models can be totally (e.g. politically) biased depending on the country of origin. Try to ask european-, us- or china-trained models about "Tiananmen Massacre" and compare the answers. Or consider Trump's recent decisions to get rid of "woke" AI models.

"The story, then, is everywhere. It is the founding myth of our system of economic relations. It is so deeply established in common sense, even in places like Madagascar, that most people on earth couldn’t imagine any other way that money possibly could have come about. The problem is there’s no evidence that it ever happened, and an enormous amount of evidence suggesting that it did not.”

"Debt", David Graeber

Great and very emotional (at least for me) story. Thanks for sharing.

It's always nice to hear that internet is still fun for ppl

Does 'Приго́жин' relate somehow to infamous 'Евгений Пригожин'. Or am I just biased?