pmoriarty

The people who own these companies have more money than they, their families, and their extended families can spend for generations. None of them have to work a day in their life no matter what happens to these companies.

Same with a lot of their investors, who will be just fine without the "insane profits" they hope for.

I'm not worried about their welfare, and won't shed a tear if their companies collapse.

One of countless mistakes made by the current administration. Decimating research funding and firing many scientists is another.

> It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world

Do blind people not have a place in the surrounding world?

> all meaningful questions can be settled empirically

This is a logical positivist view, that not everyone agrees with.

Why would you need the LLM to be running on the device itself? Wouldn't it be more efficient for the intelligence to be more centralized? Maybe in one central computer per home, or (probably even more desirable for corporations) for the devices to phone home to a centralized server at the service provider in the cloud somewhere.

Speech also has a lack of privacy, and it can annoy people nearby.

Imagine everyone on public transport speaking in to their phones to navigate and control them.

A microphone sensitive to subvocalization could maybe get around some of these problems, but it'd still be kind of weird.

Same use case as for Discord and Slack, only it's not centralized or owned by any corporation.

> Usenet could exist only because people could behave, unfortunately. I can't even begin to imagine what kind of shitfest Usenet as a social media platform would turn into today.

Spam filtering has improved a lot since the Usenet days, but even if it hadn't we had killfiles to deal with the spam and filtering out harrasers. Doing this today would be even easier with the help of LLMs.

> Yes. usenet, however, used to be social media. It was like text-only reddit.

Except, unlike Reddit, it wasn't centralized nor owned by a single corporation.

Usenet users did not have to obey the rules and whims of any corporation and there was thriving ecosystem of feature rich, free and open Usenet clients.

I really miss having my own killfiles and regex search abilities that were common on Usenet clients, but is missing from the Reddit clients and its web UI.

> I am starting to wonder is archiving or scanning history even possible with how hostile internet has become.

Future generations are going to be looking at a historical black hole.

> I firmly believe this shortage is artificially produced and I really hope chinese manufacturers flood the market and make memory as cheap as toilet paper

I hope so too, but I'm afraid that if China ever blockades Taiwan, then current RAM/GPU prices will look like an incredible bargain.

> Utilities have to argue for rate increases and get them approved by regulators, so they’re not just dropping fees on top of everything as they please from month to month.

Do regulators ever reject rate increases that the utilities ask for?