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  • Would they actually be able to afford it? Investors have been throwing endless amounts of money onto the fire but in OpenAI’s case at least, it was all essentially bought like “I’ll pay you later, trust me”, right?

    I’d assume convincing companies twice that you’re trustworthy enough to buy the world’s supply of RAM with an IOU wouldn’t be possible but I guess I thought the same thing for the first time as well

    edit: either way, I’d take a longer period of expensive RAM if it meant a giant “fuck you” to the AI companies





  • Also I’m curious how many folks on this instance are even under 35

    Just about 29 here! Overall I’d say I hate AI as does everyone around me my age that I know. I do think current iterations of LLMs, specifically for programming cases, are useful but only when restricted to an advisor role rather than writing any code itself.

    If you ask an LLM about how to use a certain library or module and you go and fact check its’ answer then its not really any different than général internet research IMO.

    Ignoring programming though:

    Fuck any type of AI creative media or work. It’s so god damn dystopian to offshore human creativity to fucking computers









  • I’m not sure we’re talking about the same people here. I’d hesitantly lend more sympathy to an American soldier more broadly fighting in this war but not to those who directly commit war crimes whether that be shooting (and worse) children or knowingly dropping bombs on schools or hospitals.

    Anyone who doesn’t immediately know that’s wrong has something severely wrong with them

    edit: and also yeah, regarding your point about Canada doesn’t really change anything. I’d feel exactly the same way regarding any Canadian soldier doing the same thing. While Canada is feeling quite nice right now compared to the USA, we’ve done and continue to do some absolutely vile shit, no question


  • Have you actually read into some of the shit Americans have done? I wouldn’t even want to fucking cooperate with anyone who took part in the My Lai massacre or anything else like that.

    To copy/paste from Wikipedia:

    The Mỹ Lai Massacre […] was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12.

    (emphasis mine)

    edit: oh and the most justice that came of that was that one person got house arrest for three years