I think you’re in a way conflating two problems. One is policy and private investment in AI and the other is personal LLM use.

The first is stupid irrespective of the underlying economic system. They’re literally using environmental resources that are scarce and our taxes to fund these unnecessary data centers.

The second is something different. I think of it as being able to hire someone to do something for you. You could hire someone to do your homework for you which would be really stupid because it’s essential you do that. Most people didn’t do it not because they had restraint but because it cost too much. With LLMs you just reduced the cost.

I honestly think if the public subsidization of LLMs stopped and policy made them actually pay taxes and environmental regulation fines or for mitigation measures, we would see the actual cost and most frivolous use will stop.

It’ll probably be limited to institutional use and helping doctors summarize notes etc.

The other aspect is probably correct safe guard for the tool. You don’t need to ban calculators for ever. You just need to ban them at stages of education where the students need to practice the underlying operations to learn, i.e. probably up to the end of high school.

Unfortunately I don’t think caution is a virtue that is rewarding in most circumstances to most people. New tools need to be extensively and rigorously tested before being used.

I don’t even think it’s a individualism/capitalism thing unfortunately. I’ve been in cultures/societies that are not either and both still use these tools to further their goals. It’s just power at the end of the day.

It’s like the nuclear bomb. It doesn’t really matter what the underlying economic system of US or USSR were, they still used it to further their goals.

I think the insidiousness is in the power of the tool. For most people it’s just too powerful to not use. I can be an excellent photographer or artist and not make a dime if I don’t engage in social media.

For me that’s the sad thing. Self-hosted small models have been extremely useful to me to perform selective tasks that completely changed how things work. It’s allowed me to manage my research and information processing so much better. But I also know most people don’t put any limiters on it and use it for anything and everything.

It’s a powerful tool that people are using without restraint. I think this to be expected in the first few years after any new powerful tool is found. Humans will find a way to mess it up.

See radium cosmetics and ideas to dig the Panama canal using hydrogen bombs. Social media is probably as much or even more dangerous than LLMs.

These people are not immigrants? The country of China was created around them and they have the right to speak and use their language as anyone of Han descent might?

The ship was waiting to surrender to Sri Lanka I think. There was another one that had priority that did surrender while the one that was hit was next in line.

That’s the sad reality right now though. To reach the crazies you need people who can get to them. The way things are, they see every outside criticism as invalid and unimportant. You need someone who can cut across that.

They couldn’t be even bothered to do the decent thing at this point and train and arm the rebels! /s

Keepa which gives a chart on every Amazon page or camelcamelcamel

It’s making fun of the popularity of pumkin spice stuff in certain demographics.

I mean if you’re going fast enough with a pointy train, you could chop up people pretty easy. You just need to make sure that each person is a tire width apart to make sure the wheels don’t lose traction. Assuming a person is roughly half a metre across and a tire is 75cm in diameter, we get 1.25m per person, so a track of 1250km for a million people. Not very long at all.

You see later that she was a blood purist and tortured only those who she thought of as blood traitors or whatever. That’s par on course with people who sided with voldemort. After the quidditch world cup the death eaters tried to torture a muggle family, including the children I think.

That isn’t the fault of the language though. It does what it was designed to well. Maybe it is I’ll suited to achieve things it wasn’t designed to do?

I could absolutely write code to do data analytics with C and gnuplot, does that mean they’re the appropriate tools for doing that when pandas, SPSS, Julia or matlab exists? Probably not.

Ooof. I was so excited when I first saw the paper and realised how easy it was to make.

Try to not be reactive. Take appropriate action whenever needed but choose to act after a delay so that you aren’t responding impulsively. In my experience 90% of conversations that were problematic could have been avoided if either party chose to walk away or take a break.

Really? I find that css is pretty much the ugly part of html. Html is no worse than markdown or latex. If you just wrote plain HTML and were okay with how it rendered, you would have nicely structured code.

I mean semantic html seems like a pretty okay markup language.

It’s a word play that many people find funny. It’s also a call back to something you might have done as a newbie when messing around that people find funny, like talking about that time you thought tried to wash okra after chopping or mixed coloured and white clothes in the laundry. A horrifying experience when it happens but something that you usually find funny later on in retrospect.

Apart from that sudo in Linux comes with enough warning labels to say that it should only be used when you know what you’re doing. Running unknown commands on terminal is dangerous, like trying to play with the stuff under the hood in a car. Both of these facts are abundantly made clear with big red warning signs in every single reputable source you look up for any popular distro.

That’s exactly the kind of people who run ml sadly.

This is super interesting. But why isn’t HTML or CSS a similar mess? I found their structure to be more logical than JS. Parts of JS feels like it’s intended as a backend language but parts of it don’t.

Made me lol :)