All Ice In Chains

On this day, AGI was achieved for the 11,927th time.

🙏 Inshallah

The problem is always techbros. Large Language Models, Deep Learning, these kinds of things are potentially valuable when put to work in the right arena.

A techbro will never put them in the right arena. It’s always a false promise built on flimsy reputational credit.

Valid on both points.

I’m surprised the Bezos count is so low (so far), it’s not like he values the sanctity of life or anything.

Truscape’s answer is pretty comprehensive but to recontextualize it: In some places there’s functionally zero risk, in fact degrading the US entertainment/media economy might actually be seen as a national benefit. In most western countries it actually is sticking their neck out, though how much depends largely on the location. I think Sweden (or Iceland?) actually had a political party called the Pirate Party which espoused it on some philosophical grounds.

Valid question, I’ve heard of people just dumpster-diving and getting computers with working components but I’m sure there’s places that just wholesale old PC’s from schools and businesses for cheap, presumptively after wiping them (one hopes).

The decentralized nature of torrenting plus being in a country that doesn’t care counts for a lot. After that, you pretty much just get the cheapest storage you can, maybe even use reclaimed e-waste drives. You’d be amazed what some people just toss.

Didn’t thermal goggles already do this? Seems to have an extraordinarily limited use case unless you live in a really big building with lots of routers.

The only way that China could troll the US any harder is if they went back to the moon, picked up the American flag, replaced it with a Chinese flag, and then told the Americans to come up and fix it.