Uli

In my opinion, being anti-AI or anti-LLM is much like being anti-chocolate. There are many good reasons to be anti-chocolate. It is very difficult to verify that a chocolate supply line does not include slave labor or child labor. I only know of one brand that even comes close. And the deforestation caused by farming can and does lead to climate change. Not to mention the addictive qualities and health effects of eating sugary candy.

It seems mostly bad and when you look at the numbers, I think we should all be against it. And yet, making these arguments tends to do very little to make people stop eating chocolate.

Yet, I could imagine a world where it's farmed sustainably, by people who are paid appropriately, and with proper guidance on nutrition and exercise, it could be consumed safely.

I have no problem with people saying they are anti-AI. But I'd just like to pause here to confirm whether maybe anti-AI is just our shorthand for anti-the-way-AI-is-right-now. Anti-the-companies-that-run-AI. I do not want noisy server farms taking up all the water of rural communities. I don't want all of our electricity to go towards LLMs that are already "intelligent" enough to tell us that the best most immediate way to prevent further climate change is to turn them off.

I'm not making this comment to promote one side or another. I'm just suggesting that we act strategically and try to be mindful about how polarization can appear from the outside. Being anti-AI likely persuades about as many people as being anti-chocolate. That is, very few. But if we could work towards more ethical AI, even if we don't plan to use it, just so our argument is more palatable to the masses, it could lower the use of AI overall.

So, I think it is worthwhile to get into the technical details of things like LLMs even if most of us here are fighting against such technologies. Just trying to add some nuance to a world that often feels way too polarized for me.

Do any of you like to go to the ISS in your free time? Just me? I'm never going to find someone who shares my hobbies.

But if they evolved to be right triangles with their sides marked by three dots, four dots, and five dots, then the message will be spot on.

Before it was just "I'll let you kw" which didn't make sense at all. Good work, opossum.

For those who have not heard it.

He has a theme song if you didn't know.

Well now you tell me.

What is all this water doing here? And you've gone into the water?? You are going to drown before you feed me and that is not the correct order.

Or the gas station near my house when they forget to turn the sign off.

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Reminds me of when I got my second ever flip phone, and while it was great with texts (which played cool data transmission sounds over nearby speakers) and it was the first one I had with a camera, the first-gen web browser they had on it simply took ages getting even an image to load over the cellular connection.

I was thinking, this is cool. I can actually web browse on my phone. Sort of. I figured the connection will get better over time and was generally optimistic about what a cell phone would someday be, but never did I think we'd be able to stream not just video but high-definition video over cell service like it's nothing. While I have a lot more experience and knowledge now, I've learned to hesitate before claiming anything is impossible.

It actually seems like a good design, in terms of being part of the landscape and able to survive natural disaster events. I could see myself designing a more modernized equivalent of this for fire and tornado resistance, though I think I would go with a smaller living room cemetery.