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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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That would be the case if corporations owned all the LLMs. However, it is possible to run open weights LLMs locally on your one hardware.
It's possible to buy music, too, but most people rent it from spotify. Most people aren't going to do the comparably hard thing of setting up their own LLM.
And even if they did run their own well tuned, ethical, LLM to write letters for them, that still leaves us with the problem of "people aren't developing core skills like writing"
Here's a fun question: Do you own the music you buy on a CD? Or is the CD just the license to listen to music that belongs legally to someone else?
Depends on what you mean by "own".
Buying the CD has a key difference from Spotify in that no one can (typically) take the cd away from you. Music disappears from Spotify all the time. You can also (typically) copy it to other storage. And, most relevant to the topic of rent vs buy, you just pay for it once and you're done. No subscription, no ads. That stuff is important to me.
You can't usually take music you got from a CD and put it in your movie, for example, but that's a whole conversation about fair use and copyright.
I understand completely but your argument is more medium based than ownership based, that was my only real point.