Technology

I am so jealous of this guy's ability to lie. I'm just so crap at it, I end up just telling the truth.

I'm interested to see what kind of hardware will produce "good enough" AI capabilities in a couple years as things are refined and tuned further. The gap between the absolutely massive commercial models and open source models keeps shifting but I don't have the same fear that I had a few years ago that it might not be possible to get good results from anything less than millions of dollars worth of hardware.

For real. It's like imagining metered electrical generation becoming the norm if solar was already cheaper and easier to install. Like if it wasn't for decades of hydro and fossil fuel being the cheaper more flexible option it never would of made sense to focus so much on metered connections in the first place (and increasingly making less sense now...).

They will have to have some enforced mechanism to "franchise the sunshine" as they old saying went to prevent a world where they (big SaaS AI) are not clearly the option of last resort.

Even big corp and government world is increasingly "sovereign AI" focused now, just like hybrid cloud almost always makes more sense at certain level of IT infrastructure maturity.

There's a name for that already: technofeudalism.

Dude outside of the technology difference. We are at a point most surfs in feudalistic societies had less problems to deal with then we do.

Like when you start accounting for betterment in medicine and farming alone. The avg joe would likely have a less stressful life under feudalism. Most people just want to be left alone, work an honest job, and have time to raise a family or at least spend time with them.

The problem is not that they're trying to turn us back into a feudalistic society. They're trying to turn us into a corpitocracy or an oligarchy. While, a feudalistic society can have a lot of the same similarities as an oligarchy or corporatocracy. They tend to be far more for the people and fair.

Feudalism would unironically be an absolute ideal outcome if we had to choose between the three.

Is at least in a feudalistic society. The farmers would own the their own land and there's not much the big corporations would be able to do about that. It would actually elevate a lot of farmers in large landowners onto the same playing field as the big businesses that have a lot of money but not a lot of land.

If anything it would put them at a disadvantage cuz now they would have to fight an uphill battle to gain more land that they need to expand for these data centers.

Ideally we don't go to any of them lol

Right now it just makes more sense to not use the API directly, but the subscriptions, they seem to be better priced. Also, Anthropic seems to be more expensive...

How that will look in the future, I don't know, I'm fairly sure they're progressively increasing the price, or rather reduce the amount of tokens you can use in the subscription (as they did with gpt 5.5 and claude opus 4.7). The chinese competitors are getting increasingly more interesting. It's also quite impressive how well small models like qwen 3.6 27B run already on a (not so affordable) 24+GB GPU, unfortunately still far from the quality of say gpt 5.5, but probably comparable to o4 or something like that, certainly usable.

He just wants money

I do begrudge them. Their service was created through mass copyright infringement

It's a billionaire. I begrudge it for its mere existence.

Rent-seeking has entirely replaced innovation in modern capitalism.

I feel like I spend months trying to find the right phrase the people will understand when I mention llms, since I refuse to call these things artificial intelligence.

My favorite thus far, are "spicy autocorrect" and "next words calculator." The fact that it has all of the compendium of human knowledge on physics or last millennium economics, means it is an excellent research assistant and engineering consultant, as long as I can keep in mind that it's going to lie to me with impunity and with utmost confidence every fourth question I ask.

The Google AI overview is so often wrong when I ask it basic questions like who is in a TV show or movie, it's unfucking believable. I'm very anti-Ai. It only creates bad, not good

https://youtu.be/FQpZdCKgc6w

This is one of the hardest points for me to articulate, trying to convince everyday folks including families and friends that these Technologies are actively making us dumber.

Wiring up a solar and battery array, and then wiring up an entire miniature rack mount full of tech myself using 'AI' was absolutely critical in understanding the Nuance between different products and between different wiring schemes, but I realized after about 3 months that I was spending at least 15 times a day asking about the ampacity of different wire gauges ("how much current can this gauge of wire carry safely? What about that gauge of wire?") Before I finally just made a table of common wire gauges in both aluminum and copper, and then printed it out and tacked it onto my wall like it was still 1997.

I reduced my net time spent querying by at least 20% in the past month by looking at my patterns.

This isn't a brag. This is me admitting that I got stupid and then I'm forgetting the power isn't knowing stuff but in having that knowledge at our fingertips, and that asking some mega Data Center two states away to boil half their freshwater and brown out half their town so that I can be told that I really do have to up my wiring material, makes me feel gross.

Only profits and power matters to these people. They will happily destroy peoples lives. Sam Altman is an obvious psychopath. Zuckerberg is less open with his real thoughts after he said "dumb fucks", but equally ruthless. Musk lacks empathy and is autistic and doesn't understand human emotions. Trump is a narcissist.

These are the people who drives Ai.

stall critical thinking skills and knowledge

That's the point. They want people dumb so they can sell "intelligence" to people.

Until they remove libraries