Quexotic

Further context to the current situation for those that don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU

Anthropic's statement: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/d5Lqf8nSxm6RpmmnA/anthropic-statement-from-dario-amodei-on-our-discussions

“Pentagon reaches deal with OpenAI amid Anthropic beef”: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5760495-pentagon-deal-openai-trump-hegseth-anthropic/

Makes sense, he isn't powerful enough that it would be valuable to have leverage against.

For the moment, I haven't had the motivation to switch everything over to Linux, but it is coming down the line. To that end, I do know how to set up models and windows, and it's not all that hard, but what is the specific model name? Is it just the Quen 8b?

Come to think of it, I might actually be able to install the flat pack into the Windows subsystem for Linux if it behaves the way I think it's supposed to.

Could be a very interesting experiment.

I swear to God if you were paid by Lexus I'm going to just totally lose my faith in humanity. That said, that was a wonderful piece of writing and I thank you for writing it.

It reminds me of one of my favorite songs, "just wait" "there's no such thing as a failure that keeps trying, coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace."

Its a flawed song, but got me through some real hard times.

I guess we better unionize now, huh?

I've tried a number of local models and even the 8b models aren't that good. Unless there's some insane breakthrough, much better hardware will be required to get the kind of results that would be timely enough or high quality enough to be useful.

So it might drive the kind of performance enhancement that will be needed to truly democratize and make the technology accessible, but until then more performance is needed.

My 2024 laptop has basically increased $800 or so in price because of the buy ups. This will either drive optimization or kill progress or maybe some of each on a continuum.

I also firmly believe that part of the storage and ram buy-up was intended to make higher end compute further out of reach of us plebs, forcing us further into the “everything as a service" model and that corporate AI is a big bet that they can lay off even more people </foil hat time>

That said, if you found good results with qwen, 8b, dm me a link for the specific model, I'd love to try it. I'm still a hobbyist. 😁

Couldn't tell you what I was thinking a week ago.

Absolutely. The courts are too slow to be an effective safeguard, not that that's their only issue though.

I see secondhand hardware and indie devs winning out. I see local AI suffering too. Almost as if they're trying to keep it to themselves.

Why would they ever do that?

This is all true. I will add a personal insight.

I wasn't able to have a really good deep and healthy relationship until I was willing to accept myself and let go of perfection.

To be clear, I hadn't fully accepted myself when the good started, I just began accepting myself.

Friend, you are enough as you are.

Gravity go up, gravity go down!

Sometimes I worry about LLMs taking my job, sometimes I don't.

I guess you're right because there's an awful lot of nitrates, nitrites and salts in those things and they're mass produced so I guess there are a lot of long-term health costs involved.

These might help you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader