This seems very useful, I just wonder whether it can interface with other digital components easily.

Next healthcare?

Nowadays, being free or paid doesn’t change anything about it actually.

Folks, we have the most INCREDIBLE announcement today. Maybe the best in the history of announcements, many people are saying it. We’re launching the beautiful Maxest app — and by the way, it was my idea, nobody else could have thought of this. It will come pre-installed on every phone. The fake news media will try to tell you it’s some kind of “spy app” - WRONG! Totally wrong!

The Democrats don’t want you to have this amazing technology. They want you to stay uninformed! But we’re giving you the most beautiful, most secure app ever created. Our cyber experts — the best in the world, probably the best who have ever lived — they built walls around this app.

Other countries will be so jealous of our app, they’ll probably try to steal it. But they can’t, because it’s AMERICAN MADE!

It’s funny that the exact same thing happened in Brazil during Bolsonaro. When the pandemic peaked, the Federal government simply sit down while the States themselves (literally all States) joined and negotiated the vaccines for Brazil bypassing the Federal role.

In fact, I think at least in Brazil Reddit is becoming more and more popular. Go back like 5 years ago and Brazilian subs in Portuguese were small and low-traffic except for one or two (ex: /r/brasil).

Now there are a bunch of different themes and I see new topics being discussed quite often.

I believe the reason is Facebook has enshittified so much that its communities are dying quickly and Brazilians are finding Reddit works better for simple discussions. Also no one posts anything personal on FB anymore, it’s all Instagram style reposts so it lost any purpose.

Which means in the long run the cost will get down to 0.

The moment the code and redistribution rights are out in the open, anyone who tries to charge for it faces competition from people charging less — and eventually from people charging nothing. The economic pressure pushes the price down to the cost of copying, which in the digital world is effectively zero.

Exactly, the one big issue with the modern world is the algorithms pushing for engagement as the only important metric.

This is spot on. The issue with any system is that people don’t pay attention to the incentives.

When a surgeon earns more if he does more surgeries with no downside, most surgeons in that system will obviously push for surgeries that aren’t necessary. How to balance incentives should be the main focus on any system that we’re part of.

You can pretty much understand someone else’s behavior by looking at what they’re gaining or what problem they’re avoiding by doing what they’re doing.

It makes sense, and in the long term even LLMs will need more efficient hardware if it will stick around in affordable prices.

It reminded me of an older writing about it:

Open source doesn’t make money because it isn’t designed to make money

You’re allowed, but as long as anyone else can do it for free, you can’t build a business model on selling it. At most you can sell something else (support, cloud compute, some solution that makes using it easier etc.).

More processing might result in more water use, but storage? It makes no actual sense. Having more stuff sitting in your storage isn’t making your computer hotter.

In fact, I guess creating a guideline for servers to use more efficient processors would do much more for that.

Unfortunately game theory says we’re gonna do it whenever it’s technologically possible.

Think about the number of articles they can write considering the infinity of random shit an LLM can output.

I was gonna say that, probably the higher the abstraction level the best it is for LLMs to reason about the code, because once learned it’s less tokens.

Hopefully this will happen sooner than later and change people’s minds about the whole thing.

If you think about it, the majority of the world population never knew anything different than dystopia.

In a sense, the article is tailored to a certain public that has a reasonably good life now and is naturally afraid to lose it.

But the truth is the world is (and always has been) very shitty for the majority of people on the planet when you consider the distribution of wealth.

I think it’s important to think about who are the winners and losers in this whole thing. Are these execs so altruist that they’re worried about the average person or is this doom prediction something that serves their agenda?

Yeah, this has been reported on multiple analysis over time. Until something in the hardware space changes, it’s gonna be an unprofitable business.

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