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hard times make good leaders, good leaders make soft times, soft times make bad leaders, bad leaders make hard times

> (even though it'll probably still get there in the end)

Burning up tokens/credits needlessly as it does so. That might be a non-issue for people using LLMs through their work but as someone doing AI on a limited budget that's an issue that drives me up a tree!

Of course they can. They're expensive to host, and if they're legally scrubbed off of places like huggingface then they are for all practical purposes 'closed' as in unavailable to people who don't already use them and if they're illegal or outpaced by Sota the ones who have copies can't even use them.

Ok. And I'm supposed to do what with this information, exactly?

Considering the tendency even now of LLMs to hallucinate, and the hardware requirements for any kind of LLM -why not just gather those resources into some sort of local archive that can be searched without an LLM?

This seems redundant and requiring more overhead while providing less reliability than something like Kiwix to me.

Democracy has been deprecated in the United States, and will be removed in a future 'election'.

It may be more pleasant to work outside -or it may not (it's almost winter here in Alaska -that would be a hard pass for me!). but no -it's definitely not the same, as you pointed out.

>It's hard to offer people a better tomorrow, but AI has already changed the world for the better, and will continue to change it.

As long as you ignore the ecological damage from data centers and the jobs lost by AI -yeah, it's all sunshine and roses over here!

That was completely accidental and they themselves tried to close the barn door with the PS/2 line in 1987 but at that point it was too late.

>And when they found out you stole it and claimed it as your own, they weren’t impressed?

This needs to be emphasized.

Basically they realized it was droppings from the theft machine when they'd been told it was original content and they felt betrayed and disgusted -reasonably so, I might add.

There's no way the future is good, near term or long term. Not unless you're a part of that specific class.

I took buspar for like 4 years because it basically didn't scramble my brains the way other anti-depressants worked and I could say I was 'cooperating' with treatment -despite getting no benefit from it.

I had no issues getting off of it; not to say that other people don't either -they very well might.

>The question is, what do you do as the new administration coming in?

I'm not assuming that there will be another administration, everything points to the US continuing down the road it's on.

>Is this also true of Linux?

It is not, nor of open source software in general.

In general, the saying is specifically in reference to services provided over the internet -gmail, youtube, whatever. Note that you don't have the right to modify them and share your own copies -they're closed source.

So no, it's not true of Linux, GNU, etc; it's an apples and oranges comparison.

It doesn't have to be a specific concern. It's better to remove the option than to find out later that you've gotten burned by something you had no way to anticipate.

Don't take chances, give as little as possible. Better to assume you'll get burned somehow and leave it off.

I can't reproduce it, so I don't buy it.

I'm not a big believer in valerian, based on my experience. It's certainly not a stand-in when it comes to treating panic attacks. For sleep, it could work but I generally tend to prefer melatonin.

I was on oxycoton (among other things) for pain relief after heart surgery, and during recovery. That lasted about a month -I was worried because of my history of substance abuse but I think between being aware of that and knowing they would not be available later gave me the will power (if you can call it that) to taper off of them without much fuss.

I agree, it depends on what else is going on -and why you're taking things. No way in hell I could have gone that month without them, that's for sure.

>These drugs need to be banned. Period.

I've lived with that as well, but I've also spent months carved up (surgically) and there is no replacement for the role that they play medically.

I can't agree with a complete ban. It's better to get awareness out there about the harm they can do, and put better controls on access to them but not a ban.

I live with anxiety -there's no other drugs that work for it. Luckily I'm able to use DBT and straight up avoidence to cope with anxiety. But if I didn't have that last option then I'd be hosed -because there really is not anything that works effciently for treating anxiety; at least not in my personal experience (which goes back decades).

>They really are extremely effective drugs when used correctly. That's why the calls to ban them (as seen elsewhere in this thread) are not terribly compelling. There's no replacement for what they do.

>That said: do not abuse benzos. They will fuck you up.

This is pretty much my perspective, except I'd say that it doesn't even necessarily require abuse per se. I'd say just be very careful when using them, and get off of them ASAP. Myself, I only take them if there's a procedure of some sort they're called for.

I'd say awareness is more called for than a total ban. A total ban would be messed up because there is zero replacement for them for what they do -none.

No one questions if they're helpful. But the danger and the severity needs to be more commonly known.

I certainly wouldn't want them removed -particularly after spending 4 months going through different surgical procedures where benzos were medically indicated. But awareness of the down-side is thin on the ground (from my perspective) and it's good to get out there.

I did everything under the sun, got sober, did klonopin for a bit to help with anxiety and was lucky -blessedly lucky that it didn't do too much for me.

My best friend was not so lucky and was on ativan and had the worst experience getting off of it, and had years of problems with it because it aggravated the anxiety she was already experiencing.

Benzodiazipenes (sp?) has it's medicinal uses, particularly with injury or surgery; but yeah -if you're not very careful and very lucky it's hell to get off of if you end up dependant on it.

I'm very glad to see the word is getting out and is more wide-spread. I hope that it doesn't result in a complete freakout the way that oxycotin did. It's vital when it's needed, hopefully it will remain available.

What gets me, as someone with chronic anxiety, is that they've only come up with one thing that reliably works -and it's this. It feels like the research stopped in the nineties or so. I often wonder wtf about that.

As much as I wish I could say you're right -I think that's unlikely. Please feel free to say "I told you so" in fifteen days, however. I'd love to be wrong!

don't forget youtube

The suggestion I encounter the most is that AI makes it redundant to take up programming as a hobby. or art. or music.

>It won't, for a very simple reason. The same reason why the world isn't in the middle of a nuclear winter right now. Mutually assured destruction.

An interesting take, which I honestly hadn't considered.

The problem remains that it is still a cudgel which larger companies can still use it to shut down smaller companies/free alternatives. I'm thinking a similar situation to the abuse of the DMCA -but we'll find out.

I guess I'm AI centrist lol but to me, I can see a way around the 'threat' to humanity issue simply by going local and avoiding the use of datacenter ai. That might reduce the quality of code but running it on your own computer is a lot better -at least IMO.

My issues, personally, are the IP rights issues. What was this shit trained on? When the bubble pops (as I've said a lot in this thread -I know) who's going to shake me down?

>Linus's take is just the same nonsensical false equivalence I've seen a million times. He sure has fallen a long way since his glory days.

After the SCO mess, I'm very shocked he didn't reject AI out of hand simply for the provenance and liability issues.

And what happens when the AI bubble pops and the various publishers and IP rights holders come around with their hands out claiming 86Box stole their code ala' SCO?

AI code is legally nebulous and relying on it for a serious project has major risks. Linux has already fended off SCO and has deep pockets to boot. Not all open source projects do.

More projects should be thinking less about the 'moral' issues (yes, they exist) and more about the nuts and bolts province and liability issues of using unverifiable code.

Yes, Linux uses it -because they're big and professional and have allies like IBM and Microsoft (ironies of ironies) on their side.

YOU do not.

For anyone else wondering (as I was), I got the following from a quick google (it's AI -so bear that in mind), apologies for the crap format:

The website independent.co.uk (The Independent) is owned and published by Independent Digital News & Media Ltd. [1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent), [2] (http://www.mediaownership.ie/outlet.php?uuid=9e052d2a-d0d5-4...)

Its primary shareholders include:

[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent) • Evgeny Lebedev (https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=%2Fm%2F05lmj3j&q=Evgeny+...) (approx. 41%) – Russian-British businessman and media owner.

• Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (approx. 30%) – Saudi investor (via a 2017 stake).

• Justin Byam Shaw (https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=%2Fg%2F11fxx2vbk4&q=Just...) (approx. 26%) – British businessman. [1] (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40762906), [2] (https://pressgazette.substack.com/p/independent-to-take-over...), [3] (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40762906), [4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent)