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Given all the commentary it's very clear you don't understand and have taken zero time to enlighten yourself on Private Spaces.

You do realize you can still create a work profile through things like Insular/Island, right?

It's insane people complain about these things when they're legitimately non-issues

Treating people and businesses ethically that don't reciprocate doesn't work, clearly. Those people and businesses cry in their milk while they do exactly the same thing. There are no ethics in play here.

But, hey if you want to defend billionaire narcissists that are destroying our planet and trying to take computing freedoms then I guess: you do you.

I find Sam Altman recent comments very "low" as well, neither matters. So in that case I think bounty hunters should just cold shoulder idiocracy and sell these to the underground. Let their customers be abused and complain about how OAI isn't protecting them. Each one of these types of events could cost them thousands of dollars in lost revenue and/or internal support.

The constraints will work against them long term. All this is doing is forcing people to look at how to run more with less. These companies are bloated beyond reality and have no incentive to optimize anything. They're starting out with access to everything and still producing very little tangible value comparative to the inputs. OAI and Anthropic represent the pure gluttony of the US tech bro market and it's not going to be the long term winner. It can't be lest the masses are cool at crowning these narcissists as kings.

Macbook Pro 14" Max M1 (64GB). Best Apple device I've owned and worth the investment at the time, especially given the prices now. It's still pretty great for being as old as it is. Have no intention to pay inflated prices, I'll ride it out.

This trope minimizes so many downsides of "frontier" models. When you can't do what you need to with a model it really isn't valuable - which is why subscriptions still exist. As soon as you're forced to pay actual token costs people who keep saying this will likely wish they had invested in something else earlier.

It's also very clear that providers are running variants of models, especially at the SotA levels. I wouldn't be surprised to find out at some point that 1-2 months after release OAI and Anthropic just run "good enough" quants to save themselves on inference (since they're losing money hand over fist). Another upside of local models is that I don't need to worry about model degradation at any given point.

I have the same plan and have never experienced that with K3. I have hit the limit within a 5 hour quota using Swarm, however.

These types of flip flop posts are the new security theater. One week Anthropic will post a doom and gloom about how open weight models running a fraction of a token per second on your Grandma's popped Android TV is a national security threat and the next week they'll tell you how awesome their 200+ billion parameter model is at doing something they don't actually allow you to do because they gatekeep all the normies. I really do hope history remembers them correctly, but I'm sure they'll be attributed as being a significant and load bearing linchpin during the new world order of LLMs.

Let me clarify my perspective here. You put the frontier providers at the top. That's probably representative of >80% of the total, global, inference. The other ones you mention? They're likely showcasing "green AI" as a differentiator, but comparatively, they likely represent a percent of global capacity.

And you don't get to put a feel good landing page from Meta and "declare victory" (I didn't) just the same. It means nothing because there isn't any accountability. Nice try.

The fact that you believe Meta, of all companies who's gone to great lengths to lie about their core business model, speaks volumes.

This also highlights my point: the norm is that the bulk of the inference and training providers have no goals.

They don't. The driver is ultimately responsible, as should OAI be. This is absolutely ridiculous that both Anthropic and OAI haven't had anyone jailed / fined for any of this.

I don't buy that - you can't distinguish. This sounds like a convenient way for people to say "my choice is better for the planet" with basically no basis.

Feel free to elaborate.

Pretty sure you're not able to use many models, besides local, if you need to guarantee where the energy produced powers them. I don't align with much of what's going on in frontier AI today. And I don't actually use it as much as I had been as I've invested in local hardware. But I'm still curious and continue to test frontier models on different tasks. My limited experience with Grok is that it's boundaries are much less rigid than Anthropic and OAI, IME.

But if the planet is the only consideration here you can't use any in of these models when pointing a finger at one. They're putting them wherever they can. And I'll be one of the first one to cheer some of these systems being dismantled after the fallout / when the US has some political leaders that have a spine again.

Not a fan of Elon but latest Grok gets shit done and isn't a narc model from Anthropic/OAI.

Because it's not as good IRL. I find that DS Flash does just as good of a job on most things.

I own one of these and wish I would have bought more. It's very handy for luggage and equipment that you don't want people alerted to an airtag. I use Elevation Labs Vault (10 year) and Capsule (5 year) products which are very high quality products. I stash the tag in a location on all of my recreational vehicles / trailers. I would have removed the speaker from the tags anyway, but this makes it a 30 second product. I'm sure someone will 3D scan the unit (it's very simple) and the pin can easily be machine. I think their pin design was bad anyway as it gets jammed in the tag and there's no nub to twist and pull it out. Definitely an oversight in their design. Even if they have a patent on it working around it with a better design is trivial.

You're not lying to the police in this situation if you've ever done anything ever remotely related to work on the "faux" phone only. That is still considered the "whole truth" in that scenario and would be easy to defend. It's absolutely absurd we need to even think ahead like this, but cops are (mostly) dumb enforcement. They don't actually know the laws in-depth and in many cases do not abide by them - which is the root of labeling them as such. Beating a cop at the game they're playing is not hard, you just have to know every question they ask is loaded and for a reason.

American here, I'm not sure you're understanding the world we're living in right now based on this comment.

I wonder why... o_O

> If your claim here is that most of the comments so far are astroturfers or similar, ignore the rest of this line. If it isn't, I'd recommend that you read TFA in its entirety... or go back and read it more carefully if you already did. A sizeable section of the essay talks about what I think you're gesturing at.

100% in alignment. It almost seems like this is AI boosters looking to set the conversational agenda early to sway any dissent from happening. Real conversations are becoming harder and harder to have.

This is the thing: they probably AI summarized it. Because in today's world: why read for yourself and enjoy the nuance of a human generated work? Most of the comments in this thread are, unfortunately defending the thing that will make them less useful and less relevant in the context that they want to "win" this argument. It's going to be a wild ride down. Enjoy your electrolytes.

Share examples outside of tech. The simple: we're winning / their losing without context sounds cheeky but doesn't help anyone understand your perspective.

So what has an "LLM" truly improved in your life outside of simplistic automations/code generation/textual work? It's definitely not improved support. The only support interaction that I've noted to be somewhat better was one (of a few) with Amazon where the bot was able to refund a purchase without talking to a real person. But even then it was a case wherein a human would have probably done it just as quick. Is there a win there? Sure: for Amazon but it didn't "delight" me. And a chatbot is the lowest of low hanging fruit all the "optimists" claim an LLM can do so much better than humans or deterministic code.

How would you say LLMs are impacting the markets? Do you think they're useful to the economy thus far? Or are you looking at the spend of a small fraction of companies that could cause a broader recession when the cyclical funding dries up? If you're going to go to open weight models - well those don't appear out of thin air. Is your focus on the win/loss truly that myopic?

Again, your statement seems absurd to me. I think most people can agree there are useful modalities with LLMs. But it's always at a cost and I, like the author of the article, don't think that LLMs are as universally useful as many "optimists" believe. But to say that the pessimists can't actually rationalize their thoughts, when you provide none of your own, is truly foot in mouth garbage.

If it looks like a pig, smells like a pig and sounds like a pig...

They're not operating on behalf of a local government if they're selling the public data of that local government to others. This is not a simple "contracted work" by a local government. Please don't normalize this as something it's not.

From others. Not mass surveillance by a private corporation.

Otherwise maybe I'll just set up my own cameras in public locations. If the police want the data they can pay per minute of footage. I'll let them search for metadata and tell them if footage matches with no visibility to the footage until after payment. If they search for something and don't purchase but come back for it - it's then increased pricing. If this is all public space and we can all build these systems because there's no expectation of privacy then all is fair in access to public right of way along roads.

The best part about Muse is they think that the Enterprise is going to start buying things from Meta that looks like it belongs in a preschool. Muse and Ray-Ban surveillance glasses, Zuck must live in one hell of an echo chamber!

This. There's so many better ways to drive a fleet of agents this way than using "remote" features of which I don't trust, anyway.

> You're intentionally trying to muddle the waters here by arguing along two different axis.

You're intentionally making this far more complicated than my original statement along countless axes.

Maybe? That's the smoking gun. Nvidia is a behemoth now with reams of lawyers. Back then? I doubt it. I've seen a lot of startups in the 2020s miss the obvious things in options grants. There was one company that I worked for that didn't use a third party to manage and they provided no language in the acceptance that in the event of a termination event the options had any timetable to be purchased. I asked for the paperwork from them about 6 months later as I was considering selling to a private party and they informed me the time frame had expired. I asked for paperwork I signed that stated that and they had nothing. I sold those options.

In another case I was paid out and my options supposedly terminated when a company I worked for was acquired by Splunk. The startup had used Carta to manage the options and nobody terminated the agreements in Carta and I kept vesting. The joke was I was going to wait to fully vest and then ask them to convert to Splunk stock. Someone eventually noticed and they revoked all agreements in the system. I still wonder how that would have played out legally, but I also wasn't interested in double dipping.

Where's our buddy Garrett Langley or even YC's Garry Tan to come to the defense of the privatized surveillance state?

Pretty much all I ever read about these systems is heinous false positives. I've currently set up automation to pull the local data that includes police activity. One of the towns over from me has, at least, 6 Flock cameras (probably more) for a locale of less than 2000 people. I've not once seen anything related to ALPR or any camera system providing any influence on assisting a crime. You'd think Mr. Langley would be begging police chiefs around the US to put in a positive spin to public information around these digital watchers.

But the morons buying these systems are also the morons taking state tax dollars to buy SWAT vehicles for 100s of thousands of dollars because they want to cosplay GI Joe. Yet... You want a park? Or something that's actually useful in your local community? Fund raise it yourself is the response.