I would be fine if LLMs disappeared tomorrow, but if I couldn't heat my house, I'd freeze to death. But I guess some would argue that everyone needs to live in a city with district heating.
The heating of your house is worth the energy of many thousands of llm queries. So only turning down the thermostat by the smallest of steps would compensate your llm use.
So, no you don't have to freeze to death to easily compensate your llm use.
Has it though? I'd say it's morphed, not changed. This is still, underneath it all, Hanseatic League and East India Company domination style colonialism, but adapted to and shaped by the digital age.
The US has pretty much all throughout its history had its military-industrial complex and warfare as an economic motor too, and in view of this, it's inevitable that software gets integrated.
Israel, the most recent settler-colonial state (of course some people try to claim it's not using various mental gymnastics, but I'm not fooled), was the experiment and has become a model for how to intermingle the industrial-military complex with society to the degree they two become indistinguishable, and with backing of the West it's been a very profitable and, I hate to say it, successful model.
Here's[1] a review of a book about the subject, talking about the state incubating start-ups and spawning a tech sector for the sole purpose of warmongering.
Be careful with this "they are all the same" logic. As an empire, I would rather have the WWII to 2016 USA than the current one and the current one to Russia.
I have also used Tauri for one of my private apps, and using the OS's webview just doesn't work for me, so for my next stuff I'm probably going to use Electron as well since you can embed the webview. Yeah, it's bloated, but I'm so tired of things not working properly on Wayland without disabling this and that with random env vars and not able to do a fully OOTB single portable AppImage build on Linux. I can either make it work in Kubuntu + Arch (building on Ubuntu), or Arch + Fedora (building on Arch), but not all 3.
I tried Uno Platform and AvaloniaUI last year but I had similar problems there with external drag 'n' drop not working on Wayland and the difficulty in writing your own advanced components of which there are oodles to choose from using React/Vue/Solid/Svelte.
I'm not rewriting that other app in Electron, so for Tauri (the development of which largely seems to have stalled?) I'm hoping this[1] will solve my Linux hurdles. Going to try that branch out.
Turns out both companies ran the agreement through their legal departments (Claude and GPT), and one of them did a poor summary. I (think I) jest, but this is probably going to be a thing as more and more companies use LLMs for legal work.
> I can only imagine there some level of employee discontent.
The rank and file mutinied for the return of Altman after his board fired him for deception. They knew what they were getting, though they may find it shameful to admit that their morals have a price.
How many people who reacted that way then are still at OpenAI? It seems that they have lost key people in several waves.
How many people have joined since? I don’t think the people who lobbied for that are all still there, and I’m not sure a majority of people now at OpenAI were there when it happened.
This is one of the reasons Anthropic can stay competitive with OpenAI on a fraction of the budget and with less than half the headcount.
The smartest people, that actually believe they have the skillset to take us to AGI, understand the importance of safety. They have largely joined Anthropic. The talent density at Anthropic is unmatched.
Things have changed since two years ago. There are probably over 500 employees who have an equity package which makes them worth $5 million dollars. Thats only $2.5bn out of a $750bn valuation or 0.33%
Actually that is too conservative. If they have a 5% employee equity pool, there is $37.5bn of equity based compensation divided by say 5000 employees which is $7.5m each. $3.75m @ 10,000 employees.
and trust me, when people start getting liquid and comfortable they stop caring about things like ethics pretty fast. humans are marvellous at that
I don't think that evidence would exist yet whether it's true or not. Nobody's gonna log onto their work computer on Saturday to pull and then leak subscriber numbers.
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