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It’s the V-chip and Clipper chip madness all over again. While they are at it can they start requiring the rich, famous, and powerful to get age verification before interacting with people to prevent another Epstein?

Couple of observations:

Companies use to hoard talent. Now they are hoarding compute, RAM, and GPUs.

Deepseek showed that there are possibly less expensive ways to train, meaning the future eye watering expenses may not happen.

Bigger models may not scale. The future may be federations of smaller expert models. Chat GPTX doesn’t need to know everything about mental health, it just needs to recognize the the Sigmund von Shrink mental health model needs to answer some of my questions.


Echoing the other comment they showed another big thing which is that the output if an AI model is the AI model. If you mass prompt scrape their AI you can recreate it almost exactly.

Very dangerous if you think about it that the product itself is the raw building block for itself.

Openai spends 1B$ on their model, releases it and instantly it gets scrapped by a million bots to build some country or company their own model.


Deepseek showed that distillation is possible. Their results are possible without someone else doing the leading edge training

Weather Underground had a very reasonable feed that you could subscribe to back in 2000. I use d then for a cluster of farming websites I built then.

Who’s buying $6.00 burgers when the old customers have been replaced by AI?


It would make more sense to develop power beaming technology. Use the knowledge from Starlink constellations to beam solar power via microwaves onto the rooftops of data centers


Hello SimCity 2000 Microwave Power Plant.


Looking forward to an CNN breaking chyron titled "Oops!"


Why? We have solar panels and fossil fuels at home.


Why does that make sense at all


> Why does that make sense at all

Parent said it would make more sense.

I guess in terms of the relative level of stupidity on display, it would be slightly less stupid to build huge reflectors in space than it is to try to build space datacenters, where the electricity can only power specific pieces of equipment that are virtually impossible to maintain (and are typically obsolete within a few years).


Everybody wants a death ray.


Does the UK ban shows like Forged in Fire that teach you how to make all sorts of specific blades?


No, and the blades created because of the methods used, would likely not be covered by the legislation anyway, theres a carve out for antiques and weapons made using traditional methods (now define traditional methods, because the law doesn't, but hammer and anvil would seem to be the most obvious traditional approach).

However, in practice the police continually take and often destroy legally owned antiques claiming they are zombie swords.

The law is written in such a way the police can take anything and you have to prove to a judge they aren't illegal.

One very large example of such police practices: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RPm4Pts23Qg


I had friends who would scour the produce isle to find potatoes they could cut down to fit their potato gun with a rifled barrel.


Or as we learned on Star Trek, some rope, bamboo, charcoal, rocks, sulfur and Gorn dung will make a one time weapon.


ATF is not allowed to digitize any of its records around gun sales or transfer of ownership.


That's not true. They have millions of digitized 4473s. They are banned by law from creating a searchable registry of gun owners but they digitize paperwork on a daily basis.

https://medium.com/statute-circuit/the-atfs-quiet-digital-tr...


Thanks for the clarification. I knew there was limitation placed on them to hamstring their operations under the auspices of preserving the 2nd amendment.


Aluminized Mylar streamers is what was used to take down the grid in Balkans back in the 90’s


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