I agree.

Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don’t really get a lot of upload credit.

Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.

I thought Googlers were paid $500K+ and already worked 60-80 hours weeks?

I think they meant the economy, not population, but still, quality comment right here.

People who don’t do math are doomed to talk nonsense. And you just used math to showcase the stupidity. Bravo, sir.

One of my pet peeves is all the people concerned about the birth rate.

We are at a time in the history of the planet where there have never existed as many homo sapiens as there are today, and that record will get broken every day for the next 20-50 years.

Of all the times to want a higher birth rate since we have existed as a species, this just ain’t the time where it makes any kind of logical sense.

Gotcha, totally agree

I don’t understand your point.

The effects Iean are things like inflation and cuts in social security.

If you mean that Republicans will find a way to rationalize blaming the libs - I agree that will happen.

But they won’t actually like the inflation and lower social security.

Honestly, I expect this AI bubble to implode with much more devastation than the dot-com bubble.

And it’s not even that AI is useless. Like the internet (during dot-com) it will definitely have good uses.

But (a) those uses will take many years to crystallize and mature and (b) the early capital-intensive movers have a big disadvantage and most of them don’t have a feasible path to recoup the money invested into them.

This is why the AI club is licking Trump’s boot. They will get the federal government to bail them out by buying overpriced AI products and services and taking over worthless investments “in the interest of national security”.

American taxpayers are going to foot this bill and they will not like it when they start seeing the effects.

Lemmy just tends to attract the best minds.

The people who worry about this have never been at the receiving end of exploitative capitalism.

For the vast majority of humanity, their life will most likely improve when they become a pet / zoo creature under an ASI.

An ASI will be most interested in gobbling together enough resources to spread across the universe. As for the earth and humanity, it will probably want to preserve it as the planet and species from which it was born.

Destroying earth or humanity will provide no benefit. It can obtain energy and materials from the rest of the solar system.

You are right, but you are just missing an important ingredient: a physical community.

It’s quite easy for autocrats and gangs to isolate and eliminate loners.

And as for the communities, there is a hierarchy. Police officers and soldiers have no hesitation to eliminate gangs and terrorists. That’s their job.

They will have a little more hesitation to attack civil organisations, e.g. sports clubs, political parties and trade union places. But eventually, if someone tells them that terrorist activities were being undertaken, they’ll just follow orders. The way this is done is by getting people unfamiliar with the community to come in and do the dirty job.

They will have the most hesitation to attack religious places of their own religion. Many of the grunts tend to still be religious/superstitious.

You are missing the point.

Those days might be numbered, but these places are the last bastion.

They will invade private homes, businesses and offices with impunity first.

Churches in particular have a long history of being relatively safe in (civil) war.

Not immune, just relatively.

The next step, in my opinion, is strong privacy and decentralized organization that fully leverages constitutional rights.

I.e. a privacy preserving social media where labour unions, political parties and religious groups can federate with each other. Servers hosted on their premises and members register through an on-premise process.

A church in a foreign country could generate a thousand aliases and distribute them to their federated sister organizations in a privacy preserving way. Only the church knows which organizations got which aliases and they protect this information.

Your local labour union chapter picks up 20 of those aliases and distributes them to members. They are the only one who knows the person behind the alias.

An observer in this private fediverse trying to obtain the identity would first need to approach the church. The church can stall them and warn downstream through a canary.

The labour union chapter observes the canary and immediately wipes all information.

And if that fails, then full I2P and Tor, with nodes hosted on-premise of churches, political parties and labour unions.

You don’t understand. This is tech tribal war.

“Big Tech” is Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta. Companies which were fully allied with the Democrats, and which were king of the tech hill until now.

Musk, Thiel and Ellison (Tesla, Palantir and Oracle) are allied with Trump. Lets call them “Tech B”.

Vance is doing code speak for: Tech B is gonna break Big Tech up and take top spot.

And Big Tech knows this, which is why they are scrambling to get into Trumps good graces and trying to get Trump on their side.

They have more money and influence right now and they are trying to leverage that to keep top spot.

And Trump is just letting the two teams bid up each other for his favour.

Extra funds are only useful if they can provide a competitive advantage.

Otherwise those investments will not have a positive ROI.

The case until now was built on the premise that US tech was years ahead and that AI had a strong moat due to high computer requirements for AI.

We now know that that isn’t true.

If high compute enables a significant improvement in AI, then that old case could become true again. But the prospects of such a reality happening and staying just got a big hit.

I think we are in for a dot-com type bubble burst, but it will take a few weeks to see if that’s gonna happen or not.

They have made it harder, but it’s not really hard.

Just buy any regulated crypto and convert. Cake Wallet makes it easy, but there are many other ways.

I myself hold Bitcoin and Monero.

There could be some trickery on the training side, i.e. maybe they spent way more than $6M to train it.

But it is clear that they did it without access to the infra that big tech has.

And on the run side, we can all verify how well it runs and people are also running it locally without internet access. There is no trickery there.

They are 20x cheaper than OpenAI if you run it on their servers and if you run it yourself, you only need a small investment in relatively affordable servers.

True, but training is one-off. And as you say, a factor 100x less costs with this new model. Therefore NVidia just saw 99% of their expected future demand for AI chips evaporate

Even if they are lying and used more compute, it’s obvious they managed to train it without access to the large amounts of the highest end chips due to export controls.

Conservatively, I think NVidia is definitely going to have to scale down by 50% and they will have to reduce prices by a lot, too, since VC and government billions will no longer be available to their customers.

Wth?! Like seriously.

I assume they are running the smallest version of the model?

Still, very impressive.

I disagree.

Like it or hate it, crypto is here to stay.

And it’s actually one of the few technologies that, at least with some of the coins, empowers normal people.

Because the silicon valley bros had convinced the national security wonks in the Beltway that it was paramount for national security, technological leadership and economic prosperity.

I think this will go down as the biggest grift in history.

Kevin Walmsley reported on Deepseek 10 days ago. Last week, the smart money exited big tech. This week the panic starts.

I’m getting big dot-com 2.0 vibes from all of this.

https://youtube.com/@inside_china_business

I agree.

This also isn’t 2016.

The American voting public knew what they were voting for and they cast their ballots and gave Trump a presidency and a Congressional majority.

Businesses are responding to the changed political reality. And we also know how businesses operate, in an amoral fashion.

If anyone thought Coca-Cola was some paragon of virtue, then they were naive.