2ndorderthought

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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
"it can almost like write 2 paragraphs!" "It might be conscious" "this is basically AGI, we had to fire someone who spilled the beans"
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Tarrifs wiped out a lot of farmers. Fertilizer shortages absolutely are a result of the Iran war. Population growth can occur if billionaires lobby Republicans and make birth control illegal. Which is happening right now. Last week we were
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
When is the last time you checked the statement you just made for truthfulness? All sources I've seen for years is decreased carbon emissions and stabilized output.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Check in with /r/localllama. There's 100gb vram set ups from complete ewaste to single 8gb GPU inference machines.depends on what you want and can afford
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
You can buy a used GPU for under 400 dollars if you already have a desktop and run qwen 3.6 a3b and for a majority of frontier tasks get by just fine. Why do you need to spend 10k on a laptop, we are swimming in ewaste.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
I think the conclusion is flawed here? Sure qwen3.5 9b is nowhere near the sota models. It's 9b and was made a year ago? Everyone taking about local models is pumped about the models released in April this year. Qwen 3.6 27b and qwen 3
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
So the cofounder of hugging face made a post about qwen 3.6 being atclaude level of performance for the lols? When were you trying local models? The model releases from April 2026 are a serious change in performance.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
The models op is using are from a year ago. The big breakthroughs happened in April this past month
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
The guy is running potato models!
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Try qwen3.6.35 a3b not qwen3.5 9b. It's completely different.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Not in mine. I see a lot of people talking about Gemma on here but in my circles pretty much everyone else is running qwen.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Out of curiosity have you tried other small models? The e2b for me was unusable. Llama3.2 3b was better and that thing is a year old and I rarely use it now too.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
The fun part is, they are making money and have way less to pay off despite 100s of billions in donations than the US companies do.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Time will tell. Depends on small model architecture trends and hardware availability. I wouldn't be surprised if something came slightly out of left field. Considering Taiwan is trapped into producing the same chips for the next 2 year
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
I believe it. The us intentionally lacks accountability to prop up the already wealthy in almost all of its ventures. Which socializes losses and capitalizes gains. It's an economic model that guarantees deterioration and stagnation. D
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
They have already shown that their models match or excel over American ones in different cases. For cheaper too. I disagree on the second point. I think most Americans don't prefer fewer competition, that's a bit antithetical to t
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Wait you mean the open ai nonprofit company that doesn't offer open models and is now for profit isn't a good example of a trustworthy company? What?
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
I disagree. I think deepseek, qwen, and kimi earn a lot of trust open sourcing their models. While still profiting. Effectively they are saying "yea don't crowd our data centers with small queries, go ahead and send your frontier
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Yea I do not recommend treating chromes prompt API as a good example of local LLMs. It's fine and stuff but it's really weak. 8b models from a year ago are better in some ways. And a lot of the recent model drops are meaningfully
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
That and it's lucrative for Android/chrome to have a text summarizer model embedded on your phone probably for government contracts and data exfil but we won't go through there.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Why would you want to try to support all users simple queries on your ai data center if they could run it on their own computer? It builds good will also. it also shows research prowess. For China it's different. They need to show Amer
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
I mean if you read the op and the reply it's pretty funny how poorly thought out the reply is.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Steve bannon figured this out a while back. I was reading about it in the Epstein files in a discussion between the two of them. If they can keep the average person dizzy with bad news they can do more bad things easily. Cute trick
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
China has made huge efforts toward sustainable power. Google it. The us on the other hand is well you know blowing up oil all over the world with military conflicts that are wars but aren't wars but are wars that are over but evolving
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
John Deere is way ahead of ya
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Sometimes I wonder how much it would hurt Amazon to pay the creators and maintainers of OSS software they sell 1 cent per billing period of use(1 hr?). I also wonder how much money that would offer an oss team. To contribute risk free to im
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
There isn't though. Our infrastructure cannot sustain the AI race. Food supplies are weakening. An ever increasing population is being encouraged by billionaires. There could be! But there currently is not. Nor is there any plan for th
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
Good luck farming. Even the people with the newest farming technology and multigenerational experience in their land are going bankrupt.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
I would encourage you to re read the post you replied too and your own. Maybe 2 times. Both a little slowly.
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by 2ndorderthought 5mo ago
I don't have anger against AI. I am a disgusted by the companies rolling it out. UBI also won't fix things. A post ai world that the us tech ceos want us to imagine is not a utopia. The us manufacturers almost nothing on the world

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