AbsurdCensor

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by AbsurdCensor 9d ago
And that per capita Europe has a bigger unhoused problem than the United States. There aren't simple solutions, because the real solutions would change how society needs to work. Maybe less about money and more about the right to survi
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by AbsurdCensor 10d ago
Do you say the same thing for the shoes you wear, the clothing you wear, the device you are typing on right now? A chain of people were likely not paid well, some of them not at all, to produce those things. We don't ignore that it hap
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by AbsurdCensor 10d ago
If you asked me the same question 20 times, you likely wouldn't get the exact same answer. Humans and consciousness aren't deterministic either.
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by AbsurdCensor 10d ago
Same thing you have to do with humans too often, so why would a 'AI' be any different?
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by AbsurdCensor 10d ago
Not much different than talking to a small child or someone with dementia. They still are conscious beings though. Even when you remove those groups, you likely won't be able to tell me what you had for breakfast 26 days ago or would o
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by AbsurdCensor 10d ago
Wouldn't that be the same for everything though. We know animals have consciousness, but we still use them. There are many that believe a lot of plant life has certain sentience as well. The solution isn't 'just don't us
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by AbsurdCensor 29d ago
For me, with upgraded networking it's been huge. Much faster downloads and uploads, I can share more with family members, and when multiple people are using my bandwidth, no slowdowns. Most of my equipment is 2.5g, but still is a fairl
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Yeah it was wild watching how many contractors came out when Google was rolling their fiber through my neighborhood, like it was different contractor groups for every step of the way. I'm not complaining a 5gbit connection is quite nic
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
I'm incredibly lucky (even in the US) that I have symmetric 5gbit connection and can go up to 8gbit if I wanted (but I don't have everything wired for 10gbit so it doesn't make sense right now). I'd love to see more of t
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
In many states voter lists are publically available online. And those same databases will tell you what party the person voted in for primary elections. The amount of information publicly available about everyone in the US is astounding.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
I really haven't seen any 16gb Mac Mini cluster setups running large models at any appreciable speed for the reasons previously provided. Do you happen to have examples that folks are actually using?
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Yeah, made me suspicious of how well the Ox Alpha was performing that it wasn't some 'new group' making the model.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
That's not quite the case. Effort and focus by amazing groups, governments and individuals are the reasons for improvements, not just that producing more or costs being driven downwards. Innovation with AI is happening as well, but it
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
I think a lot of it is because the majority of improvements are not seen by those who already comparatively have so much. AIDs used to be a death sentence, and now it's a manageable disease, and there is a lot of work going on to vacci
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Absolutely computer driven. It's hard to say the impact of AI, let's give it the same 25 years of computer advancements.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Do you think monthly AI 'subscriptions' are going to be $100 a month in 5 years? These people using these would probably be on $200/month subscriptions and with that OPs assertion of 'shoving away and paying with interes
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
And you still need at least 5% to do what OP is suggesting.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
A Pi isn't a NAS with an old CPU and minimal RAM which is running a bunch of other things as well. I have run Plex on my Synology, and it's fine, but I also have 8gb ram and honestly always have a better experience running Jellyfi
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
I have had an impossible time getting 120B or better models running on Strix Halo (especially under Windows) with any large context windows. And 30-40 tokens/second is fine, but not the fastest. For the most part lately I have been sti
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Aren't you kind of stuck with smaller models on the mini though? Even with the pro you'd be stuck with a max of four daisy chained over thunderbolt and with the 160 gig memory bandwidth you'd probably be far better off with o
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
You don't have enough RAM. Not sure why you wouldn't use a cheap PC to run jellyfin on and then just use your NAS as the media pool.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
As long as everything is using 10gb, faster transfer speeds when moving data between computers. For downloads, it wont help unless you have 10gb fiber, but for most folks, 2.5gb is quite fast. Hell my spinning media NAS has a hard time satu
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
I have had a difficult time with running 120b models on my 128gb setup, especially with any larger context size. The 6bit of Qwen 3.5 is already just over 100gb, and when you go down to 4bit it seems a bit lobotomized.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
For me it's be Strix Halo, 128gb machine, especially running Qwen models. Except when I bought it, it was $1,900, now it's $4,600 for the same box. (Wow that's insane) For tinkering and learning, it's been great. Tie it
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Or just use Privacy.com and use an address in Delaware. Then you can buy it where ever.
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
How are you liking Omarchy? I saw a video on it recently, and it looks 'pretty' but still looks like it's a lot of memorization of shortcuts and feels like the 40% keyboard of OS's. Like some people it's absolutely
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Not 'more simply', there are basically zero savings accounts that are going to net you a 5%+ interest rate to give you that $100 a month. And that $25k becomes less valuable over time. $25k is now only worth $19k because inflation
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Sure, when you look a little wider, since 2000 we have seen the following major improvements: - Extreme poverty has dropped from 30% to under 10% globally. - Child mortality rates have dropped in half - Internet access has exploded from 10
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
Big ole pool of very fast ram that can be accessed by the CPU and GPU. Lets you run larger models. AMD does the same thing with Strix Halo. I have a 128gb machine at home, and have had difficulties running 120b models, but 70b and below run
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by AbsurdCensor 1mo ago
At least in the US it's not even a good method either. Own a house? Boom, your information is publically available and you won't be able to remove it without a court order, which in most states is impossible to get. In most states

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