vitalyan8184

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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
>To everyone here pushing for total proliferation of ... ...general-purpose computers ...unbreakable encryption ...unbackdoored communication ...unkillswitched vehicles ...unsurveiled dwellings >what should be done about ...? nothing
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
nvidia and amd don't give a flying fuck about end users right now while they can milk triple digit markups from infinite money VCs via data center GPUs.
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
they have some consciousness, but again, not as much as a human. and again, most of humans lived in similarly abhorrent conditions throughout most of the history.
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
again, you're ascribing human level of consciousness to much simpler creatures driven primarily by instinct. and you are aware that even humans, with our much longer lifespan and much higher cognition, can endure living in captivity fo
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
in civilized countries, industrially farmed animals live short, uneventful lives devoid of hunger and pain, injury and disease, heat and cold, then die instant, painless deaths. in the wild, the kind of animals we farm rarely get to die of
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
is it? from where I stand, hn seems to be one of the exceptionally few remaining places where the mods don't take sides so the obnoxious minority doesn't get to win arguments by silencing everyone else like they do everywhere else
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
oh, I've no doubt the US government and giga corporations can get zero data retention without ten pages of fine print. the rest of us can't.
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by vitalyan8184 2mo ago
with open weight models, you have three other options A) use a provider that pinky-swears not to store your data. they obviously don't give a fuck about 'distillation attacks', so they have little motivation to voluntarily mo