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I’ve been meaning to build a personal selfhostable version of this. I’ll vibecode it as simple webapp someday and OSS it, should be easy enough.

I see the merit in this project as well but no way in hell i share this data with a third party

You can’t handle the truth

Not on iOS, there Firefox is actually Safari under the hood and you can’t use extensions… Haven’t found a good solution yet (other than avoiding websites with ads)

I use reader mode 90% of the time, I’m really not interested in fancy layout or formatting for a website. I just want the text readable and looking exactly the same way for every website. Designers probably hate users like me.

It’s funny, my experience is the exact opposite.

Having grown up in Germany i was surprised how many people in the US would strike up a conversation randomly in the street with me - I thought it’s a normal thing and never really experienced it in Germany - there I would always be suspicious that people try to scam me or get money or something.

I do agree with GP that in Latin America it’s super common and normal to chat with everyone.

But there are many levels to this - it’s for example less common in Nordic countries at least in my experience but you can speak to people in every place on earth, it’s something universal.

Department of War is just such a fucking joke title - when has the US stooped so low, I used to believe in you guys as the force of good on this planet smh

You can’t really because these powerful models are censored. You can create lewd pictures with open models but they aren’t nearly as good or easy to use.

> Curate the content in your instance

How do i do that without getting PTSD as well? Or is there some magic method that works without me looking at CSAM and gore constantly?

Yea I can’t see how that could backfire in any way

Quantum computing?

See the link above. He’s willing to part with it for 10 million

My point was not that I’m 100% convinced that LLMs can think or are intelligent.

My point was that we don’t have a great definition for (human) intelligence either. The articles you posted also don’t seem to be too confident in what human intelligence actually entails.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence

> There is controversy over how to define intelligence. Scholars describe its constituent abilities in various ways, and differ in the degree to which they conceive of intelligence as quantifiable.

Given that an LLM isn’t even human but essentially an alien entity, who can confidently say they are intelligent or not?

I’m very sceptic of those who are very convinced one or the other way.

Are LLMs intelligent in the way that humans are? I’m quite sure they aren’t.

Are LLMs just stochastic parrots? I don’t find that framing convincing anymore either.

Either way it’s not clear, just check how this topic is discussed daily in most frontpage threads for the last couple of years

Hard power was always stronger. That’s why the US was so successful in the past century - they just have a lot of weapons and little hesitation to use them. It’s a pretty bellicose culture too.

I still think that soft power helped the US tremendously. For all their faults i really had a very positive view on the US, most of it was coloured through soft power. “Inventing” modern democracy, liberating EU from the nazis, Rock’n’Roll, hippie movement, Hollywood, early internet culture - all that overshadowed the imperialism.

Now the mask has come off. And I believe you are right that it ultimately may not matter too much. But then again I doubt the US will be able to style itself again as the “good guys”, the ones who spread democracy to all the oppressed people and and so on without significant effort.

Almost everything coming out of Silicon Valley has an unethical past(present?) if you look at it a bit more closely.

Marketing slogans are just that, words that sound good.

Better look at their actions than take their slogans at face value. Applies to everyone

I showed you all the sources but you prefer to close your eyes.

Of course even the most hardcore AFD racists wouldn’t go on a stand and proclaim that they support remigration, because that would get the party banned and destroy all chances of them getting to power.

I know it’s a tired example online but at least I know a bit about it: do you think the Nazis wrote in their party agenda and proclaimed in their public speeches that the white race is superior and they would start a genocide to exterminate subhumans?

Of course they only revealed their true faces between each other or AFTER they achieved absolute power. Anything else would be ridiculously stupid.

> I do not think that saying things like “my culture is better” is racist

It’s not as racist as the other example you gave but it’s very nationalistic - and from that it’s just a small step to go “if my culture is better, why shouldn’t we rule the world?” - “if my culture is better why should we allow other (worse!) cultures to exist”? If you arrived at that point you almost have to exterminate other cultures - how could you allow something bad to poison and destroy the people? They could be saved by your obviously better culture! You would almost be a monster not “liberating” them!

“Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen” - look it up

> shows support by JD Vance, sure

He is the vice president of the United States - it’s not like he is some random guy whose opinion has no weight

> Show me the source, so I can see myself.

Then just listen to the speeches and proclamations of your heads of state. If you are as antiracist as you claim it should be easy to reveal the agenda they never quite state openly but that is always present between the lines

What I never understood is this binary system in the US - why wouldn’t you allow some other parties or reform the system in a way that allows more diversity.

But it’s of course a hellishly complex problem

The market economy is not about fairness but about ruthless power.

The worlds most influential people demonstrate that only power matters; that the world order we built last century through unimaginable suffering and violence matters less than securing their own personal gain; that law, morals, and order were just dreams of the weak

What are you referring to? The US poisoned themselves or got poisoned by the people they exerted soft power over?

Joe Average knows he is getting fucked over either way

Sorry but you are just riding semantics here - what is the difference between far-right, extreme-right and “fringe”-right?

AfD is classified as extreme-right by German intelligence.

The US vice president gave them an endorsement in public speeches and met with their leaders privately.

The AFD is actively promoting racist, fringe(sic!)-right ideas such as “remigration” (aka trying to get rid of all German citizens that don’t look “german” enough)

The US government is explicitly promoting the racist ideology that parties like the AFD represent.

If that isn’t enough to open your eyes, please explain what level of “evidence” would be enough - but I rather feel like you have made up your mind long before and aren’t really looking for an honest discussion

Only EU site I had a problem accessing that i can remember was from my electricity provider. Strangely enough they didn’t geoblock me but login threw an error because my local time didn’t match the local (German) timezone.

I changed my system timezone to Germany and it worked without issues, so I was wondering if it’s a very bad geoblock or something else entirely

So far the current admin has been very successful in obliterating all the soft power the US built up through the decades.

Just keep moving the goalposts on what evidence actually would be and you can never lose an argument, it’s genius

I don’t know about the rest of Europe but your administration has repeatedly been promoting the AFD in Germany - most prominently your vice president.

The AFD is recognised as a far right party by the German state and is being investigated for anti-democratic activities and goals.

What does “truly thinking or reasoning” even mean for you?

I don’t think we even have a coherent definition of human intelligence, let alone of non-human ones.

Some people are still stuck in the “stochastic parrot” phase and see everything regarding LLMs through that lense.

While I’m on your side electricity was (is?) controlled by oligarchs whose only goal was to become richer. It’s the same type of people that now build AI companies

Let me shed a tear for activision blizzard the poor artists corporation.

One good thing about genai is that it will force us to rethink the mess that is copyright

Without systemic change the impact of individuals wont be meaningful. Maybe on a spiritual level but they won’t contribute meaningfully to the climate change (or non-change)