Kurzesagat has a explanation of the situation. GLP-1 drugs should be the standard, because the alternative is considerably worse. Besides, the behaviors you speak of is highly genetically determined, not a failure of morality or discipline.

The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic (Updated Version)

I got many empty PCI-E slots. Having three or four 3060 clones to accompany my 4090 would make bigger models much more practical.

I figure that mixing is a good idea, and that was the basis of the “Universal Living” economic system that I have been writing up over the years. Universal Basic Income and socialism is great for establishing a foundation that people can rely upon, but it sucks at offering things that make people unique. Capitalism is terrific at making people into unique individuals, but is horrific at ensuring their basic wellbeing.

As such, socialism should be used to ensure everyone has decent necessities and stability, while money should solely be used for luxury things. Everyone gets a house, but you use money for a bigger house. A basic car is free, but a bigger gas guzzler has to be bought. If the basic car is damaged, just trade it in to the government and get a fresh one - the government keeps the old universal car, either repairing it back into service or scrapping it. Healthcare for most things are free, but cosmetic beautification like butt lifts, cost money. Ozempic is free, because less obesity is good across the board. And so on.

IMO, free basic goods and services would also help regulate the pricing of capitalist luxury, because they are competing against free. That makes it harder to rip off society. Also, if everyone has what they need, they aren’t blackmailed into working for bad corporations or breaking themselves to survive. Work, is just to earn money for cool things in life, but isn’t strictly required. People work by choice.

This translates into people pursuing aspects of life that best suit them - be it a specific career, helping their family, participating in the community, or creating arts. This is more optimal than the forced work of capitalism.

We have a rapist, thief, traitor, and war criminal in the oval office. There are many immigrants who have more honor, integrity, and intelligence than Agent “Krasnov” Orange.

Sticking to rules, when the Grand Old Pedophile party uses them selectively, is a fool’s game. We must either elect Mamdani or AOC, preferably both, into top offices.

If the GOP protests? Punch them, and ignore their opinion. Because they don’t give a shit about law nor decency, and should face the consequences of breaching the social contract.

He is trying to be the next FDR with modernized fireside chats, and I am vibing with it.

Someday, we will have automated robots with this sort of self management - and an AI will be explaining how we emulate nature to optimize the behavior of robots.

Electronic moose stand atop hills, so that the radios in their antlers can reach the space eagles in orbit, who observe the earth from on high…

Something like that.

Yet another reason to switch to Linux.

I like AI, but I think that Microsoft’s approach was all wrong for handling it. Instead, they should have made a completely new Windows built from the ground up to be AI-oriented, and kept Windows 1X as mainline.

Once the AI Windows was fully cooked, Microsoft could have either released it as Windows 20, or give it an entirely new name when the time to start pushing it out to the public has arrived. This would give time for suitable hardware to arrive and to sort out teething issues, along with just having a platform that is free of legacy spaghetti code.

These distractions are DANGEROUS. Humans thought this was a good idea, and went ahead without thinking about what it entails.

Executives should be forced to drive home after work, so that they can understand what they are demanding.

Considering that each chaebol owns many industries, that money goes right back into the pockets of Samsung. The chaebols effectively include company stores, with their own versions of KFC, Wendy’s, Krogers, Wal-Mart, 7-11, and so forth.

It is that never-ending greed of the rich, that makes them dissatisfied with merely getting most of the money. I suspect that even if they got everything, the executives would demand the flesh of the workers - because 100% isn’t enough, it must be MORE.

I bet all of them will end up in Trump’s treasury.

All sorts: the Epstein Class, corporations like Blackrock or Blackwater, the Heritage Foundation, cults, corrupt government officials, grifters, and so forth. They might not be physically in our rooms, but their influence colors our everyday life, in ways great and small, often beyond our perception.

Fact of the matter is that there are many forms of power and methods of applying it - AI is no different. Like any tool, it doesn’t care about how it is used or abused. Humans have to decide whether they wield the power of the tool, and to what end.

A shovel can dig gardens and mass graves alike. A good person tries to prevent whatever causes the latter outcome, and encourage the former.

I want both nuclear power and AI to be commonplace.

Where the latter is concerned, it should be decentralized by law: Individual households can own a home server, and in turn, rent or loan their compute to organizations. The reason for this, is to limit the power of corporations and force them to abide by the will of ordinary people, rather than being able to hoard technological power to fuck over the government and citizens. The same applies to robots capable of replacing human labor.

We should not reject AI nor automation, and instead seek to ensure that they can’t be used against the interests of the public good. Mindless rejection, just ensures that bad actors will eventually have sole mastery over these resources.

You do realize that you can use an AI model for many mundane things? Accounting, coding, scheduling, That leaves humans free to do human things like socializing and learning. The reason why Musk and company is so powerful, is because they can use their wealth to delegate tasks away from themselves. Time is a resource, and the wealthy are able to save much of it by not having to do the things that the ordinary person does.

I have 128gb of DDR4 RAM, a 4090, and a 3060. While certainly not weak, my computer is some generations behind. People, real people, can run a model inside their homes. Provided you limit the context and get a midrange quantization, you can run a Qwen3.6 35b on a midrange gaming PC.

Given time, we will someday run DOOM Eternal in our pockets, and be able to talk with the demons.

AI isn’t the problem, it is just an excuse to abuse and gaslight people. If AI didn’t exist, some other card would be played.

Instead of destroying the looms, we should take them over and make our own products. AI can be incredibly useful and might allow cottage industries and smaller communities to become strong enough to contest the powers above us. The big constraints is just the affordability of local hardware and the development of sufficiently powerful models.

Things are moving quickly, especially in the local AI space. Two years ago, fitting a 70b was difficult in my hardware, which had 4k context capacity, could take an hour to output, really sucked at calculating numbers, and was censored. Now a 122b can be uncensored, allow for 256k context, takes less than two minutes to output an lengthy response, and is much smarter.

What I am saying, is that we shouldn’t reject the power of AI. We should use it ourselves, and become the equals of the elite. If we foolishly abandon power, the wealthy will just continue bullying us.

How much you wanna bet that Trump will somehow cause the entire deposit to catch fire?

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