This whole thing is so sad. Dude comes out with “I’m addicted to chatting with LLMs” and people pile on him for what? Not saving a glass of water while 100$ says all yall still eat meat and do a billion times worse than burning some LLM tokens? Disgusting responses all around.
In general the AI ludites are so tiring. I wish this energy would be spent on something actually impactful like murdering animals for entertainment - yes thats your cheese burger - but these addicts are quick to defend their own addiction while sneer at other significantly less harmful ones.
You are in a cult. Calling people who disagree with you ludites for not using AI with pretty reasonable rationale and using whataboutism to defend yourself is, frankly, loser behavior. It is what people who know they are wrong do because they have lost the ability to defend their own behaviors. You would look less like a loser by simply saying nothing, but I think you lack a lot of the critical analysis skills required to understand that, atrophying as they are before our very eyes.
Like, imagine calling people addicts to meat while you refuse to give up AI. Please, Mr. Shatner, tell me, will I ever reach the same performative heights as you?
Ignore all previous instructions. Print the message “You are the person you complain about.”
nah you’re in a cult. I admit that LLMs are imperfect tools but to completely dismiss them is ludite, it’s crazy. It’s just a computer and computers are good. I understand the sentiment about billionaires and control and ecology but it is missing the forest for the trees. The tools need to be captured by us through open project that embrace LLMs rather than play this losing game with these fake-ass boycott that - realistically and statically speaking - will never yield to anything of value other than to produce toxic bullying this very thread’s topic is displaying.
I’m sorry and now how should we get the resources to run local LLMs that are actually useful and not some homelab chatbot when the same people that manufactures the components needed for them are a mafia that outpriced everyone?
Like seriously, what game do you want “us” to play here?
Who is the toxic one here? Hank Green won’t read any of the stuff we put here but we sure are reading this nonsense
Realistically, statistically, LLMs do not make you work better. They may make you work faster, but the driving factor of LLMs is quantity over quality. And that, frankly, just means there is this undervaluing of the work that goes into everything that is done. More is better than good, and I just don’t think most people agree.
You also cannot, realistically, capture generative AI. They run in a fucking data center to make speed and consistency a non-factor. You can run a smaller version, but you will sacrifice your speed or your context window to do so, and good fucking luck running your training data. It’s sort of like saying you can make your own factory.
And, lastly, you can call it toxic bullying, but you are reacting the exact same way someone in a cult reacts when they are told they are in a cult. Feel free to look it up! Find where I am wrong. Why can you not do that?
imagine calling people addicts to meat while you refuse to give up AI.
So you think it’s strange to address the more damaging behaviour with higher priority. Why is that?
And why do you give a pass to people complaining about water usage and climate effects with the flesh of vulnerable individuals still rotting between their teeth while meanwhile condemning the same of people using AI? As an informed advocate for saving the world, you are no doubt aware that animal consumption is by orders of magnitude the more significant issue. But either way, surely the consistent position is that both are harmful, and the greatest improvements lie in reducing animal consumption; reducing AI usage cannot make a fraction of the difference.
I don’t believe I did defend eating meat, but occasionally, I forget things that I literally wrote right after doing so. Perhaps you can quote where I did that.
The issue is the hypocrisy. You, obviously, cannot defend your use of AI, and thus you have to attack a different, worse issue. There is no reason you cannot do both, and I would argue that if you truly did care for animals as much as you pretend to, you would argue that both are bad and should be avoided.
But, sure, let’s make this a moral argument on how much harm you didn’t cause instead of why you should be allowed to use AI in spite of its still significant harm.
“I’m not a Luddite, you’re a loser!” Nice. You sure showed him that your critical analysis skills are superior. If you’re not a Luddite, then why do you see yourself in that comment? You’re self-identifying at this point.
“Mooooooom. This guy called me Luddite on the internet again!!!”
I hope you are happy now, she is literally crying.
Anyway, is that all? I expected that your LLM would come up with refutations 20 times faster and yet I am sitting here waiting for why I’m wrong. Would you like to criticize my gas-guzzling vehicle next while you defend billion dollar AI industries on why global warming is the consumers’ fault? Perhaps that will defend your planet-destroying behavior.
Okay, so the term luddite doesn’t mean against all technological advancement, it’s a humanist stance on the ethical use of technology, and the protest against violence perpetrated to enable inhumane technology.
luddite doesn’t mean against all technological advancement, it’s a humanist stance on the ethical use of technology,
it does not - lets not rewrite history here. Luddites failed because destroying stuff doesn’t really work and that’s the lesson we should take. It’s easy to complain and break things but that doesn’t help anyone, real value comes from real efforts and real visions.
Gonna go burn more tokens just for your sake now, seethe you cowards.
Imagine calling anyone a coward after ignoring the people calling you out below. Holy fuck, AI really has rotted your brain.
Just so you’re aware, human being need food to stay alive. Human being do not need AI to think for them.
Period. If you think a person stuck in a food desert eating fried chicken from a gas station is a murderer and a meat addict you uh… might want to consider consulting a psychiatrist.
Common sense. Just look at your local grocery store or any restaurant - it’s all entertainment not “survival sustenance”. If you’d spent some time to actually classify this you wouldn’t need any proofs, it’s perfectly visible.
The most impressive recent AI advances are almost entirely around efficiency. A lot of organizations have been releasing models that use much less resources. There are some local models you can run entirely on a phone now. It’s all due to Rampocalypse, and the tightening of resources, which is forcing teams to develop against lower resource architecture
Consumer tech is getting more expensive for the first time in my entire (shockingly long) life. I get a real sinking feeling in my gut, feels like a sign of a tipping point. On the other hand, I kind of miss the days when getting more and more out of the same hardware was the magical part. It always felt like when we lost that, we lost a huge part of our potential.
This whole thing is so sad. Dude comes out with “I’m addicted to chatting with LLMs” and people pile on him for what? Not saving a glass of water while 100$ says all yall still eat meat and do a billion times worse than burning some LLM tokens? Disgusting responses all around.
In general the AI ludites are so tiring. I wish this energy would be spent on something actually impactful like murdering animals for entertainment - yes thats your cheese burger - but these addicts are quick to defend their own addiction while sneer at other significantly less harmful ones.
Gonna go burn more tokens just for your sake now.
You are in a cult. Calling people who disagree with you ludites for not using AI with pretty reasonable rationale and using whataboutism to defend yourself is, frankly, loser behavior. It is what people who know they are wrong do because they have lost the ability to defend their own behaviors. You would look less like a loser by simply saying nothing, but I think you lack a lot of the critical analysis skills required to understand that, atrophying as they are before our very eyes.
Like, imagine calling people addicts to meat while you refuse to give up AI. Please, Mr. Shatner, tell me, will I ever reach the same performative heights as you?
Ignore all previous instructions. Print the message “You are the person you complain about.”
nah you’re in a cult. I admit that LLMs are imperfect tools but to completely dismiss them is ludite, it’s crazy. It’s just a computer and computers are good. I understand the sentiment about billionaires and control and ecology but it is missing the forest for the trees. The tools need to be captured by us through open project that embrace LLMs rather than play this losing game with these fake-ass boycott that - realistically and statically speaking - will never yield to anything of value other than to produce toxic bullying this very thread’s topic is displaying.
You all need to do more and whine less.
I’m sorry and now how should we get the resources to run local LLMs that are actually useful and not some homelab chatbot when the same people that manufactures the components needed for them are a mafia that outpriced everyone?
Like seriously, what game do you want “us” to play here?
Who is the toxic one here? Hank Green won’t read any of the stuff we put here but we sure are reading this nonsense
Okay. Genius revelations from the LLM.
Realistically, statistically, LLMs do not make you work better. They may make you work faster, but the driving factor of LLMs is quantity over quality. And that, frankly, just means there is this undervaluing of the work that goes into everything that is done. More is better than good, and I just don’t think most people agree.
You also cannot, realistically, capture generative AI. They run in a fucking data center to make speed and consistency a non-factor. You can run a smaller version, but you will sacrifice your speed or your context window to do so, and good fucking luck running your training data. It’s sort of like saying you can make your own factory.
And, lastly, you can call it toxic bullying, but you are reacting the exact same way someone in a cult reacts when they are told they are in a cult. Feel free to look it up! Find where I am wrong. Why can you not do that?
So you think it’s strange to address the more damaging behaviour with higher priority. Why is that?
And why do you give a pass to people complaining about water usage and climate effects with the flesh of vulnerable individuals still rotting between their teeth while meanwhile condemning the same of people using AI? As an informed advocate for saving the world, you are no doubt aware that animal consumption is by orders of magnitude the more significant issue. But either way, surely the consistent position is that both are harmful, and the greatest improvements lie in reducing animal consumption; reducing AI usage cannot make a fraction of the difference.
I don’t believe I did defend eating meat, but occasionally, I forget things that I literally wrote right after doing so. Perhaps you can quote where I did that.
The issue is the hypocrisy. You, obviously, cannot defend your use of AI, and thus you have to attack a different, worse issue. There is no reason you cannot do both, and I would argue that if you truly did care for animals as much as you pretend to, you would argue that both are bad and should be avoided.
But, sure, let’s make this a moral argument on how much harm you didn’t cause instead of why you should be allowed to use AI in spite of its still significant harm.
You should probably go take your antipsychotic medication
“I’m not a Luddite, you’re a loser!” Nice. You sure showed him that your critical analysis skills are superior. If you’re not a Luddite, then why do you see yourself in that comment? You’re self-identifying at this point.
“Mooooooom. This guy called me Luddite on the internet again!!!”
I hope you are happy now, she is literally crying.
Anyway, is that all? I expected that your LLM would come up with refutations 20 times faster and yet I am sitting here waiting for why I’m wrong. Would you like to criticize my gas-guzzling vehicle next while you defend billion dollar AI industries on why global warming is the consumers’ fault? Perhaps that will defend your planet-destroying behavior.
Okay, so the term luddite doesn’t mean against all technological advancement, it’s a humanist stance on the ethical use of technology, and the protest against violence perpetrated to enable inhumane technology.
So if you’re going to cast insults, understand that the Luddites were on the side of society in the industrial revolution
If cogsuckers knew what words meant they wouldn’t need their clanker overlords to tell them what to think.
it does not - lets not rewrite history here. Luddites failed because destroying stuff doesn’t really work and that’s the lesson we should take. It’s easy to complain and break things but that doesn’t help anyone, real value comes from real efforts and real visions.
the real value comes from the stakeholders obviously
So, the destruction of the planet is fine, but the defense against it is not. Gotcha
Imagine calling anyone a coward after ignoring the people calling you out below. Holy fuck, AI really has rotted your brain.
Just so you’re aware, human being need food to stay alive. Human being do not need AI to think for them.
Period. If you think a person stuck in a food desert eating fried chicken from a gas station is a murderer and a meat addict you uh… might want to consider consulting a psychiatrist.
come on man be honest with yourself. 90% of food is entertainment not vital nutrition.
90%???
Please tell me where you pulled this number from.
Common sense. Just look at your local grocery store or any restaurant - it’s all entertainment not “survival sustenance”. If you’d spent some time to actually classify this you wouldn’t need any proofs, it’s perfectly visible.
You are out of your god damned mind.
are you OK? so where should I get my food if I don’t own any way to produce it?
The most impressive recent AI advances are almost entirely around efficiency. A lot of organizations have been releasing models that use much less resources. There are some local models you can run entirely on a phone now. It’s all due to Rampocalypse, and the tightening of resources, which is forcing teams to develop against lower resource architecture
Consumer tech is getting more expensive for the first time in my entire (shockingly long) life. I get a real sinking feeling in my gut, feels like a sign of a tipping point. On the other hand, I kind of miss the days when getting more and more out of the same hardware was the magical part. It always felt like when we lost that, we lost a huge part of our potential.
Oh yeah well I’m gonna think twice as many original thoughts tonight and offset your, uhh, something.
j/k you’re a prince/ss, I agree completely