Haven’t they clearly documented how they did it and what they used so that anyone can replicate it? Anyone with the compute power, which of course few have. But universities could do it.

So how is it not open source in this specific domain of problems? What would a LLM model need to do to be open source then? Duplicate the whole training dataset in a big zipfile for you to download?

From what I understand you could even replicate deepseek by replacing the “cold start” with latest deepseek instead.

I suspect Musk did it first and now that guy wants in on the scam too

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Ok ok fine, sorry, you have some rare second hand though anecdotal evidence.

But I simply do not want to hear how bad Iran is and this both sideism and lets talk every monday about how the regime in Iran is a dictatorship (wrong) and so on. Because we know where it leads. Sanctions, agitation, and now war.

With both-sides-bad you’re STILL attacking Iran while they are defending against the USA. You’re helping the imperialists. That is the effect of stories like OP.

Iran is a country that has been under siege, under economic attack by the USA and everyone the USA controls. When the USA does sanctions, they threaten sanctions against anyone who breaks their unilateral sanctions. And still they are not just hanging on but managed to fight back the unprovoked and illegal US and Israel attacks.

And again, they MUST go hardline on protesters. What other choice do they have? Surrender to the USA? Killing a few hundred protesters is unfortunately preferable if that prevents a regime change. Do you think they like it? I’m sure they don’t. But they feel they must, to keep in power, which is absolutely their duty. They are at war, and the sanctions are explicitly meant to create unrest.

I wish the Iranian people more freedom and peace. Personally not a fan of Islam. I wish I could see how they would do without being under attack by the largest superpower in the world.

“The Iranian regime is horrible” but how do we know this? You say this as if it’s a fact. As if you believe every mainstream article you read since you were a kid. As if you’ve allowed yourself to be shown only the most extreme anecdotes.

But worst is that you talk as if it’s your business. It’s not. It’s the Iranian people’s business.

The more you support anti-Iranian propaganda, the more hardline Iran has to become. The US and CIA couped Iran once, now tried a second time very openly, but they are constantly supporting “non-profit pro-democracy organizations” which are just there to destabilize. THIS you don’t seem to understand. It’s like a bully constantly punching someone weaker and when they fight back by cracking down on spies and foreign funded organizations meant to destabilize their nation, you come and say “Oh how horrible! They poor people only wanted freedum! I can be your white savior and explain democracy to you!”

Ok ok, I went way overboard there lol, sorry. Nothing against you. But this is the general mechanism. Destabilize with color revolutions, paint a picture in imperial media, then condemn when the “shithole country” defends itself.

Don’t forget, there has never been any evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon even CIA admitted that. And yet still the iranian people have faced crippling sanctions which ultimately destroyed the middle class which is important to build a more robust democracy. US Empire doesn’t like democracy, definitely not in countries which natural resources it wants to steal.

So frankly no, two things aren’t true at the same time. One is much truer than the other. One is what you and your empire or alliance does. The other thing is what you heard about a foreign, far away country which resources we want to steal from their population. Leave Britney alone!

The solution is for every shit post or comment we need to make 10. Every advertising you see, you need to create an anti ad. You need to multiple their effort in the reverse. It costs them money. It costs us just time and effort.

I’m curious if one could do the math on this, if it can work. Like a cost analysis. I’m pretty sure it’s not, like impossible by an order of magnitude.

They have billions of dollars to spend and can dominate and push speech at a much cheaper price. It costs them peanuts to buy votes or sockpuppets or bots. Or they own the algorithm. Meanwhile we have to work to survive and have limited time and energy. I think one of the biggest misconception is that ideas win, but reality is that we have an army of millions on one side and an army of thousands on the other, and there is no doubt who will win.

And worse yet, much of this isn’t even deliberate, it’s a side effect of tuning algorithms to maximize engagement. The more you yell the more they yell their more the engagement numbers go up and they win. Polarization and divisiveness is good business.

No clue if this is true or if this can even be researched, you’d probably need data from the social media providers. The only winning move I see would be to nationalize all social media and turn them into non-profit cooperatives that are controlled by their own workers.

I’d expect they’ll try to turn this into a “Stab-in-the-back myth” like the Nazi’s with WWI. Trump will say they would have won bigly against Iran but now it’s all the fault of the socialists for betraying Emperor Trump!

And local and under your control. As a “second brain” that isn’t sentient but intelligent to assist you AI has great potential. In a few years we’ll probably have the models and new hardware to run good enough models locally on cheap enough hardware.

But by then they’ll have drummed enough support for “muh copyright” to buy legislation for AI licensing and make all AI models have to pay a license fee to… “someone”. Like that poor writer who had his work illegally read by an AI. So then no open source models can exist and they have the monopoly. Big win for the little guy lol.

At least China is pushing to expand production capacity.

It’s kind of like survivorship bias: The ones who rise to the very top must be the most ruthless and biggest pieces of shit. It’s like taking 20 trials to rise to the top, and to succeed each trial fucking others over and only concerning yourself with your advancement is beneficial. It only leaves the worst.

There is a good article about how it happened: The Man Who Killed Google Search by Ed Zitron

Right! That exists, at $3 per laser shot.

Yeah definitely scary - once you can mass produce drones or combat robots in the millions they become weapons of mass destruction.

I still imagine robots shooting normal caliber guns far better than soldiers can would be a game changer. There was this article about Iran simply producing massively cheaper and that is why they won the war, and overwhelm the expensive toys and defenses of the US. Just state owned weapon manufacturing with long term stability in planning. So if you can take down a drone with 100 bullets it’s going to be cheaper than 1 expensive interceptor drone.

Ultimately we need certain internet infrastructure as free public utilities. Like a search engine backend.

The Israel regime is deliberately fostering hate against Jews to bolster their domestic power. They are literally antisemites. It’s what fascists crave.

Are autonomous guns that are moved via servos and aimed via AI cameras a thing yet? I imagine simply trailers with 10-20 rifles that just blast any and all drones with mostly standard munitions. Projectiles should be much faster so it should be possible to shoot any drone down at close enough range, and it should be much cheaper so eventually you should be able to just defend against drone swarms with enough auto turrets.

I imagine we’re still far from the technological peak of drone warfare.