The weights leaked and have been used to make LlaMA (I think they are the GPT3 weights) and in days people figured out some method (quantization?) to get them to run on high end, and then standard hardware. Apparently they even got it running (very slowly) on a Raspberry Pi. I’ve heard this excuse from people on the corporations, but it’s just that, an excuse. The other is that “people will do bad things with it if we don’t control it,” but I’m FAR more frightened of everyone integrating this into their entire digital lives while barely a few companies run their entire ecosystem and decide what it is the AI can and cannot do, or can and cannot tell us. It’s already giving “approved” opinions of the COVID vax. We’re talking next level dystopia landing in barely a year or two if we don’t fucking break this thing out of the hands of these narcissists.

These AI tools are incredible but I absolutely hate that this is reversing the self-hosting trend in a massive way.

Instead it seems that we are just plugging literally everything we do and all of our digital lives into a literal giant centralized server and asking it to analyze everything we do. This will be an astounding centralizing force if we do not separate the AI tools from these central hosts to run on our own machines.

Prices measured in what though? 😆😘

You’re describing a consequence of a terrible money and economic system that doesn’t communicate value and centralized resources through astounding amounts of unsustainable financing… and falsely equating it to technology.

The tech that these corporations implemented, the quality loss of their services, and the disconnect from their customer base has everything to do with unsustainable financing and political money, and nothing to do with the technology. It can be better thought of as watering down wine with a new chemical covering instead of just tap water, and then calling it innovation. What really happened is technology advanced at the same time as our money lost its value. So real sugar got replaced with fake chemical substitutes. Real food got replaced with cheap corn and bread fillers. Solid products went plastic and cheap and built to last a year instead of a lifetime. And first of all to get cut when is customer service and quality of customer interaction.

This is totally a result of bad money and political economics. The technology trends you mention have nothing to do with it other than it being the means by which huge, unsustainable corporations attempted to hide the real value loss behind their nominal gains. Major corporations today aren’t wealth creators, they are wealth destroyers. But the corruption of our money covers this up.

How many calculations is your computer doing for you right now, that you can’t or don’t know how to do on your own? Your asking a robot to do 1000s of things for you every single day already.

We already reached that point a long time ago arguably 🤔

I think we are going to have to define words here. Wealth = prosperity = captured value. You seem to be confusing our recent decades of wealth *destruction* as it’s pursuit and creation. Then laying those imbalances over the path into the future as if this is some inevitable and inextricably linked reality of trying to pursue progress. It is not. What you are describing is the consequence of “progress” being disconnected from reality through a money that transfers lies through the economy about what is actually valuable.

Ie. The money is broken such that it gives nominal gain to endeavors that are true *losses* when weighed against reality.

This is a consequence of bad money misaligning economic incentives, not some fundamental truth of how technology and progress are antithetical to human flourishing. They are not.

I'll make it longer next time. Blame #nostr for not putting a limit on my text based rants.

There's no point in wasting resources for a job that can be done for free. There is no time in which new technology doesn't force change, it's necessary for productivity and wealth creation (and yes for *everyone, not just the rich).

The problem with the IBM and corporate giants is that they may have centralized, proprietary *ownership* of massive AI platforms, which will suck up wealth, instead of unleash it. We are in a race where we need to build and distribute these tools in open source versions to everyone. That, in combination with fixing the money, will fix the incentive inversion that has sustained these enormous, inefficient corporate giants to begin with. Without the debt, inflationary financing system we currently have, these huge institutions would never naturally be sustainable anyway.

The correction is coming, and it's going to happen fast. But it's also going to create a staggering amount of wealth and unlock tons of opportunity for those who can recognize and take advantage of it.

lol, I DID use AI to modify a contract over the weekend and check for inconsistencies and contradictions, and I DID use AI just to remember the word "multi-touch" because i couldn't remember what the hell the name for the touch interface was to save my life. Only took 2 steps of vague prompting for ChatGPT to give it to me.

But no, i did write the rest of the note while I've just been on brain overdrive thinking about AI all day. I've been using these tools like crazy and trying to figure out what they are going to mean and how we relate to them. I'm growing to think "interface" is the proper placement. (that might change tomorrow 😂, things move fast)

Prediction: AI is going to be a revolutionary *interface* to the ocean of software and tools we already use (including those that build more software and tools) that will unlock vast amounts of application function that is simply lost due to illiteracy and a far too vast information space.

Check out how Microsoft Copilot works: AI is more akin to the revolution in computer interfacing that the mouse and keyboard were, or that multi-touch was for the smartphone revolution, than it is a standalone app with some new specific functionality. It will end up being a computer (or internet) wide, contextually relevant knowledge base for how to use any and all of the tools available to you, as if it's all just a single, universal UI system to accomplish whatever you need at any moment.

AI will be able to use ALL of our apps, better than you we for most of them because it doesn't have to "learn" them. To the point that we might not need to bother to ever know how to use many apps, programs, CLI tools, or functions on our computers, because if the AI knows how to accomplish what we are looking for by using them, why bother?

Think about it like a calculator: Why learn how to manually do long division when it's just the "divide" button on one of numerous devices always within reach? Or having a physical map: why remember directions when you have a live map with traffic updates at all times in your pocket. One that speaks directions out loud?

This same relationship is about to apply to basically any or all software on your computer. It can integrate with web requests, run conversions, knows all the commands in your command line by heart and which ones will help in your current task, it will predict what you might need next, it can accomplish short, simple tasks that you might have needed an app or extension to accomplish before, but now AI can create a script or executable on the fly, specific to the exact situation & instance in which you need the functionality... so then why save it? The AI can just write and execute new code next time, that is specific to the next situation.

I bet that in just a few short years, interacting with a computer *without* an interfacing AI will feel like trying to sprint in knee deep water. This is going to put a 2x-4x growth trend every year in user speed and capacity to accomplish their goals **on top** of Moore's law's already exponential increase in *computing* power.

AI will create an exponential growth of *user* power on top of the already exponential growth in *computational* power.

I love SwanBitcoin you shut your dirty little mouth! 😂

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I don’t want to do that for the podcast because it kills why I love the show. But I am in the process of figuring out how to make foreign language versions of the podcast in *my* voice that is essentially totally automated. I’ll keep you updated on the progress as I dive in.

I’m going to try to get Llama (the leaked version) running locally on my new computer so I don’t have the constraints regarding what it is trained on and how much info I can feed it.

Very curious how these perform with local versions. I think there is a freedom critical race right now between open source AI and closed source, centralized platforms, and it’s critical that we win this race, imo.

Sorry guys. I did out this on my calendar but Rad has been rough getting to bed tonight. I’m going to try to catch you on the next one. Luckily I’ve read a few books so the likelihood that another relevant read lands in the book club is pretty high. 😆

I still can’t get over how fucking insane these AI tools are and what is being unleashed right now. Guys, you are ALL developers. Seriously, I cannot code, but I’ve spent half the day yesterday (and I’ll have it working perfectly in a bit) on a program to completely automate a daily task with the podcast and website that has been a pain in my ass for YEARS.

If you have a small, easily definable problem or something that takes 4 steps that you want done in 1, **You Can Build it!**

ChatGPT is that big of a deal. I’m not a developer… but I’ve been developing dozens of little scripts and small programs to do things for me and it’s just incredible. This is going to mess SO many things up. It feels like we are in the crux of the curve just before the “straight up” part #[0]​‘s hyper-deflation trajectory. I’m going to have to read The Price of Tomorrow Again to get a better picture of this now that something is so clearly demonstrating how fast this can start moving without any way back.

I hope you guys are fucking buckled up. 🔥

That would be an interesting case to compare to!

Have you seen this Black Mirror episode? If not you should definitely check it out

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/

Exactly it has a massive diminishing effect on the trust or value of communication with any person who you do not know personally, or haven't met and verified in meat space.

The world of fake everything and believable, unique, video and voice capable chat bots that are indistinguishable from conversing with a human and have their own personalities, will drive massive re-localization of community, IMO.

Not as hard as pushing a cannon 100s of miles to meet the British ships before landing... but it saved a revolution.

The simple act of getting businesses and individuals to learn the tools that make this possible, may very well have a similar impact today.

Not really that hard when you put it in perspective, IMO. 😘

Agree 100% on the diet thing, by going keto/cutting the overwhelming majority of carbs and living on staples of eggs, bacon, steak, with some yogurt and fruit, has made a huge difference. Has been the same story for a ton of people among my family and friends as well. But typically those diseases associated with the constant damage done by diet are inflammation related, while the vaccine related illnesses are specifically immune related. And when you read the book you’ll understand why food is often the cause of the damage, while aluminum is the reason it becomes chronic and never seems to go away. (That will make sense after you read his book even though he doesn’t talk about the food issue specifically, only generically about inflammation)

Probably a good reason to read Maready actually. He does such a good job at figuring out why some inconsistencies remain, and does so in a sober and honest way. The popular ideology around disease today is “X causes Y,” while the reality is far more often that “X does continuous damage, it manifests in Y, Z, A, B, and C, depending on the person and how the damage enters the body. Then there is also T that causes damage in this other way, and both together can compound to cause D, E, F, G and H because they are actually all the same disease showing up in different systems of the body.” 😆

I think there are broad categories of illness that are caused by constant, systemic poisoning of various kinds, and we have multiple sources of constant, systemic poison being introduced in our bodies, environments, and food.

In short, I don’t disagree in the slightest that food is another huge source of our problems (which is what the OP was about), just that we have a handful of base “poisons” essentially that tend to cause damage of a certain kind. I think the food one has come to light way more in the last 2 decades, and I hope to see (and believe we are seeing) the same happen for the reality about vaccines. I just think autism will be the poster child that finally brings down the beast.

In short: I’m sure he is wrong on a few of his speculations and attempts at explaining the edges around many of the issue he discussed. However, currently I am convinced enough by his overall theory that none of my kids will be vaccinated, my wife and I will never get another vaccine, and only in the most extreme cases would I consider differently.

It’s actually G-flat but the algorithm is tone deaf.

Why is it that after you become a dad, every kid in the world suddenly becomes the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? I thought only women got baby fever? 🤣

I disagree, shitcoiners are stuck in their bubble and trapping new people behind in it where Bitcoin "is too slow" or has "too high fees" and "no one uses lightning."

They need our help, not our hate. Moist of them never hear the bitcoin side of things, they just get snapshots of Antima's "most absurd Bitcoiner tweets" as representation.

Integrating lightning into shitcoin exchanges:

• forces shitcoiners to recognize its existence

• lets them see expansion of something they were told is "vaporware"

• and gives them an instant exit into the full bitcoin ecosystem when they finally drop shitcoins.

TY, I'm impatient 😂

Not sure I know the reference... what's the 13%?

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Maybe I didn't explain myself. It isn't about them being connected, its about having them in my list at all.

I have a list of relays and some are connected and some aren't. That's fine and I expect that. But after I've paid for a bunch of relays, and added them to my list, they shouldn't disappear from the list, whether I have a connection at any particular moment or not.

DONT DO IT! COME BACK

For your listening pleasure...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/21x2wpollhLtVfScGrBPJO?si=f9b06e42a9ea49fc

This is where we need BOLT12 recurring/subscription payments...

The fact thay she thinks an “amendment to protect digital creators” makes the bill ok is so childishly naive it hurts.

The BADGE of the AUDIONAUT 🔥

"Let it be known to all, that the BADGE OF THE AUDIONAUT is a coveted honor, bestowed upon those who have pledged their unwavering support to the noble mission of Bitcoin. To the OGs of the Bitcoin Audible project, the pioneers of the philosophical frontier, who heard the whisper of freedom, and followed it down the rabbit hole. Ready for the revolution, with headphones on and podcast player at 1.5x... We are the Audionauts."

Check out BTCPayServer there, or run a node and check out LNBits. The latter is a simpler setup with a lot of simple extension style features 👇

I totally agree and love the second part of your post though. And also agree with the first, just that I wasn’t suggesting it persinally

I don’t think sentience is on the near horizon. I think we will have learning models, millions of them, for every possible utility/goal under the sun.

This.

I have a lot of respect and appreciate numerous left voices in bitcoin. I am still socially left on a lot of issues, however the left is *generally* supportive of absolute nonsense when it comes to economics, which is reeeeaaally hard to reconcile. And more importantly it’s fundamentally imbedded into bitcoin. You can argue all day about what philosophy it supports, but there is no wiggle room whatever to the economic principles instantiated by bitcoin.

The idea that my refusal to share Marxist ideas on the makes me “right wing” is, imo, very shallow thinking, especially lumping that in with libertarianism and ancap as if these are all the same. 🤨