Warmongers always want us to believe these two things simultaneously somehow:

1) The enemy is fanatical and irrational

2) The enemy will surrender and the war will be over swiftly when they clearly see what they're up against

@ansuz @cwebber @joeyh I do want to play around with llama but that goes so against my instincts of always trying to make development put less strain on my computer (like I really hated how it feels vscode really bloated up). And while yeah, having the model and source code is certainly an improvement, my experience with getting AI/GPU stuff from the past up and running again is... not fun. Having to resurrect a 10 year old version of a model would definitely suck.

@ansuz @cwebber @joeyh the reproducibility will also get pulled out as the model you used gets sunset. Unless all you check in is a series of prompts and a bunch of tests and simply assume future models will do a better job.

It could even be a problem where future generations want a "vintage AI" look for whatever reason and unlike so many past generations of tech, they simply won't be able to because it was a cloud service and the company is long gone.

@cwebber It's pretty simple. If it's like a compiler, then why do you check in the output? And with all the work put into making compilers more efficient (not just making the *output* more efficient), why does it take so long and require an internet connection?

@SteveFoerster @zerodogg I’ve weirdly gotten out of a lot of trouble by being broke/thrifty or lazy. I think fomo is making people reckless.

@zerodogg I hate that the conclusion people jump to from "I'm not sure" is "I'll just go ahead and do the thing that may or may not be bad until I'm sure" instead of erring on the side of not doing the thing.

@henry lol this makes it sound like horses are like Mr. Horse in Ren & Stimpy and just living like a human because he doesn't have to pull people around anymore. These people are just so, so bad at metaphors.

@mttaggart the whole point of automation should be to work around the fact that humans make mistakes, not to place landmines on all the places people make mistakes. I think this tech is being embraced by the same kind of people who didn't immediately have alarms going off in their head about cloud IoT products.