The tech bros have insane GPU lease agreements. More than they can reasonably afford/use. When “amateurs” can recreate photoshop, 1000x “free” (would be wasted) compute at a better photoshop they control is something they can do too, and beat OSS and adobe. There are capable decompiler to readable/organized source code agents now too. At one point, the LLM labs can stop releasing new models, and just steal everything themselves.

sure to make users find an alternative to macroslop to give their money to to lick to the center of the slopsie roll.

I get that people are complaining about bugs, but its still quite an achievement to decompile to commented source with meaningful function names and variables, and just be able to recompile.

It turns out this is not what author claims to have done. Recreation from scratch is the claim. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

Age of decompiling to reasonably named functions is here though. https://github.com/morluto/rea . Which is what I assumed was used to clone.

It’s like saying steel is specifically designed for guns. For plastics, stronger is a nice property for many applications.

The moat is shrinking overall for open models, but for models that fit in under 128gb ram, passing opus 4.6 and pushing up against 4.8 is an impressive achievement.

There are 1-2gb vram models that should fit in anything. Game doesn’t appear to be texture heavy, and targetting a 6gb gpu, would cover anything less than 10-12 years old.

qwen flash is great. Privacy/sovereignty and protection from others stealing your data is very valuable and equivalence to frontier 3-4 months ago is very impressive. Your point is correct, and larger models have the capacity to solve problems with more general knowledge baked in, where smaller models simply can’t find critical information from search, or develop a strategy as well if they are clueless, and just repeatedly randomly guessing.

At the same time, they are doing extreme price gouging with little improvement between generations since h200. Huawei actually has better $/performance ratio and accelerating faster. Others have better inference solution, with AMD doing better on $/training performance too. The fact that Nvidia is the one propping up the AI bubble, sinking their cashflow into dead ends, makes it a bad stock too. Peak NVidia BS got exposed in an Australian IPO this week. It was too absurd to get anyone to buy and got cancelled. Heavily backed by NVidia.

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less performance at comparable cost to an amd 780m mini pc. lower power, but lower performance/watt even. Some future potential though. It is more of a competitor to raspberry pi, but where you need 10gb ethernet and processing beef: firewall/router, video decoding, some AI assistance/routing/gateway

The only possible achievable competition goal for US in AI is in building skynet. Boiling the oceans to obtain pure fascist oligarchist supremacy over Americans and pro Israel opinion in the world, far more than military targetting or weapons production supremacy advantages.

There is zero chance long term of having the power infrastructure to support AI/datacenters in the US, and zero chance of extending AI into manufacturing dominance. China’s manufacturing supply chain, and abundance instead of tariff scarcity, makes it impossible for them to lose their edge to anyone unfriendly to China. Models that are less than 2 months, and closing, behind, and massive south east asia datacenter development that provides 90% of local frontier US model traffic consumed in China, makes US Oligarchism’s national security pretense a farce.

US is collapsing late stage nazi colonial economy, and geopolitical AI is not even the last bastion to put all eggs in a basket for, it is a direct tool to pillage the US/colonies for oligarchy during accelerated collapse.

Hard to understand author’s point, but it is supposedly this:

When someone is sick, lonely, or frightened, do we want a real person in the room, or will a bot do?13 Do we want our children taught and shaped mostly by people, or are we content to hand that to machines? When a court weighs whom to believe, or an employer whom to hire, do we want a person behind the call, or can a machine sort it?14 Do we want the systems that increasingly run our lives steered by a few private companies, or held more widely accountable? And do we want a shared world we can make sense of together, or one so flooded with synthetic stuff that no one can tell what is real?15 None of these can be answered by asking whether AI produces quality or slop. They are about the communal lives we want, and when we reach for “AI slop,” we’re sloppily pushing each other on exactly these questions without ever confronting them out loud.

When we complain about an example of AI slop, we’re implicitly opining on all of those questions against over reliance on AI. Author is complaining that there are more dangerous/annoying aspects of AI overtaking decisions rather than content production.

It seems innapropriate/unfocused to bring up discussion of those topics, with zero opinion/argument by author, framed as a distraction from not stating an opinion on slop.

I don’t think it can substantially reduce diesel prices prior to midterm unless it encourages US refineries to go even harder as if $6+ diesel retail wasn’t already enough for them to go full out. You’re right that diesel export capacity for Russia will take a while to rebuild.

Just like he’s been claiming the Iran war will end right after the midterms

There’s 2 general possibilities for “ending” Iran war after rather than, with bonus points for elections, prior to midterms.

1. Respectful sincere peace with Iran, all the while declaring victory as US forces leave. This raises questions about just how victorious the US is. The reason this path can’t be chosen before midterms is “Iran failure/impotence” is neither a good look, nor a reason to vote for the diaper licker candidates.

2. War escalation under theory that this will force Iran to beg to surrender. “end of war” prediction comes from more probable war until 2028 election…

I doubt US establishment is capable of peace with Iran, and so option 2 is only desired path. Still there are 2 huge obstacles.

1. Democrats sweep both houses in midterms. War powers, and war budget not passed. Impeachment in the air.

2. even if GOP rigs a win, a $700B military budget increase will have bond markets revolt harder. Global economic collapse is already teethering. There is no war path, or pretense of super power status, that ends well for US/global economy.

Pressures to end the war (just leave with big victory speech) are inescapable. Fucking it up hasn’t stopped US before.

transparent in its methodology

To qualify as transparent means disclosing “based on x days in this date range”. That is not disclosed.

Pre US coup, and nazi orientation, of 2014, Ukraine had 4x standard of living over just 2023 levels. Shithole permanent destruction is that regime’s fault, 100%. US puppetted Ukraine is 100% responsible for the destruction of Ukraine. Nazi “bussified volunteers” is a bribery operation instead of constructive prosperity path.

By “everyone here” I meant the delusional NATO subjects, rather than Ukraine psyop accounts.

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what is this hardware performance and price?

How is the linked graphic relevant to this discussion?

Annualized Revenue rate is a made up number, that is a separate accounting fraud, for being a purely selective cherry picked time frame that gets multiplied.

The reason they are changing their made up number from $70B to $50B is because they used to include their partners’ revenue (extra $20b annualized) as their own.

This starts in November, and not a midterm saver. Unless US is able to significantly restrain Ukrainian attacks on refineries, oil instead of diesel is what will get exported more. The reason for US to do this is that they know oil prices will collapse the global economy based on their November military plans for Iran.

US started the war through Ukrainian puppet rulership. Ukraine absolutely can stop the war by allowing liberated regions they hate, and were ethnically cleansing to force the war, to join Russia as they voted for. Pure demonic evil to support nazi rulership to the last Ukrainian.

Yes. They have banned exports. While sanctions lift is dressed up as diesel for us, its actually all energy sanctions relief to all.