• SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    And yet, looking at this phenomenal waste of resources, tech bros took a good hard look at it and said ‘Hold my beer’ - and made LLMs.

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      Llms are made by genuinely smart mathematicians and computer scientists. Techbros are just the ones hyping them .

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        You know, that’s a good point. LLMs themselves aren’t horrible abominations - it’s capitalism that, as usual, ruined a good thing.

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      And the main problem LLMs seek to fix is human labor getting in the way of shareholders value.

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        There’s actually one more thing that far and away is used for scams more than crypto. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you. It’s totally legal to own too. Crazy world.

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          Just a little over a century ago we could get laudanum or whatever over the counter, whenever we wanted. And things were so much better.

          Not ONE drug cartel, thank God we went to war, right?

          The drug war actually made meth and fentanyl use inevitable, to replace heroin, cocaine, etc. If only we had stuck to the classics.

          oh well. Time for my wellbutrin and duozepine and quetiapine and prazosin.

          Those are the drugs I have to take daily to stop screaming, because screaming is bad now or some shit

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            These are excellent points about the war on drugs. None of them apply to things that are banned that aren’t drugs.

            Be that restricted radio spectra, copyright infringement, counterfeiting, proposed bans commercial bitcoin processing, etc.

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          At the very least we could ban commercial usage which would be relatively easy to do while eliminating or at least reducing a lot of the harm. I know it’s rich coming from me of all people but you can do things on a scale.