I believe there was a r/casualAMA sub for that

This guy looks like Nosferatu doing blackface

Probably not because that sounds gross

Its not the height, it’s the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot

Imagine my confusion when I apologized to my grandpa for being late to Thanksgiving because I blew a tranny on the highway. I had no idea what he meant when he grabbed his wrenches and said “well let’s fix it”

No lol? There’s even the famous story about how their record label wanted to sign her on as solo act but she insisted on contracts for the whole band

Luddites weren’t just people who refused to use new technology. Those groups have existed since antiquity. It’s the Hutterites and Amish and aside from a Weird Al song, nobody really cares about them one way or another. What made the Luddites tragic was their belief that if they could destroy the machines in perpetuity, their [human] labor would never be replaced. It was romantic, human, desperate, and doomed but it was not passive escapism.

What OP is saying (abstinence) has nothing to do with the Luddites.

Gold chains are the standard uniform of the working class?

Oh brother do I

Haley Williams’ solo material is great too

That’s fine to disagree with me but I think it’s a pretty generous reading of OP’s phrasing to take away that all she’s asking is “What if AI ran on your phone?” Having said that: you’re still making some huge leaps here that do approach sci-fi if not magic outright. Firstly quantum computing as a field has stalled. To compound on this, transnational technological collaboration is also slowing. What this means is that it’s unlikely we’ll see another spurt of insane growth in mobile tech that will rival a $24,000,000 rack of Vera Rubins any time soon. The processor tech we have today seems pretty well plateaued.

Locally run AI can exist, and has for a long time now. It’s very feasible, and also resource-intensive, especially on hardware that wasn’t designed for it. The issue of data centers also isn’t really removed here, just mitigated. First and most pedantic: data centers have been a thing since the internet was created. When you pull up a video on YouTube, that data is being served through a data center, it’s only against the insane demands of AI generation that our existing supply of data centers isn’t enough. YouTube doesn’t need to generate that video every time you watch it, just store one copy and fetch it for you whenever you ask. The second point is that locally run AI still needs to be trained. Even offline models need basic updates to prevent model drift and keep accurate knowledge (to be useful). This training data needs to come from… a data center. Admittedly, in possibly smaller amounts than full-access to an online generalized LLM.

Anyway, another point: there was a lot of trial-and-error to get to the cheap smartphones of today from 1985. 41 years of it. In retrospect, most people would say it was worth it (most). Will people say the same about AI? It’s doubtful. This is for the exact reasons I said above: the criticisms of AI come from when it works right! They’re criticisms against the product itself, not like those against early smartphones (“It’s too expensive!” “The battery dies too fast.”) It’s almost a given that efficiency will improve, but is this a good thing? More slop and more surveillance for cheaper? I don’t think so.

This is pretty much my thoughts as well. My unsolicited rant:

The technology is good and anyone who says it’s “just autocorrect” are wrong. Having said that, I agree that LLMs are useful really for nothing more than low-risk, personal research and/or signposting to other sources. It’s in no way a replacement for a human (unless your definition of what a human does is that it’s just a thing that produces words at you - in which case, you’re probably a middle manager - very myopic, regardless). It’s also not appropriate for anything financial, professional, or confidential. Here, the first L in LLM is a hindrance. Local, small language models are more appropriate and cost-effective here.

Anyway. I don’t “use AI” like some people but over the last year I’ve used my access to Proton’s Lumo (already included in my subscription) a handful of times and been pleased with the results. The way that I see it is that all the LLM libraries are trained almost entirely on Reddit or websites that stole their content from Reddit anyway, so use it like you would Reddit: “LGBT horror movies before 2000,” “Summarize and cite criticisms of Camille Paglia,” “Was Bioshock 2 well-received at launch?” All very low-stakes. Doesn’t really matter. Could’ve been a Reddit thread, but it’s likely that any response there would’ve been a middleman for an AI answer anyway.

Anyway. More: Call it cope but I’ve been developing a theory/outlook that the internet as a thing is basically dead and that the Pandora’s Box of LLM tech, which can produce a basically infinite amount of what was once the internet’s currency (read: information, but really: text), has killed it. The Fediverse is utopian but I don’t think anyone here really believes it will ever be anything more than a cluster of fringe communities. Having said that, I justify good LLM use (like mine, lucky that) as being the “New Game Plus” mode of the internet. Everything is already there, everything’s unlocked. There is no challenge. It’s kind of cheating and you’re not really supposed to play the game like that. But at the same time, there is no going back to the real beginning, I just have the option of nostalgically re-creating it by going to old.reddit or postfixing before:2022 to all my Google DDG searches. Fun, and game-ish in it’s own right, but also artificially limiting for no reasons beyond that.

/rant

If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a bike?

I know I shouldn’t be so snarky here, but your question is basically “would AI still be hated if AI wasn’t AI?” Or “what if we had magic?”

My opinion: honestly, no. People hate LLMs because of the slop they produce on the internet and their use as a tool for surveillance, not even for the outrageous cost it takes to produce it and the financial criminality to keep it going.

Ed Zitron is the biggest voice in “our sane fringe” and yet he really doesn’t focus on these immediate consumer-side effects because in the grand scheme they’re inconsequential and actually (as in: mechanicistically) temporary.

There are some (uninformed) peopke who think the data centers are the only bad thing about the LLM Bubble, but anyone who’s actually put the thought in knows that making less hurdles to proliferation is a bad thing.

I can only vouch for my own experience, which is that proper LSD is extremely powerful and shouldn’t be taken by beginners and that modern labs have made better lysergic drugs with milder effects, like 1cP-LSD, which is admittedly the only one I’ve tried personally.

No idea why I forgot about psilocybin as a substitute. This is definitely the better suggestion though.

Very, very bad in my experience. You don’t hallucinate entire objects so much as textures, which can be very troubling and lead to a spiral if you’re not in a good environment. You’re better off using research chems IMO, which can give a much more manageable effect that doesn’t last 12 hours

Thank you for saying much better what I couldn’t figure out how to phrase

Making sure I have enough missiles seems to be the kind of thing I would take care of before launching a war against military superpower but what do I know

Absolutely not lol

Okay

Do you think Garland wasn’t the worst possible pick for AG?