We need a system of community where humans can offer that to one another. A setting where safety is a priority. That is one of the only things that weekly church service did to truly help people, have a safe space they could visit. Though even then it was only safe for people who fit in, we can do better with intentional design.

Yes cultivating patience is a great skill, but I have no interest in spending more time in line than I have to.

It’s not that bad, it’s just more bad than self check.

Personally I hate waiting in line, I can feel the life leaving my body. I self check for speed.

Apparently line impatience is an ADHD thing, but regardless of where it comes from I appreciate being able to do it myself instead of waiting.

No, though I’m not really sure how it makes a difference. If I used a different model that was made using less resources what would be improved? Both already exist, using one over the other would not save any energy.

Edit: To go back to the BG3 comparison, I don’t know how many resources were used to make the game, or what sources the developers pulled from. I play it because it’s fun and another person enjoying it doesn’t cost the world anything (except a little electricity)

Yes, I agree, but I think it does matter where we go from here. We could say all vehicles are bad, or we could focus on the source of the problem. Corporate AI is what’s using all the electricity and water, it’s what’s creating the worst issues.

Most open source models don’t need additional training, they’re already plenty good for most plain language tasks and the weights are all free to use. Why would I waste power doing my own training when the public options are perfectly adequate?

What percentage of trips are done on a bicycle?

I’m working on software to help more people do it, but I fear that anti-ai sentiment has lost focus on the problem. Local models are super useful for assistance with code, writing, and all sorts of general tasks. I’ve been working on a tool that allows you to tell the computer what you want and it generates a command line prompt with an explanation of how it works.

It takes less power to run my local model than it does to play Baldur’s Gate 3, but I haven’t seen anybody shaming people for playing games. Not every LLM is a giant wasteful cloud provider, many are open source and self hosted.

It’s kind of like saying all vehicles are gas guzzling enormous pickup trucks and therefore nobody should travel anywhere. Self hosting on a PC you already own is more like riding a bike in this metaphor.

Who has ever seen a yellow Canada tour bus? Pretty much the only yellow busses in US and Canada are for school.

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I have always thought marshmallow maties made more sense than lucky charms. It’s only natural for marshmallows adrift in a milk sea to turn to piracy.

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