How expensive would it be to run a full-size DeepSeek-R1 on ones own hardware or rented server?
Instead of paying giant service providers, could small communities of people affordably run their own, for privacy and ideally customization?
you know you are strong when everybody hates you.
You'd think before sending repatriation flights, someone would make a phone call? It wouldn't be, like, "Hi! We're here! Can we come in?"
abundance is awesome and i support it, but presuming abundance will overwhelm distributional concerns is a bet we’ve already taken that works out poorly, both from an abundance and distributional perspective.
i am radically for the equitable abundance agenda!
The American consumer looks forward to valuable innovations.
potentially dangerous criminal aliens are mostly very nice people.
the US military is an example of an effective, high quality labor pool reinforced by a well organized benefits state. sets a dangerous example.
does deep seek low training cost presage the possibility of models built and trained by nonprofits with broad public support, with no plutocrat or aspiring plutocrat anywhere in the pipeline?
in prospect revenge is more appealing than remedy. but it’s like a bag of cheetos — you’ll find you wish you’d gone for the salad after you’ve binged.
“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV. Today I will be performing your heart surgery.”
sorry, i love light AI. suck the value out of all the plutocrat’s capex. may all their billions turn to dust while we run whatever fancy autocomplete we want on our laptops.
just encountered a Rolls Royce SUV that looks like basically every other oversize SUV, and i think to myself wtf are you guys doing to your brand?
looking forward to the Lamborghini minivan.
on the bright side, a military under Hegseth might struggle to defeat Greenland.
a through line of the Trump Administration’s actions is testing the proposition nothing the Federal govt does matters or is any good. will people really die if PEPFAR is halted? is NIH just a job program for dorky Democrats? doesn’t FEMA just step on better informed states? isn’t the military just foreign aid?
section 230 at the very least should not apply to paid content. https://freeradical.zone/@tek/113884711130516385
people are constantly accusing the federal government of being a jobs program, but that’s just Congress.
[new draft post] Hard information, soft information, groupthink, corruption https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/01/24/hard-information-soft-information-groupthink-corruption/index.html
@Natasha_Jay i’m confident it’s true.
in my dream, once you ran AI software on a microchip it didn’t matter what you ran afterwards. the microchip had become sentient.
a bit more seriously, though yes it’d take some work to get the apparent quality high, make sure the citations are real, etc, would this be so different than the role of a think tank? https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113880345230884176