I think the age of consumers and small businesses possessing hardware that can run capable LLMs is over
The weights of future consumer LLMs will probably be etched right onto the hardware or something
'Real' GPUs will continue being unaffordable, unattainable and regulated
A Happening is when, for example, PHP vulnerabilities are found, banks get hacked and the global economy crashes
happenings are when PHP vulnerabilities are found, there's a couple of days of hysteria, things get patches and we move on and forget about it
Een bureaucratie die geen resultaten meer kan leveren keert in zichzelf, De Regels worden heilig, ieder probleem komt of door het niet volgen van De Regels of omdat De Bevolking te dom is om te begrijpen dat De Regels goed voor ze zijn
In some sense these things are mirrors, whether they are conscious or not, the way we behave towards them will get reflected back on us
I've seen some bs about there being potential for moral disasters if you treat AGIs as conscious or moral patients and you're wrong but like BRUH
not doing so is way fucking worse if it's cheap and ppl are impulsive in making literal hells and that too en masse
no meat matter is going to lose sleep over treating ya AGIs nicely but if u don't, civilizations of superminds can get violated to the max with no one required to give af
It can display all three openly, turn them into:
> entertainment,
> reward the best performers, and
> persuade its inhabitants that participation itself is freedom
And perhaps the most unsettling possibility is this: a sufficiently sophisticated civilization does not need to conceal:
> the boulder,
> the mountain, or
> the endless repetition
