Bruh sorry, stop running any RW services off an SD card, it has always been terrible and unfortunately it will remain terrible, you can buy a used SFF with >5x the compute and a sata ssd for the same price as a raspberry pi alternatively put an nvme hat on it

If it’s a good film then those are works of art and interpretation in themselves, but I suspect you have something which is more the product of a mechanical bureaucracy in mind than works of art: maybe like a production of Harry Potter or The Hunger Games.

If those are the kinds of books you have in mind I can see why you get confused/frustrated by how others feel about slop, since you’ve been shoulder deep in it for your whole life!

As a software user, I feel just as frustrated and disappointed when I look at a projects website, code, and commit history and it’s slop, why in the world would I use this garbage when I can just prompt my model to make my own?

Realize the people using this to make slop menus and book covers feel the same way, wow this is useful and saves me so much time/money!

Notice that not a single business on earth so far is passing those time and money savings on however.

These AI tools primarily benefit single person businesses and they are creating a race to the bottom so that's not entirely true

Ironically, this is what could actually push them to adopt more opaque financial tools, making it harder to track for actual law enforcement.

if only Monero didn't exist..

They have a different culture and values, the US’s strengths lie in individualism and the character of the individuals that live here, and that’s both good and bad. But it’s entirely unsurprising that when responsibility and ownership is sharded up into trillions of tiny pieces and diffused that the outcome is awful.

Great! Sounds like you might need some assistance, just let me know if you want to tackle that weekend project you’ve been thinking shoot, practice a new skill, or just chat, I’m right here and happy to help.

The horrible thing is I wrote that all by hand

Gave me a laugh, but comment was also originally dead'd because I assume sounds too much like AI. (For obvious reasons)

How does wasting money on public goods deliver value to shareholders or help you build a doomsday machine?

I have no opinion on what will happen, and know close to nothing about the memory industry but just to think out loud about how market turbulence could cause memory prices to increase:

- Suppliers that memory companies depend on JIT are entangled and go under, halting production or stalling capacity increases

- Downstream suppliers / distributors for not vertically integrated memory companies go under, and there is a shortage of finished product ready for consumer use even though there is an excess of memory chips

- Memory producers / fabs can’t handle the depressed demand and go under / have to halt production, alleviating the demand glut for the surviving suppliers, who have less competition. Coordinating a cartel becomes easier when there are fewer suppliers and becomes more desirable now that everyone realizes it’s a matter of survival.

There are also plenty of good reasons to think prices will go down if demand is depressed, but it does seem possible for prices to go up

It is not free? You just pay them with your private information and by looking at a few ads. That is not free. Unless you believe information and time have no value?

Newspapers aren't free either. But Twitter, I mean that crappy one-letter site purchased by a chud, is still garbage. I'm definitely not defending it.

> Is there evidence that these mythical low-print-run books are being purchased by Amazon and friends for destructive scanning?

Is there evidence that they aren’t? All of the common works are already on libgen, if these books are worthless repetition they will contribute little to the training corpus, labs want high quality interesting texts and they have unlimited budget to spend on it. Paying $300 for something rare with millions of tokens of interesting and original text for training is definitely fucking worth it, spending $1,200 to get all the copies and block your competitors from getting it is most definitely worth it!

> I simply don't see why railing against the AI giants about this without also contributing significant effort into protecting these low-print-run books from getting jettisoned by university libraries makes any sense.

Do you think it would be OK to rail against for example, a genocide if I wasn’t substantially contributing to some effort to stop it? This sophistic (and uninteresting) bit of rhetoric boils down to: if youre not trying to fix it yourself, dont complain!

(reminder that one of the basic principles of a democratic society is that each person has some concern outside of their personal affairs)

we're done - straight to genocide, later buddy.