Stallman was right, information wants to be free, and there is no such thing as a friendly vulnerability, a friendly intelligence agency, or a friendly government.
Sure, and the point is what - that people who are well-off have no right to complain about involuntary arrangements that harm their interests? That those complaints don't matter?
Should those with houses that are in the top 2% of square footage be silent when a home invader breaks in, since they have so much space to share?
Should those who are in the top 2% of physical attractiveness be silent when they are sexually assaulted, and be told that they should be grateful for being so desirable compared to the rest of the population?
Consent is the load bearing pillar across all three scenarios. It's what separates sexual asssult from enjoyable fantasy, home invasion from welcomed guests, and theft from charity. Violation of consent is never more justifiable based on the perceived imbalance of resources.
Reciprocity is great when all parties contribute equal amounts, all parties receive an equal share of the benefit, and the arrangement is strictly voluntary. Think toll roads where everyone pays the same price, only the people using the road pay for it, and everyone using it benefits from it.
It's less great when some parties are expected to give more than they receive in return (in order to provide for those who give less than they receive in return), without their consent, enforced by the state's monopoly on lawful violence, and are demonized for so little as daring to express dissatisfaction with the involuntary arrangement.
$500k? There entire helicopters you can just buy outright for less money than that. Does the $500k ride come with the helicopter itself included in the purchase?
This sounds like a great deal if your annual taxes are less than your annual unsubsidized medical expenses, and a terrible deal if your annual taxes stretch into the six figure range as a young healthy person.
Also worth looking at EleutherAI, LLM360, SmolLM, Apertus. Apterus even respects opt-out notices in their collection of the dataset they distribute. KL3M from Kelvin Legal is even trained on a 100% copyright-free legal/governmental corpus.
>23% of Ireland's power is going to data centers
This isn't even a rounding error in terms of global energy usage. Besides, renewable energy is cheaper than non-renewable energy now. Energy demand itself directly drives the deployment of renewable energy. Needing more electricity in a capitalist country literally causes the energy mix to become more green over time.
>And I'm also not aware of anyone working on these models trying to reduce the social damage they are going to do.
Is it fair to account for the social damage without accounting for the social good, like the unprecedented democratization not just of mere information, but knowledge and understanding itself, around the world? Think about how many deaths will be avoided, how many billions or trillions of years of human life will be gained over time, all of the people that gain access to a personalized, individually tailored tutor for any subject on earth, all of the medical and legal advances, etc.
Why stop there? This system can easily be used to target welfare recipients, immigrants, LGBT+ people, black/brown/indigenous people, pretty much any disfavored group of choice!
You're just one election away from "that was during the previous term of office"
GPL and AGPL don't even prohibit for-profit businesses from using software with those licenses, they just say you don't get to pretend it's your own intellectual property and privatize it.
It's not anti-commerce or anti-business to contractually prohibit selfish entities from absconding with public goods for private gain and refusing to contribute any public good back in the process.
Similar idea to public roads - if you want to use public roads that the rest of us enjoy, pay taxes like the rest of us do. Using public roads without paying taxes doesn't make you a savvy businessman, it makes you an amoral freeloader.
If you want an intellectual property moat, fund the labor to build it yourself. The world doesn't owe you a penny.
If the link goes down, the content is available in many other places across the web under the title "The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)"
I got a Beelink GTR 9 Pro for $1980. These Strix Halo systems were a good deal at $2k when the alternative was a DGX Spark (which is similarly memory-constrained, but has about twice the iGPU processing power of the Radeon 8060S, having as many CUDA cores as an RTX 5070) for $4k. The pitch was basically "half the GPU compute (negative), x86 instead of ARM (positive), but no CUDA (negative), for half the price (positive), but you also don't get the ConnectX-7 NIC (negative)". These more or less balanced out to being worth it if you wanted a single-node system that could also double as a generic x86 homelab server once it was obsolete for LLM workloads.
These days, you can get a DGX Spark for $4.7k, so yes, the price has risen, but Strix Halo (with a few exceptions like the Bosgame and Corsair systems) $4k (or more!) is simply not a very good deal. If I were buying new right now, I'd 100% go DGX Spark without even thinking about it.
Gorgon Halo (releasing this fall/winter) is allegedly coming with 3GB memory chips, enabling a 192GB maximum unified memory SKU, alongside minor (100MHz) clock bumps in the iGPU and CPU, plus memory bumping from 8000 MT/s to 8533 MT/s (matching the MBW of the DGX Spark), and is otherwise unchanged. I fear these will be $5000+. At $3000, these would be awesome. At $5000, not so much.
A core part of the scientific method is that you attempt to isolate a single variable at a time. If anything, all this suggests is that this was a better diet-controlled sample population for measuring the correlation of eggs and Alzheimer's than the general public. That said, the methodology of this study does not allow for inferring a relationship between Alzheimer's and meat consumption in either direction.
