Noticed that most of the comments here are despairing.
I think that perhaps there's a bit of hope, that by the forces of the market, the value of human distinctiveness will rise in comparison to whatever is the generated mean. This is what I am looking into.
I've read elsewhere that it's 10x less electricity for inference workloads compared to standard GPUs. It is not clear to me, are the model weights built into the silicon (e.g. per model tapeout), or is this a new kind of chip architecture that still has weights in DRAM/SRAM?
I'm glad to see this. Almost 18 years ago I implemented a similar kexec device+memory preservation for a storage vendor. It was done on a Linux kernel of that day, and it had had a memory reservation and handoff protocol between the two kernels to keep some specific PCI device alive, allowing for state restoration at the application side. I'm proud of the fact that the kernel replacement was just under 1 second in execution (after init process optimization) and the whole kernel+app was less than 10 seconds.
> When Mark pointed out this discrepancy, the patient commented that her left hand frequently did things on its own
That is the scary part. I would image it's like having a parasitic mind that sometimes controls half your body and sometimes just smooth along with what your 'talking' part of consciousnesses is doing.
Can human institutions regulate matrix multiplications that contain certain weights?
Lessons from history: can you regular data transfers that contain certain data? AFAIK torrent downloads for TV shows and movies that otherwise get streamed, is still live and kicking.
For the majority of people, it seems to me that news are background noise to which they tune in occasionally, but otherwise they are just going about in their lives and it does not affect them much.
However, for the few details-oriented analytic people among us, the news are a *mental pit hole*. This is what I saw on myself since 2020. The mind works under an illusion that there is a possibly to synthesize some positive a change in your personal life based on information from the news - but it's wrong. It didn't keep me from browsing though, and getting addicted to those information streams, just like sugar.
So occasionally I do a 'news detox' like the OP describes.
Surely social developments can affect you and your neighborhood, your city, or your country on the long term, but in that case it is better to consume a monthly or yearly digest.
Or a daily digest. I vibe-coded a daemon that sends me the Wikipedia's daily summaries, once a day. It's a one page of 'this is what happened' without interpretation (but with left-leaning bias, because Wikipedia).
http://github.com/da-x
Email: alonid [at] gmail.com