I don’t see it. GLM 5.2 seems noticeably worse than Opus and especially GPT 5.5, the poor vision capabilities are also a massive strike against it since these are a huge improvement in the frontier models that can make all the difference when working on anything visual. Running it locally is its biggest advantage but for a lot of use cases that isn’t needed and is a burden to set up and maintain.
Honestly, just go for walks or do something else physical that doesn’t involve a screen. Don’t listen to a podcast. Just take in the scenery or focus on what you’re doing.
This is an attempt to fix the currently broken payment system for the web that has caused a lot of the problems we face: clickbait, paywalls, requiring account signup, ad bloat, personal info collection, etc.
It would enable informational sites to fund themselves with small anonymous payments per article instead of squeezing ad revenue and personal data out of their customers.
Incumbents will hopefully be disrupted by this enabling more independent authors to actually make a living.
This is just the latest incarnation. They’ve already used the same tactic successfully to remove other freedoms not related to tech. Just compare the stories from older people about their childhood experiences (when they’re being completely open and honest) with the way children are raised now. My own parents did things that would get them on a terrorist watch list nowadays like building explosives and home made mortars or even just walking through town with a shotgun to go down to the creek for duck hunting at the ripe old age of 13 (with no adult supervision).
There are plenty of applications that would be useful right now. Specialized models for tool use, like fine tuning for command line tools that are already well established and don’t change often. I’m sure there are many areas where the training data is essential crystallized and unlikely to change. Think of them more like delegated agents or coprocessors that another model could route to so instead of routing to a quantized or lesser model it could use a full fidelity model that is faster, almost instantaneous.
It won’t work, it’s just another crank of the enshittification ratchet that will make everyone’s life worse. Well, everyone except those who control a lot of wealth and power, they’ll still be comfortably isolated from the people they abuse.
Nuclear winter would be caused by a nuclear war so there would be a lot of effort put into surviving the effects of radioactive fallout, it would be the first thing on everyone’s minds and would be an ongoing concern. In that case there would be many other sources of radiation to deal with. There’d be plenty of other hazards leftover too in any disaster of similar scale. Those aren’t reasons to not use potentially hazardous materials, the best thing to focus effort on is preventing those worst case scenarios in the first place and having a plan to deal with them if they do happen.
Isn’t this no longer true? I’ve seen many experimental archaeology documentaries that use a recipe that uses pozzolanic ash and rock from volcanoes in Italy that they show to create the same properties found in Roman concrete. We don’t make concrete with it now because the supply is too limited and the expense of mining it would be greater than making portland cement.
Please explain how people in the midst of a nuclear winter aren’t going to be aware of what a radiation hazard is? Come on, just think for a moment before you say something.
People have more experience with hunting and with wildlife than they do with nuclear power. Though I’m not sure why whaling is included since commercial whaling is banned by most countries as a result of anti-whaling protests.