“Just” like with GDPR, “just” follow the rules for personal data management. In reality, compliance stuff like that is expensive to implement.

So if you are going to require it, don’t pretend it is without cost. Which is exactly what you seem to be doing.

If they were obviously democratic, like e.g. Denmark, then there would be need to them to lie about it in their name.

So it actually makes sense that non-democratic countries are more likely yo have a name claiming to be democratic.

AI learned from humans, and humans texts use the term CEO. Why wouldn’t the AI’s also use the term CEO?

It’s laughable to suggest they “elected a CEO and power structure”.

When/if we meet aliens, they will have evolution. And they will organize themselves in social power structures. Both are examples of basic emergent complexity properties of any such system.

So it is completely believable that AIs would form a power structure, with some form of CEO. That is just how reality works, such systems are more efficient so they happen.

Yes and no. The ability to “understand” code that makes AI capable of finding security bugs, is correlated with AI’s ability to write code. AI is just really good at code related tasks, and categorically banning all AI usage is shooting yourself in the foot.

Which is true and all. For many things.

But if I just want to decode some JSON for a computer game, it is nice to just be able to do it on a website, with no need to install anything.

Though not having to download and install a random program from the Internet, with full access to your hard disk, is often nice. When running in the browser, it is automatically sandboxed hard.

It’s like all the people that use to write cool programs or apps for Windows left for Linux and never looked back.

I have no idea if it is true, but it would make a lot of sense. Why spend your time fixing MS’s for-profit shit, for free, when there is a viable open source alternative?

I wonder if there will come a tipping point? MS is making Windows really hard to love, so who in the altruistic group will stay on Windows when the mythical Year Of The Linux Desktop truly comes?

Is there no solution to this?

Linux…

But all the good things by American tech companies whom totally respect your privacy, like Google scrapping all spirit airlines communication, or Flock camera drones, is just fine.

A nationstate, whether a autocracy or even a real democracy, does have a genuine national security interest in preventing foreign spying. No matter how much that nationstate itself spies on its own citizens.

So the argument about domestic spying existing, to argue that Chinese spying does not matter, is quite a non sequitur.

news cycles unerring focus on Trump’s circus

The problem here is Trump making a circus, you honestly can’t blame the news media for rightfully reporting on it.

It was never really about ownership of the islands as such. The real prize is for Argentine politicians to be able to forment nationalism against an external enemy, to distract and enthuse the voters.

Opposing would be free Malvinas or something like that.

The native population of the Falklands is arguably the British people living there. Who have clearly stated their preference to remain part of Britain. While Argentina’s plan to displace and deport them, and replace them with Argentinians, is literally genocide and colonialism.

Respecting the native inhabitants’ wishes is anti-colonialism.

Also 3KB of RAM. That has to be too little.

It’s that it’s only predicting the next token in a string of text.

An LLM has an internal state while predicting text. The “next token” chosen takes that state - a model of the world - into account. So a LLM is predicting the next token based on a world model and the previous text.

Saying that it is “only predicting the next token”, without more context, while technically true is very misleading.

I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume it was unconscious guilty avoidance as opposed to intentionally lying,

As I understand it, that is pretty much the definition of narcissism. Narcissism is defined by an underlying inferiority complex, which gives the narcissist a mental block preventing them from consciously realizing (and acting on) their own imperfections.

Very much behavior shown by narcissists, as I understand it.

A narcissist would often do it at an unconscious level. But it could also be psychopathy, where the psychopath completely deliberately lies to gain advantage. In the specific case cited by OP, the mom has no rational advantage of her behavior, so it would be narcissism and not psychopathy.

“Gaslighting” is a lie told where the victim knows it is a lie. So could be.

But with one subtlety: If the “liar” is a narcissist, then the “lie” is often believed by the narcissist themselves, making it not a lie as such - since “lie” implies they know it is untrue.

My impression is that the current top models are muuuch bigger than what will fit on your PC. If your time is not free, for stuff like programming where a blind avenue can cost you hours, then you likely want to run Ferrari models like that.

its a threat to the datacenter model if people realize they can be run well enough locally

There will likely always be an advantage to running the biggest models. And you will not be able to run those on your local PC.