Fabiana Cecin

[Shital Shah @sytelus]

Current LLM architecture is so inefficient that most people don’t realize how fast GPUs are.

A *single* token generation for 1T model spends same number of flops as

- simulating 2hr weather for small city
- chess engine playing half game
- multiplying two 255000 digit numbers

We are basically brute forcing our way to AGI.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

The "income tax" is a relatively recent invention. Before that, taxation was be levied on businesses, on extraction of the commons, on monopolies, on toxic products, and so on.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

You don't have to "trust" monopolies; you have to tax them, then send the money to people directly before it gets suckered in by government corruption.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Every AI CEO goes on stage and tells you the product is safe and the benefits are real. Satya Nadella went on stage at Code Con and said the opposite. The perception is terrible. The industry earned it. And he explained why a cookout in Quincy, Washington is the only honest answer anyone has given so far.

He did not soften it.

His exact diagnosis: you cannot go out there and tell people you have unbelievable technology and then in the same breath tell them they are losing their jobs, you are taking their water, and you are taking their energy. He said that is why the anxiety is real and why the backlash is deserved.

Then he made the only argument that actually holds up.

Microsoft has been operating a data center in Quincy, Washington for 20 years. In that time the local tax base went up, local taxes went down, and employment increased.

The town threw a cookout to celebrate. He has 20 years of longitudinal data showing a data center can regenerate a community rather than extract from it.

The AI industry is spending billions on announcements and almost nothing on proof.

Nadella is sitting on the only real evidence that exists and most people have never heard of Quincy, Washington.

The backlash is not about AI being bad. It is about the industry asking for trust it has not earned yet.

Nadella knows that. Most of his peers are still pretending they do not.

(Watch the full podcast on YouTube at https://t.co/sIavrpNvkz)

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

Taxation was basically invented *for* toning down monopolies, for oppressive economic structures and centralization of power. But since these economic structures end up owning government, the tax law you get is that people are taxed instead of these monsters.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

Government contracts cough

[Valuetainment @valuetainment]

JUST IN: Anthropic CEO says AI companies need hundreds of billions in revenue, or they'll go bankrupt.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

And thus the entity that you want to be ever more powerful is the human. That's where the entire wealth, the entire power is. If you are not learning, getting stronger, then the technology is worthless.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

One reason why AI-assisted coding is so powerful, that is, LLM plus human coder, is that the defects of one are features for the other.

Context forgetfulness is a problem for the LLM, but for the human, it gets recycled as a solution.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

When AIs do wonderful things, that will always be because of human operators. The AI is just an inert tool; you can always trace everything it seems to be "doing" to a living being -- us.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

It is one thing to conceive of a psychotherapeutic process, it is another thing entirely to look at your own processes on your own mind and spot where the virus was installed and then have the balls to remove it.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

The CES thesis is that there's a translation layer needed between the corporate and hierarchical business internet (the "web") and P2P software.

[Fabiana Cecin @fabianacecin]

And it is recursive. It is not destroyed by some external process. It is destroyed by "corrosion": by epistemological infiltration and rot.