Sgiath

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish, and you feed yourself. He's a grown man. Fishing is not that hard.

[Pavol Lupták @wilderko]

One of the biggest dystopian fears I have about the future of the EU and the US is a ban on open source (and a few more signs like this), and I’d be willing to bet it will actually happen.

Specifically, powerful open-source (Chinese) LLM models that anyone can download and easily bypass the “guard rails” (via Obliteratus/Heretic).

The fact is, Chinese models are giving everyone a hard time, so this ban will be welcomed by both EU/US governments and AI corporations, which will thereby eliminate the competition:

There are more than enough reasons for the ban:

1. Powerful Chinese models are not EU Act compliant (and never will be). The EU has been giving them the middle finger from the very beginning.

2. It’s trivial to bypass all “security checks” and thus “horribly abuse” the models. This is now even the official rhetoric of Anthropic’s CEO (which I’m really disappointed about): https://t.co/CX6ooyJ3F1

3. With uncensored LLM models, you can generate as much child pornography as you want, get advice on making explosives, organizing terrorist attacks, or planning your own death.

And that’s terribly dangerous, and European citizens “must” be protected from it.

4. They are destroying the business of Western AI corporations, which are constantly “subsidizing” their operations. These companies would love to raise the prices of all their models, but they can’t because Chinese competitors are constantly releasing more powerful LLMs for free.

The fact that we have affordable versions of Claude or ChatGPT is largely due to powerful, free Chinese models. That’s why Anthropic/OpenAI can’t afford to triple their prices (which is exactly what Sam Altman would love to do).

A ban on Chinese open-source models will therefore enjoy very broad support both among EU and US politicians—who will “protect” their citizens from “dangerous AI”—and among Western AI corporations, which will eliminate their competition.

And the rest of us can “look forward” to significantly higher prices for existing AI services and police raids on our devices, where the “discovery” of censored Chinese models will be equivalent to the “discovery” of child pornography.

And I would very much like to be wrong.

https://t.co/HtJ2NtOLwv

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

"The warmth of collectivism", all.

To be fair, "public utilities" like the power grid were socialist monopolies prone to brownouts during high demand times before Mamdani. It's still fittingly funny to see the embodiment of more socialism forced to acknowledge its failures.

[Frank Braun @thefrankbraun]

The three most important fights for the next decade:

1. Free communication (private & uncensorable).
2. Free transactions (private & uncensorable).
3. Free intelligence (private & uncensorable).

Encryption, ZK proofs, LLMs: So much potential.

Alternative: perpetual dystopia.

[Vít Blaha @vit__blaha]

Téměř 42° Celsia.

Vůbec si nechci představovat jak by to tady vypadalo, kdybychom neměli emisní povolenky a pevně EU hodnotově připevněná víčka k PET lahvím.

Všichni bychom uhořeli.

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@thefrankbraun I hope so but I am still not selling all my BTC to ZEC :D

[Frank Braun @thefrankbraun]

5 reason why Zcash has a real chance against Bitcoin as a SoV:

1. It's actually private.
2. It will be quantum recoverable soon.
3. It will scale (Tachyon).
4. It's Lindy.
5. Zcashers are insane.

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@CharlieKrob @StandaAnkap Ale taky pripady, kdy to podle me jasne podvod neni ale taky to je navazane na cenu zbozi: "Nejlevnejsi ve meste" nebo "O 20 % levnejsi nez konkurence" jsou podleme veci, ktere jsou v pohode si tam napsat i kdyby nebyly pravda.
Tak se jen ptam ostatnich,do jake kategorie to spada

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@CharlieKrob @StandaAnkap Na stranu drouhou, je to celkem dost navazane na informovani zakaznika o cene zbozi, ktere si hodla koupit, kde to je podle me na hrane. Dokazu najit priklady kdy bych rekl ze to je podvod - napis 10 sats, ale transakce je pak za 20 sats

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@StandaAnkap A co kdyz budu mit u vstupu na dverich napsane, ze realna cena produktu je o 20% vyssi, nez je napsana na cedulce? To by obstalo u tveho soudu, kdyz bych je zaloval, ze mi vzali o 20% vice nez byla cena?
To ze by na volnem trhu takovy obchod zkrachoval, nechme stranou.

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@theo I don't think so, more dependence on centralized services? In the environment where the US government is already deciding if and to who the models can be released? And you think I will put MORE stuff in cloud so it can be banned more easily? Nah

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@StandaAnkap Myslis ze to je podvod? Resil by to tvuj volnotrzni soud, nebo ne?

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@StandaAnkap Tohle je zajimavy pripad
I v naprosto svobodne spolecnosti bys potreboval resit podvody: napr kdyz by na zbozi byla cenovka, ale u kasy by ti za to zbozi strhli vice penez. To je jasny podvod. A ted co kdyz na stitku je napsane 20% sleva, ale to zbozi tu plnou cenu nikdy nestalo.

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@Not_the_Bee I don't have any sympathy for anyone willingly working for EU institutions

[Juraj Bednar @jurbed]

When people talk geography, they talk about countries.

But why is this called geography and not stateography? There are no borders on Earth, they are in the heads of people.

Geography should be about rivers, mountains, not about territories of violent gangs.

[Pavol Lupták @wilderko]

It’s interesting to observe how Musk’s wealth (as the first potential trillionaire) is stirring up the egalitarian population all over the world.

American and European politicians (who usually have never actually produced anything in their lives) write as if his money would save millions of citizens and help solve countless problems for which there is currently no funding.

Musk actually solves problems (unfortunately, he has used—and continues to use—government subsidies, which, in my opinion, is what he should be criticized for the most).

Even I send him over 100 euros a month—for Starlink and a verified https://t.co/i8lzPuJvPe profile.

Unlike payments to the politicians mentioned above:

* I do this voluntarily (not under threat of violence)

* No one is threatening me that if I don’t do this, I’ll end up in jail

* I’m actually paying for services that I want and that are useful to me

Musk is more productive than many countries in the world. He sells his services and products without resorting to violence; people pay him voluntarily for them.

That’s why I’m surprised that people aren’t just as outraged by the massive government deficits and debts that governments create—using money stolen under threat of violence.

Allowing oneself to be fleeced under the threat of violence, and then having that money further plundered among “our people” while letting the entire country go into debt, is an order of magnitude greater problem—one that people should be outraged about.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

@HouseGOP @unboundedlife1 What’s more CRAZY is Republicans have CONTROL and you won’t end income tax.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Anyone wondering why I'm criticizing Israel a lot today...

Your Defense Minister just said this:

"We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again. The 200,000 Lebanese residents who were in the 'security zone' are never returning again. Not one of them will ever return to southern Lebanon"

Your Minister of National Security said this:

"For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn."

And that's just today. You think this is normal?

[The Church Of Satan @ChurchofSatan]

Another 3 part story.

[Sgiath @SgiathDev]

@Dr_Singularity Just don't get hit by a car until we are there