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I run local LLMs and they cost me $0 per query. I don't plan to charge myself more than that at any point, even if the AI bubble bursts.

The human brain is doing a lot of stuff that's completely unrelated to "being intelligent." It's running a big messy body, it's supporting its own biological activity, it's running immune system operations for itself, and so forth. You can't directly compare their complexity like this.

It turns out that some of the thinky things that humans did with their brains that we assumed were hugely complicated could be replicated on a commodity GPU with just a couple of gigabytes of memory. I don't think it's safe to assume that everything else we do is as complicated as we thought either.

Two separate united houses can stand, though.

Well, one of them can. Based on how their economies seem to do, the other one's going to be in trouble pretty quickly.

It's what lots of people really want to have happen, so headlines that say it's going to happen are going to be extremely popular.

And then AI will just go away and everything will go back to normal again, yes? It'll suddenly stop working and so people will stop using it for all the things they're currently using it for.

“Never believe that antisemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge… They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”

-- Jean‑Paul Sartre’s 1946 essay "Réflexions sur la question juive"

No, that is the intended effect. Their enemies will become criminals, which means they can arrest them and use them to justify further state power.

That's part of why we hate them no?

Hate isn't generally based on rational decision making.

Sure, but we don't know where that plateau will come and until we get close to it progress looks approximately exponential.

We do know that it's possible for AI to reach at least human levels of capability, because we have an existence proof (humans themselves). Whether stuff based off of LLMs will get there without some sort of additional new revolutionary components, we can't tell yet. We won't know until we actually hit that plateau.

Tomorrow he'll be back to blaming Zelensky.

its crazy that you're framing personally blocking someone so they cant reply to it as though I'm changing the rules for lemmy communities.

It is, though. By your actions you would change what someone else is able to do, regardless of what community they're in. By blocking someone you're creating a new rule on what that someone is allowed to do and see across all of the Fediverse.

That's the fundamental disagreement here. I don't think this is acceptable. You can change what you see, and moderators can change who and what is allowed inside their community, but nothing you do should be affecting what someone else can do across all of the Fediverse.

I'm just trying to explain that what OP wants is reasonable,

And I maintain that it's not reasonable. You (and OP) want individual users to be able to control what other individual users can see and do on the Fediverse. They've tried that on Reddit. RunawayFixer found this experiment, for example. The results were not good from a pragmatic perspective, let alone a philosophical one.

I think you're going to have to accept that in a free environment there are going to be people saying things and reading things that you don't approve of. You can create a community with whatever rules you want to enforce there, but you can't enforce your rules on other communities. Just as they can't enforce them on yours.