Is that any different than the KKK that burn crosses and say they are Christian, yet hate others

Just like we can’t allow Chinese EVs in the USA, because we can’t and don’t want to compete.

VPN usage would go up, to get the banned models.

In the United States it’s illegal to sell Chinese EVs. It’s also illegal to download copyrighted music and movies. Which one do you suppose illegal open-weight models would more closely resemble?

Because they're doing such a gangbusters job here keeping copyrighted music and movies from being download?

that is his point...

I would so download a car.

Imagine that, people using VPNs to access data inside of China instead of the other way around.

I agree but we are dependent mostly on Chinese models at this point to pull it off.

where they came from doesn't matter so much so long as they are open weights and I can run on servers I control.

The final weights in themselves don't tell you anything about what went into the training process, e.g censorship.

Keep dreaming, we are in hyper capitalism mode, ebshitification, etc. They just spent weeks of government time state and national worrying about people on food stamps buying candy or coke, to save pennies, they watch the poor like a damn hawk but let millionaires rape children in the biggest pedo ring in history.

That's a very sad outlook.

This problem is hard because it's hard to spot, but the fix is actually surprisingly easy (at least in the short term).

The scale is on the order of climate change. If the academic base of economists were to unify behind this theory, change could happen. Only a few countries need to adopt this to show merit to the idea (although, that will take like a decade to truly show). Unlike climate change though this isn't fighting growth, it can recover it, and it's much, much easier to implement. That's why I think it can be truly bipartisan.

I think open source AI could cause it. I hope local AI takes over but this government will probably ban it.

They’d probably pay someone to do the work for them, like drive the truck while they sit in the cab.

It’s a nice wish, but we don’t have that kind of power and they won’t put themselves in a situation like that by making a bill then voting on it. The fatal flaw of the constitution is it has no ethics or morals baked in, it should have things in there like employee handbooks do with a specification that amendments cannot change. Again wishful thinking.

I see the segregation of duties falling apart. "My company" would hire that politician, set him on a nice office, air condition, unfiltered internet, an assistant, 4 SBUX coffees and pizza every day. And once the 2 months are out, let the favors begin!

That’s what I was wondering, lm studio and draw things are easy to use apps that handle much of the cruft for you

I do a lot of fine tuning and development with small models themselves (not just using an LLM over a HTTP API). So downloading the models directly and running them from the CLI was natural for me, so that's what I reached for when I wanted to play around with this.

This blog needed a video honestly, I tried to set it up but haven’t yet

I wonder if it has microplastics, but probably depends what kind of fabric was used

Reminds me a teacher lived thriftily in life and donated 2 or 3 million to a school in his will when he died. The school used it to buy a state of the art high school football scoreboard.

Donating money is just not it. It's so easy to spend money you didn't work hard to make yourself. If you wanna do good, figure out how to deploy the resources to your cause.

The main thing is to trust who you're donating it to. Charities often struggle to do important but boring stuff because donors want to add all kinds of strings to the donation.

Step 1: Have a stated cause or known interest

(Most people struggle to reach this step)

There are plenty of highly effective charities.

Maybe but the ones in my city(who take city money) have literally nothing to show for.