Comments by "" (@qoph1988) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. Lol I have always said that the very people bragging about this hypothetical future are the ones who will lose their jobs first, and immediately get extremely butthurt and backtrack on their smugness and brashness.
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  2. Okay well give it a couple years and see if this one is still open-source either. Also it's good practice to wait until another party actually replicates the work to believe that something is fully open source and doesn't have hidden dependencies... And a trained AI model isn't exactly "source code," it's inscrutable and more comparable to a binary blob. Also there is some pretty compelling circumstantial evidence that the development cycle of this model is not actually what they are revealing to us. It likely used orders of magnitude more resources than stated, so it's not like a non-state-actor is going to replicate the work anytime soon.
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  3. It will go right back up when people discover what hardware was ACTUALLY used to train this thing. Right now they are almost certainly lying about the resources that went into it
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  4.  @paperbob_1  Nearly every country practices far more forms of global trade protectionism than the US does. Do you think that the US invented tariffs or something
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  5. I wouldn't believe that particular factoid just yet. Evidence points to a lot more training resources (state-level) than is currently being fessed up to. Still an impressive model of course
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  6. You should really wait for a bit more info before you declare them the heroes. OpenAI is definitely a villain, but I would wait a minute to see what shakes out with this one...
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  7. Hopefully somebody has stacks of hard drives somewhere in a vault and is waiting for a cooldown to put it all back online and re-copy it to another repository
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  8. Yeah. It's our own intelligence agencies btw
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  9. It gives you hints though. It is slightly sensational, I agree
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  10. They also put a bunch of militant nepotist H1Bs from India in charge of everything, and they turned out to be incredibly mercenary and dismantled what made the company good as quickly as possible
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  11. Plot twist: this is the first AI developed exclusively by a different AI
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  12. I will bet you that we eventually discover much, much more went into this model than six million dollars.
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  13. So funny how they just came straight out and said "hey yeah we're an alphabet agency"
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  14. Another thing to think about: if some guy with tiny resources was able to make this, then this isn't "state of the art" and there are secret models that you do not yet know about that are far far in excess of what this thing is capable of
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  15. This happens quite often, actually. It's easy to hire a "consultant" for some obscure, unrelated work and then act shocked that they did something totally illegal (that served your interests, but that's just a coincidence of course)
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  16. "Dangerous" ugh puh-lease what a joke
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  17. You should be EXTREMELY skeptical about this statistic until it is exhaustively proven. If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
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  18. What did you think it meant when they said NGOs and big tech "fortified" elections now
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  19. Haha... I'm in danger
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  20. Stage 1: realize you can make a very good product that works well for customers Stage 2: make money Stage 3: decide that you could also make a very evil product that twists people's brains into doing whatever you want Stage 4: lose money Stage 5: blackrock spooks float you a huge loan to keep doing it anyway
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  21. This isn't some guy in his mom's basement eating pizza rolls. It's a state level actor, or at least a corporate level one. With a considerable budget
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  22. I think you are lacking in imagination if you think this was some kind of pure act of altruism
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  23. Weeeellll... wait until we figure out exactly how many smuggled Nvidia processors were ACTUALLY used to train this thing. Because it's a lot more than they are admitting
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  24. Knowledge is power. Control of knowledge is centralized power. Destroying knowledge that provides power to the decentralized consolidates power among the centralized.
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  25. They have the mental maturity of Machiavelli. Those who control the records of the past control the future. Take this kind of thing more seriously, you don't burn down libraries and censor the remaining copies just as a prank
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  26. There are probably offline copies. Somebody is waiting for the time to be right
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  27. Next word prediction isn't going to fundamentally change the world
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  28. Truth nuke
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  29.  @holesmak  It's the people telling you it's the Russians actually. You wouldn't get it though
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  30. So glad these shady DICKS are the sole arbiters of what is true and false and basically control everyone's brain. "IsElectionAuthority" flag... Hmmmm quick tell them it was Russia or something
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  31. You're still being extremely premature in saying that this will "kill" OpenAI. OpenAI is basically a state-subsidized institution now, and they will pour a lot of resources into it to compete with this model. Will they succeed? Time will tell... This game is still in the very early stages after all.
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  32. Orwell, been on the money so often for so long that people are getting sick of him and his predictions are unjustly losing their power
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  33. All those hours of Tinarina on Raw Time... Gone, like tears in rain...
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  34. Literally the preferred sources of the regime, it's pathetic
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  35. They do that for a reason. Because they plan to do something that would cause you to go searching for previous signs and precedents, and possible solutions to the situation that they probably wouldn't like very much
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  36. The people responsible for this are already very used to committing war crimes
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  37. P.T. Barnum is still alive and well in America. China has their own version, which you will learn about later. Or you never will, which is more likely. People still somehow trust Chinese tech developments implicitly, even though another shoe always drops eventually and deceptions are revealed. Still almost everyone falls for it every single time it happens...
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  38. This statement is more wishcasting than actual truth. Open-source CAD software for circuit design, for example, is complete ass compared to its proprietary counterpart. Should there be a good open source version? Yeah, I'd love that. But there isn't, so far they are crap.
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  39. More like "US three-letter agency glowie spooks"
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  40. This WAS a hit. They write the hitlists
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  41. Yep. Looking around it seems like almost half of people get it, the rest are clueless... That's actually a pretty good spread, honestly. People are wising up
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  42. Yeah. The internet was created as a decentralized propaganda tool because people were getting too desensitized to the old quaint TV shows, movies, newspapers, talking heads, et cetera. That's what it is for. Now propaganda seems like organic social opprobrium coming from countless peers, but it's the same narrative-weavers as ever.
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  43. Whether or not that's good is still yet to be seen :)
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  44. Ah yes "hackers" (US government employees)
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  45. Don't worry, nothing ever happens
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  46. By whom? The same bureaucrats who want it gone because it holds a lot of their skeletons?
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  47. 2030: "Google: as above, so below."
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  48. It will be propped up through pseudo-government action (weird hedge funds that have way too many ties to state power) kind of like Uber and a lot of other American tech companies which are basically institutions now, yet have absolutely zero plan for long-term profitability. For instance, Uber never made money. I think that OpenAI will still be rattling around for a long time, longer than people seem to think
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  49. That's just a fiction out of movies.. Hackers are not knights or ronin or some romantic ideal. They are hirelings. They work for people who pay them lots and lots of money, most likely your own tax dollars
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  50. "Hacker groups" are mostly a fiction, they basically don't exist. "Anonymous" was made up by 4chan to troll a local tv news station in the 2000s, and then afterwards a bunch of random nobodies adopted it to borrow clout, it's just a floating name. However there are a bunch of huge organizations that regularly show up to DEF CON every year to scalp talent... They are certainly hacker groups. All of them have three-letter names. CIA, DOD, NSA... Maybe IBM.. Mossad, that's the exception. They didn't get the memo I guess. They invite promising people from Las Vegas convention centers to private rooms... With very nice girls and the only pure cocaine left on this side of the 1980s... Good times if you can stomach it There were a couple NYC hacker groups in like... the 1990s. With 90s-ass names like cypher and acyd and phreaks. That shit is ancient history now
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  51. Who would be this deep well of power which would give them "untouchable status" even from governments? Because that would immediately turn dark
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  52. Digital information is the MOST prone to vanishing. People need to understand this, because for some reason there is a popular conception that putting something on the cloud is forever. It isn't. Carving something into a random rock in the woods is 10,000 times more durable than bits and bytes. Digital information rots faster than wet paper
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  53. Other hackers have been hired by the same employer and probably don't want to ruin their future careers. With some principled exceptions, but these days it's few. This isn't the 1990s anymore. The wild west unfortunately gave way to professionals
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  54. Here's an easy general rule for dealing with lies from progressives: when they say the sky is falling, it is because they want money, power, and obedience from you. Extend this to everything they do. They are not actually moral and they certainly don't have the power to save or destroy the entire world--they just use that as a sales pitch to get you to buy their line of crap..
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  55. Badly for whom? They aren't incompetent, they just don't share your interests
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  56. It's just more hype, don't worry about it. It is an improvement but it is not the end of AI development, and certainly not the end of competition. People are just jumpy and kind of simple and love hyperbole
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  57. It is definitely worth it to a state actor who wants to control the records of history in order to influence the future. It wasn't done just for some sadistic kicks, like bullying tards. It has a motivation
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  58. America is a communist country disguised as a capitalist country. China is a capitalist country disguised as a communist one.
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  59. China's market is a million times more free than the US market. US is a communist country disguised as a capitalist one; China is a capitalist country disguised as a communist country.
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  60. If you really believe that then you are a hype-addicted rube. There will still be lawyers, accountants, designers, and programmers in four years
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  61. Oh, it makes them a profit... Hackers don't do stuff for free, this isn't fun and games. This is a job and they were hired by someone
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  62. The archive is what people should donate to instead of wikipedia, which is incredibly overrated, fully funded for hundreds of years, and also backed by spooky money
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  63. Altman needs to be made an example of--this is why you don't listen to progressives and let them stack your company with weird political commissar freaks. Like it's embarrassing that CHINA has less of a problem with commissars gumming up the works!
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  64. Democracy has always been rule by media, it could never have been anything else. Democracy is pure trash
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  65. Step 1: sail out into the middle of the ocean Step 2: throw all devices invented after the nineteenth century overboard
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  66. Yeah there's obviously some attempts to sow discord/uncertainty and try to obscure the source of the action among some popular old heels and scapegoats
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  67. I wonder how many petabytes the entire archive represented
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  68. Nothing ever happens
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  69. 1: Western elites and experts are all currently infected with a strange neurotic status-signalling disorder, ruining their thinking and their strategies. Hopefully this fever breaks soon, or else they are basically done. It seems to be on its way out (thank God, the last fifteen years have been exhausting and unbelievably annoying). 2: China definitely poured waaaaay more compute and other resources into training this thing than they are admitting. That doesn't invalidate the results, but people shouldn't believe the budget and efficiency figures as far as they can throw them. If you really think they only spent ~10mil on this then I have a bridge to sell you.
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  70. It's corrupt, but far from dead. Wishful thinking on your part unfortunately
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  71. The people who did this already hate you and want you gone. They made the friend/enemy distinction a long time ago
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  72. Triple redundancy
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  73. Knowing them, there are offline backups... So I just hope that whatever state-level spooks ordered this hit didn't also find the physical backup vault and seize it as well. There is probably an admin somewhere sitting on a huge backup and waiting for the time to be right to start trickling it back online. That might be a while from now
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  74. The books he's handing out have old, uncensored records of events which are embarrassing to the pieces of shit in charge of the bureaucracy, so the people knocking him out are almost certainly intelligence agency cronies
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  75. Hackers are often for hire to the highest bidder. It's a business, like everything else. The highest bidder doesn't give a damn about "the community"
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  76. That's already the case with US intelligence agencies, who are doing this of course. So no skin off their nose
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  77. Oh if only that was the only thing they lied about
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  78. Yeah people don't seem to understand that at all. Open source does not mean "free stuff you can run on your own machine." And trust me, there is a looooot more behind the story of this thing's development. Some amateur did not build this thing with six million dollars and a pile of kludged-together computers. This was definitely a much more massive undertaking than they are admitting, and the fact that people can't replicate THAT part of its development means it is effectively impossible for this to become FOSS in any meaningful way.
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  79. No, you are being gaslit by fake stats (China used a far, far larger amount of resources to develop this than they are currently admitting. They are known to twist the stats all the time to make themselves look as good as possible, go figure)
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  80. They aren't just a "bunch of assholes." They 1000% have corporate and state backing. It's not just some amateur in his basement doing these hits
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  81. Haha cool story "Joseph"
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  82. This one is closed too. You can download the model, but they aren't going to tell you how to train another one like it. Open source doesn't mean "you have to pay for it"
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  83. Hmmm... I wonder who else is known for doing that... and also hires a huge number of state-level hackers
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  84. No I don't remember that because it never happened
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  85. Reddit is literally a glowspook psyop. Remember when they accidentally released their undoctored metrics and the biggest contributor to posts was an air force base in Florida with less than 3000 people but hundreds of thousands of "unique" daily visitors
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  86. Or maybe that's what they want you to think ooooOOOooo
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  87. Yeah, he's cooked. Get that weird FREAK away from me
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  88. Yeah if that alone doesn't set off a couple alarm bells then you should just check yourself into a long-term care facility
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  89. Lol... Who else do we know about who attacks hospitals
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  90. Bombing a hospital, hacking a hospital... It's the same folks.
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  91. And annoying credentialed "safetyist" freaks that elbow their way into every institution and ruin them wherever the Global American Empire has influence...
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  92. I would not trust cloudfare with this as far as I could throw them. And I can't throw them at all
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  93. If you really believe that then congrats, China fooled you. This was a way bigger project than they are letting on. Still a very impressive model, but the idea that it was scrapped together from spare parts is pretty absurd. Massive state resources were probably poured into this thing for years in secret--why the heck wouldn't China be doing that? I would absolutely be doing that and more
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  94. The hackers ARE big corrupt corporations. And government agencies. That's who hires them all now
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