You look like you were painted by Picasso.

I love how you don’t let facts influence your opinion.

What is wrong with you?

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On a related note, I thought Dennett makes a really good argument in Consciousness Explained that our minds are basically made of memes in a very literal sense. The wiring in our brains is the substrate, but the memes that get seeded there are what really defines us more than anything.

Gramsci puts it perfectly, the smaller the group you are in and the less exposure you have to the broader world the smaller your ideas must necessarily be.

It’s the general problem of defining yourself as being against something and not actually being for anything.

It’s really the lack of self awareness that makes it so galling. They genuinely think they’re the neutral default and don’t understand that the ideology they subscribe to has no privileged place.

I expect so as well, and China also has a lot of incentive to invest in alternative substrates since they’re behind on silicon. If one of these moonshot projects they’re pursuing delivers that would make current silicon chips look like vacuum tubes by comparison.

There are a few different tracks here. One is software optimizations where models require less energy to use. That’s been moving really fast over the past few years, and there are still a lot of papers that haven’t been integrated into production systems that are really promising.

Another track is hardware architecture where the substrate stays the same, but chip design improves. A general example of this is SoC architecture like M series from Apple of Kirin 9000 from Huawei. The architecture eliminates the memory bus which is one of the main bottlenecks, and RISC instruction set facilitates parallelism much better than SISC. A more specific example would be ASIC chips like what Taalas is making which print the model directly on the chip.

And the last track is the one you mention with using a more efficient substrate. Notably this will directly benefit from the other two tracks as well. Whatever software and hardware architecture improvements people come up with, will directly apply to chips made out of graphene or other materials.

That’s very cool!

I expect that software will continue to get optimized, and we’ll see new algorithms that are more efficient than what people are doing currently. However, it’s possible we’ll start seeing hardware specifically built for models as well. For example, there’s already a startup that uses ASIC chips to print the model directly to the chip. Since each transistor acts as a state, it doesn’t need DRAM and the whole chip requires a small amount of SRAM which isn’t in short supply right now https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html

The limitation with this approach is that the chip is made for a specific model, but that’s not really that different from the way regular chips work either. You buy a chip and if it does what you need, it keeps working. When new models come out, new chips get printed, and if you need the new capabilities then you upgrade.

You can see how absurdly fast their hardware version of llama 3 is here https://chatjimmy.ai/

I think by the time AI becomes efficient enough to be profitable, it’s going to be efficient enough to run locally and the whole AI as a service business model is going to collapse. We’re basically in the mainframe era of AI right now, and we’ve seen this happen with many technologies before. There’s no reason to think this case will be different.

Just to give you an idea of how fast this stuff is moving. Qwen 3.6 was just released and can be run on a high end laptop, it outperforms Qwen 3.5 from February which required a commercial grade server to run. https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b

Yeah, and nothing wrong with that if it’s the sort of thing you enjoy doing.

Same here, having watched how the lives of my friends who had kids changed reaffirmed the decision of not having any for me. You basically have to be prepared to dedicate next couple of decades of our life to raising kids and not doing much of anything else. And you end up giving up the freedom to do things like move to a different town or try a new career. Your primary goal in life becomes having stable income to raise your kids.

Yes, we need to do things like space exploration because these are the endeavours that advance humanity. Even in practical terms, plenty of discoveries that are useful here come from technologies developed for space exploration. If you’re really worried about unproductive use of resouces, maybe worry about how we deal with the pedo elites that rule over us and hoard resources on unimaginable scale.

Seems unlikely given that would mean accepting that Iran won the war.

Have you been to feddit lately?

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because Europe is American protectorate