So you think AWS is a fad?

So what? That doesn’t negate the value they provide.

Nearly no one is doing anything that is “only possible with AI”. This doesn’t seem like a relevant calculation. People spend on AI as an investment in their current productivity.

Sure but that goes both ways. Any dataset has a bias. My coding doesn’t need to know about Tienamen square.

That’s great for consumers.

A lower signal/noise ratio is never better for consumers.

If the quality of all apps remains high, but if there is an increase of low quality apps it may not necessarily be great for consumers as it becomes difficult to distinguish which are the good and bad quality apps, making it risky to purchase apps.

Not necessarily. European grocery shoppers report higher satisfaction with the shopping experience than American grocery shoppers do.

Those are the questions and there’s stacks and stacks of philosophy pages written about it. Go have a whirl.

Okay sure. But given we don’t know what consciousness comes from, we shouldn’t be too glib about there being a grey area here. Historically people have made racist and speciesist judgments towards other being by assuming certain inferiorities despite obvious “thinking” happenings.

I don’t know “what it’s like to be an LLM” but at some point it will be like something and how will we know?

Ya when it’s your own token budget on the line the smaller/cheaper models are more attractive.

I’ve used GPT mini quite a bit and it’s decent.

That’s a very unsettled and debated topic. Speculative harms are not going to override very real daily pleasures from meat meals.

It's not that speculative, considering it the reason why in tissue transplants derived from animals, the transplants are specially engineered to not have this reactive substance. There is just no arguing with the hard data that the substance is foreign, is incorporated into our tissues, and is attacked by our immune system. The only debate is about the extent of the resulting inflammation.

Inflammation is a bit like nuclear fission, in that when a lot of inflammatory sources come together, the resulting runaway outcome is very bad, like civil war in the body. Rheumatoid arthritis, hard atherosclerotic plaque, and colorectal cancer are the result.

A carnivore diet leads to ghoulish dreams of mass murder. There only pleasure from is on the way down.

Impossible burger is good. Everything else I’ve tried is rather mid or worse IMO. And I think this is born out by low adoption rates.

for many people you could put a gun to their head and they'd refuse to eat an alternative and swear up and down that it's inedible regardless of quality

the US has had a strong lobby propagandizing meat for a century (not to mention the fed subsidizing it) and it will take a very long time to make a considerable dent

there's already an organized resistance to vegetable based and lab-grown alternatives stemming from the same sources, it's nearly on the level of the oil industry which has been caught masquerading as anti-renewable activists

I can’t disagree that there’s a lot of bull-headed people out there.

But I have a pretty progressive social circle and many of them have tried to go vegetarian or been veggie-curious. And honestly I can’t think of a single one who’s stuck with it. (I know many other vegetarians for life).

So that’s my only point. Even among willing participants the acceptance rate is low. Meat is frigging delicious to those who have been raised on it and it’s hard to overcome that, and that’s not a propaganda issue. It’s a technology one.

Otherwise I agree the organized resistance is very frustrating.

there are hundreds of millions of vegetarians in india, so I think a lot of it is cultural context!

meat as status is almost flipped on its head compared to the US, which I will also note eats more meat than any other country per capita!

Totally context is huge. And unfortunately many Indian immigrants or their children become meat eaters in America, I have many of these in my social circle as well.