Obviously it depends on your GPU. A crypto mine, you’ll leave it running 24/7. On a recent macbook, an LLM will run at several tokens per second, so yeah for long responses it could take more than a minute. But most people aren’t going to be running such an LLM for hours on end. Even if they do – big deal, it’s a single GPU, that’s negligible compared to running your dishwasher, using your oven, or heating your house.

Exactly. Talking. Violence isn’t going to make more leftists.

That said, call me paranoid but I think three-letter organizations are the main obstacle to organizing. I don’t know what to do about that.

I don’t have a source for that, but the most that any locally-run program can cost in terms of power is basically the sum of a few things: maxed-out gpu usage, maxed-out cpu usage, maxed-out disk access. GPU is by far the most power-consuming of these things, and modern video games make essentially the most possible use of the GPU that they can get away with.

Running an LLM locally can at most max out usage of the GPU, putting it in the same ballpark as a video game. Typical usage of an LLM is to run it for a few seconds and then submit another query, so it’s not running 100% of the time during typical usage, unlike a video game (where it remains open and active the whole time, GPU usage dips only when you’re in a menu for instance.)

Data centers drain lots of power by running a very large number of machines at the same time.

agreed – how do we make more leftists though?

Running an llm llocally takes less power than playing a video game.

There aren’t enough leftists to win with violence, so our only hope is to win with dialogue. What’s your plan?

Okay I see what you mean. I suppose I meant, “if the pandemic is H5N1, then the seasonal flu becomes H5N1. If it’s H3N2, etc…” – what would be the right noun for this? strain? variant?

That is interesting information, but I think what I said was correct though. I don’t mean to say that the strain takes over and doesn’t mutate thereafter.

Metaculus also says 7%.

Fortunately, there’s no way something so unlikely as 7% could realistically happen. The odds would be a thousand to one.

I learned a lot about bird flu by reading this overview. Did you know that every time a major bird flu pandemic occurs, that strain takes over as the new yearly seasonal flu, dethroning the previous?

It’s obvious that the secular trend in English towards shorter sentences will tend to reduce the frequency of periods, at least in the case of works where commas and periods are rarely used as part of numbers and similar non-phrasal symbols.

Shouldn’t that be increase?

Even if they were able to train them without stealing, the threat they pose to our society would be equally problematic.

I feel like this is most lemmy communities? What pro-billionaire lemmy communities are there?

That guy really looks like Bradd Pitt

Kinda victim-blaming with the jews there.

• Economic collapse
• Being too anxious to work
• Fascism
• Unexpected death
• Singularity

I like the idea of gender essentialism ≈ apartheid

so does this mean y’all guys are finally coming around on utilitarianism?

Why is BC moderate risk? Over what span of time? We have an NDP majority for the next 4 years. We’ve got some of the best transgender protection laws and transgender health care in the world.

[edit: y’know what, this was a stupid post. Ignore this.]