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  • Doomerism encourages apathy and helplessness. I don’t agree with resigning ourselves that the situation is unfixable. Every .1 degrees we can shave off is worth fighting tooth and nail for. As far as whether humanity as a whole is sustainable indefinitely, I don’t buy it. Even if we run out of rare earth metals 1000 years from now that’s 1000 years we have to fix that problem.

    The universe is unsustainable, life is inherently doomed because of entropy. Doesn’t mean we should give up because there will be no usable energy in 100 trillion years or whatever. The sun will burn out in a billion, the earths orbit will be too hot in 100 million. Would that still not be worth living for just because it can’t be saved? Where does it go from no point to worth fighting for?

    (OP I’m not arguing with you I’m pointing out the problems I have with the article. I do agree it’s gonna be bad no matter what… all the more reason to try)



  • An oversimplification but Imagine you have an algebraic math function where every word in English can be assigned a number.

    x+y+z=n where x y z are the three words in a sentence. N is the next predicted word based on the coefficients of the previous 3.

    Now imagine you have 10 trillion coefficients instead of 3. That’s an LLM, more or less. Except it’s done procedurally and there’s actually not that many input variables (context window) just a lot of coefficients per input


  • +1 90% of apps people use are web browsers or native apps that still require internet to function. Fighting the good fight is gonna take a lot more than a few bored devs taking on a desktop Linux side project or two. Unfortunately accomplishing and keeping up with the scope, utility, and usability that freedom violating proprietary applications provide requires the resources and hierarchy of a large organization. We need well funded non profit organizations and government sponsored free software more than we need a few weekend GitHub contributors pushing PRs to their 56 star library. (As much as I, a developer, love and appreciate those 56 star libraries)