The Thingamajig.

It’s fine, even Tetris is a modified kriegsspiel.

"China is good!’

“I disagree.”

Removed by mod

How high, sir?

Right, it’s bad when one country invades another out of nowhere, like for flimsy historical excuses to use their land.

Fish attacks mirror.

I could hold up a blank sign and you’d parrot the same script about “fantasy.”

“We can’t moderate you for applying our rhetoric consistently unless you explicitly say which camp you mean!”

There are other ways it might work, like if there is a method of compression that is discovered that reduces the necessary RAM and Compute needs by 2-3 orders of magnitude. So models that are considered very large today (100-300 billion params at full quality) might be able to run effectively on a single 32GB GPU that costs a few thousand dollars.

You might want to check in on how well distilled / quantized models are doing, compared to gigundo datacenter versions.

Yes, wouldn’t it be terrible if one country claimed the entire territory of another.

They’re fucked.

Local models are already winning. Those benchmarked a year behind the biggest of big boys, a year ago. Six months ago they were six months behind. Yesterday Qwen released 3.6 27B and it outperforms 3.5 397B… from February.

Either we’re plateauing toward the asymptotic limit of LLM capabilities, and the endgame runs as well on a toaster as it does on a server - or breakthroughs use big fat models as a glorified search space to be rapidly discarded. Both options point toward neural networks as a lump of algebra that sits on your hard drive and occasionally spins your fans. Remote computing loses, as it basically always must, and the drastically reduced requirements for competing on local software favor clever new competitors who aren’t a bajillion dollars in debt.

Moving off-the-shelf lithium cells from a green-branded battery pack to a yellow-branded battery pack wouldn’t solve the problem - it is the problem. The yellow tool should accept green battery packs, and vice-versa.

Vendor lock-in must die.

Do power tools next.