Well, one of them.

The money would have gone somewhere. The "smart" money went to AI. Don't get fooled.

everybody looks smart in a bull market

I am waiting for the first truly open model without any of the censorship built in.

I wonder how long it will take and how quickly it will try to get shut down.

Most open models have been converted to uncensored versions. Search for the model name with the suffix "abliterated".

That's not a realistic expectation.

Classic examples like:

  User: I'm feeling bad
  LLM: Have you considered k*****g yourself?

Are a good example of what an LLM "without censorship" looks like: Good at predicting the most common sequence of text (ex. the most common sarcastic reply from Reddit), but effectively useless.

In order to build a useful LLM (ie. one that actually follows instructions) you need to teach the LLM to prefer the most helpful answer, and that process by itself is already an implicit layer of "censorship" as it requires human supervision, and different humans have different perceptions on what the most helpful answer is, especially when their paycheck is conditioned to a list of "corporate values".

You can only pick between a parrot that repeats random text from the Internet, or a parrot lobotomized to follow the orders from their trainers (which occasionally repeats random text from the Internet, because the training isn't perfect).

Unsurprisingly, the lobotomized parrot is more useful to get actual work done, even if it won't tell you what the CIA[1] did to Mexican Students on October 2nd, 1968.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-45662739

Escape from Tarkov is the only reason I have a Windows Hard drive still. It doesn't have anything else on it.

EFT has a pretty ridiculous history with attempts at anticheat. Several years ago they set up their servers to kick anyone with virtualization enabled because cheaters had been using VMs to intercept network traffic (the network traffic wasn't encrypted for tarkov then). The response from cheaters was to use a seperate bare metal build to intercept the traffic. The devs "fixed" it right before windows 11 came out with virtualization on by default.

FWIW, PvE and modded Tarkov does actually run fine on Linux (Streets map doesn't, nor does Arena).

It's definitely not the same, but between Arc Raiders and PvE I get my extraction shooter fix. Online Tarkov is mostly populated by Gaming Wizards™ anyways.

Yes I am playing Arc Raiders now instead of Tarkov because switching is not worth it. Until it will be!

I can't wait until the tech reaches this stage. Infinite desktop space, surrounded by text and terminals. It will be so hard to unplug.

EMACS. EMACS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK.

does something like AllTheMods 10 exist for Luanti? Or Meatballcraft?

Reality matters less than perception.

You can also experiment and make your own[1] using TerminalTextEffects[2]. I added this to my ~/.zshrc

    > /home/keeb/code/projects/login/motd.sh

Which has..

    #!/usr/bin/env zsh

    values=("bubbles" "slide" "beams" "rain" "pour" "synthgrid" "unstable" "poop")
    len=${#values[@]}
    index=$(( (RANDOM % (len - 1)) + 1 ))
    selected=${values[$index]}

    cat /home/keeb/code/projects/login/motd | tte $selected

Change motd to have an ascii art of your choice. Run it in a loop if you want :)

1: https://keeb.dev/static/login.mp4 2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

Another way to look at it is it's very cut throat. Switching costs are low for now, by design. The ways to get you locked in haven't been developed.

> Meanwhile I am talking about unique shit with Claude Code trying to draft on that sentiment for little to no traction with them.

What does this mean? What do you mean unique shit? What do you mean when you say you’re trying to draft on the sentiment? What is “them” referring to?

Genuinely. I’m not being (deliberately) obtuse, just trying to follow. Thanks

Thanks for asking this because for a moment I thought I was too dense to read this correctly

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