“When gold was at US$4500, silver should have been US$300, but has been suppressed for all these 50-odd years by banks who’ve been short the whole time – and maybe I should get mad at myself for playing in a game where it’s manipulated, right?”
Read: "I should have won bigly, but I didn't. But my ego tells me I can't be wrong, so the game must have been rigged."
Boy, does that remind me of someone...
Fuck this guy, the other guy, and fuck their corrupt moneymaking schemes.
"Using free Chinese models that you can run locally and offline is a security risk. People and businesses high on AI should be forced to use our expensive cloud-based models that funnel all their data through our servers and can be turned off or price-hiked by us at any moment!"
And now, everyone!
"IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE!"
That's the thing: if constituents only get their info (or opinions) through chatbots...
...by axing or redirecting (read: embezzling) funds once spent on actual science?
So... Here's another resource that will become available again once the bubble pops?
Good luck expanding that to the rest of the world which is just discovering that, while not perfect, China's open weights models are
a) good enough for 95% or all companies out there
b) a lot cheaper, also because they're
c) self-hostable, meaning: they'll always be available, unlike U.S. cloud AI which you'll be cut off from whenever Diaper Donnie feels it's time for yet another bribe.
It feels like nitpicking, but there's a relevant difference here. If you can only access the weights (and not the training data and the learning algorithms used), it's hard to get (say) a Chinese model to freely talk about Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Just tried it locally on Deepseek R1; it's doable, but takes some prompt hacking.) The models may be freely available, but there's bias and censorship baked into them.
Well, they do have that fruit basket, so...
Like showing up to the bank heist in a neon pink monster truck.
Fuck you very much for conflating privacy with illegality.