Yes, the ones that finance, develop and operate those tools to feed all humans, should absolutely be entitled to have more than the ones that do nothing and benefit from them.
Otherwise, soon, those tools will not exist anymore.
Imagine ancient mesopotamia where the priests supposedly controlled food distribution because food was accumulated in temples. The priest himself is not working the fields or builds tools, but he demands respect. He will put feathers in his hair, talk elaborately and call it a day after he takes a good chunk of food for himself.
With a 128K context length and 8 bit KV cache, the 27b model occupies 22 GiB on my system. With a smaller context length you should be able to fit it on a 16 GiB GPU.
Philip K. Dick should have been one of the 1st ones realizing that such a brilliant and creative work as that coming from Lem, could never have been created by a committee, much less by a communist one.
I made no assumption that government run organisations are necessarily efficient. The comment I responded to implied that government monopolies are inefficient by their nature, which I would argue against.
This all tariff imbecility created solely by Trump it’s atrocious, still, if EU response is to hit the main players in Nasdaq - where there are a lot of chip producers necessary for the ongoing AI revolution - we are just shooting ourselves majorly in the foot.
Surely there are much better companies for the EU to apply directed tariffs. EU absolutely has their weaknesses, but giving blunt responses (like China just did and put tariffs on everything) is not really our way. Expect EU answer to be well crafted and directed at very specific areas.
Nitpick: No, the entire Republican party is at fault here.
They willfully ignored every warning, and attacked the people giving the warnings. They promoted him, protected him in two impeachments, eventually re-elected him, and actively confirmed his cabinet of sycophants instead of requiring some adults in the Oval Office. Then they took specific steps to block anyone from challenging his "national emergency" against our neighbors, by declaring that the rest of the year simply "doesn't count" for the 15 day timer in the original legislation. [0]
Some Republican legislators may have had hard-choices for securing their own re-elections, but they still chose this route.
I would argue that China is just playing the game and EU should do too while it lasts. No time for sophistication in a street fight, this is not chess.
China has latitude in inflicting pain on its own people that the EU does not, and simply mirroring the US’s tariffs would impose significant pain and will not be the EU’s first choice. It may happen anyway, but it’s a harder decision for the EU than for China.
To me, really, the interesting thing is that _the US_ thinks it can do it. Given how annoyed the American public got about expensive eggs, I really question whether that is true; I don’t think people will sit back and go “cool, I can’t afford consumer goods now, and I’ve just lost my job, but it is all part of Dear Leader’s plan.” The idea, which Trump has actually vocalised, that the American public will tolerate pain seems totally at odds with, well, history.
> giving blunt responses (like China just did and put tariffs on everything)
It's incorrect to describe their response as "blunt". As someone who follows mainland Chinese media I can assure you that their policymakers have thoroughly prepared themselves for years. They even foresaw in 2021, after Biden took office, that Trump would become President again, unless he was assassinated. (Yes, they foresaw the assassination attempts as well; and no, they did not orchestrate these attempts -- if they did, Trump would be dead already.)
The Chinese have much more foresight than you seemingly give them credit for, unless I'm misinterpreting your words (in which case I apologise). On the other hand, European leaders have been extremely geopolitically infantile.
Well, Chinese don’t have proper elections so there, I don't know.
But you can be sure that in the USA, this will all stop in 2 years with the midterms, and be reversed in 4 with the presidential elections. No one other than Trump’s fan base likes this even now, imagine in a few months when people start feeling the terrible repercussions.
The whole issue is that no one can be sure it will stop in 2 or 4 years. That's precisely the risk: will it stop? Will it not? Either way, I'm not investing some millions of dollars to setup shop in the USA if all that investment will go bust if the next election cycle removes tariffs.
Anyone saying they are sure about what is happening in the next 2-4 years in the USA is delusional.
Esp. considering how they've always got someone to blame for the issues that they cause. It's an ancient playbook
1. Identity a problem
2. Blame $group of people for the issue and rally citizens to you
3. Oust previous administration/rulers with rallied citizens
And then to stay in power
1. Create or identity a problem
2. Blame $group of people for the problem
3. Rally citizens to ostracize the new group of ppl
4. Back to 1
The issues never need to be resolved, as long as the citizens blame someone and feel empowered to lash out against someone (the people getting blamed).
Hopefully so, but I'm not certain elections will be the same as they have. There's reason to believe Trump has no intention of leaving office, and the Republican party has not intention of losing power. This is their chance to remake America long term, and they can't really do that if it gets overturned every 2-4 years.
Democrats have been saying exactly the same since Bush Junior was elected: "OMG, this will surely become an autocracy by the end of his mandate! There's no way we will ever have democratic elections again!"
Really, I don't like Trump, I think he is a buffoon, but Democrats are so tiresome, calling wolf every time they don't get what they want. I know toddlers with more self restrain.
You're not paying attention. Doesn't matter what was said before. It matters what the Trump administration is doing this time. I wasn't saying this after Trump won the election. It was everything he's done since taking office.
Trump himself, out of his own mouth, with his own tongue, using the air from the breathe inside his lungs, has literally and explicitly with no ambiguities said on multiple occasions that he wants to violate the constitution and have a third term. Republican leaders are humoring the idea.
You mentioned there are multiple occasions: You got a quote on that? I did a quick Google search, but the most recent events are hogging up the results and I didn't hear anything literal about him saying what you claim he was saying. If you're referring to the most recent question asked by a reporter, what you're saying is false -- there was nothing literal or explicit about it.
The specific text in the 22nd Amendment states:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"
And many people seem to have collective amnesia about the January 6 Capitol riots, the Trump-Raffensperger phone call, the fake electors plot, etc. Trump has shown us many times who he is, and yet somehow many conservatives still refuse to believe the evidence that is right in front of their eyes.
I am not part of Trump's fan base, and I am in favor of taking action to reverse decades of negative trends I've seen happening as a result of American corporations selling their souls to the highest outside bidders. It's going to be short term pain for long term gain.
Tariffs are not a magic button for "short term pain, long term gain". The way they're being implemented is more like "short term pain, long term pain".
You genuinely think the corporations will stop "selling their souls to the highest outside bidder" with tariffs? Like, how exactly could such a thing happen?
Besides, corporations are actually better equipped to deal with sudden expenses then small businesses. Corporations will suffer the lest and possibly will pay for exceptions for themselves in white house. Smaller businesses wont be able to do the same.
I keep hearing people say short term gain, but no one wants to put a time on short term, nor do they want to do the math on how long it would take for their their plans to come to actual fruition using tariffs. There is nothing short term about setting up steel mills, rare earth extraction, chip factories, growing coffee...
This isn't short-term pain for long-term gain; it's short-term pain for long-term catastrophe.
The tariffs aren't some carefully-devised scheme to work out how to reshore manufacturing to the US; they're a slapdash scheme based on such idiotic economics that people had to do a double-take because the President of the United States and his cabinet couldn't possibly be that stupid. And once that sinks in, it becomes extremely counterproductive to the ostensible aims.
Why should anyone bother reshoring anything to the US? You might escape 30% tariffs on your product, but only for 30% tariffs on the inputs to your product. And living in the US means your long-term plans are always at risk of the toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum because, as we've already seen, a deal he makes yesterday can become the worst deal in the world that is proof of how much the US is getting cheated tomorrow.
Negative trends of what? Exchanging highly paid services for cheap goods?
EU needs to start taxing heavily any services provided here by the USA. Having the USA moron in Chief pretending that the comercial balance is solely made of physical goods to create an Excel sheet warrants a nice lesson.
>EU needs to start taxing heavily any services provided here by the USA.
Their services are provided by companies/branches in the EU not the US.
When you buy a EC2/S3 bucket from AWS you get invoiced by Amazon Luxembourg, not Amazon Washington. When you buy a Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Meta or Apple service, you'll be buying from a company registered in Ireland or Netherlands. And most of them also have datacenters in the EU for their EU customers.
So how do you tax them more than other companies in the EU? Make The Great EUSSR Firewall?
What you see here is entirely about "corporations selling their souls to the highest outside bidders", who do you even think benefits from all this if not the oligarchs?
“Buffett likened the situation to a wealthy family gradually selling off parts of its estate to sustain its lifestyle”
Yet, actually the proper analogy, would be a wealthy family using their disposable income to buy products that make their life easier, and sometimes, even make them more productive so that they can have even more income.
I don't see this as being better or worse than all the reboots, remakes, and pointless sequels for movies that make the bulk (in financing) of Hollywood's present production: these also make the same "assumptions" of how some idea should look like. In fact, I think they make it even worst.
Give me "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip, as if he was defeated by the righteous fight against patriarchy by a strong, independent woman, that is better at everything than he is": Sure, here is Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny for you.
In fact, when generative video evolve enough, it will usher an era of creativity where people that previously were kept out of the little self pleasing circle of Hollywood, will be able to come up with their own idea for a script and make a decent movie out of it.
Not that I believe AI will be able to display properly the range of emotions of a truly great actor, but, for 99% of movies, it will be just fine. A lot of good movies rely mostly on the script anyway.
Otherwise, soon, those tools will not exist anymore.
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