Nagaram [none/use any]

I run my copy of Deepseek on a RTX 3060 12 gig that cost $300 and uses less than $5 a month of electricity. That’s assuming it ran full tilt 24/7 (it does not). It just helps me write hobby code and read manuals for my tech stack. It has helped my process so much as a Systems admin.

It really is a useful tool and a very pleasing one when you’re not giving OpenAI free access to your credit card.

I think people are right to downplay it a bit. I was watching Alex Avila’s “AI Wars” earlier and he was sort of defending the hype about AIs capabilities. Which I agree with but I don’t think the average person understands the nuances in an LLMs ability. It isn’t thinking at the end of the day. It is trying to satisfy the human audience enough to receive math rewards. It’s a dog doing a really elaborate trick in hopes of a treat. But to a lay person it is fully thinking and feeling.

This is not a dangerous stance per se unless we start hooking ChatGPT up to the “please decide who dies” machine. It just wants to please it’s masters and nothing would make Unitedhealth happier than never having to pay out insurance. Nothing would make the DoD happier than justifying the vaporization of foreign brown people based on an AI analysis.

You’re right, it’s just a tool. And a hammer can build a house or crush a skull. But I think we should be okay with a bit of luddism if it stops people from dangling over the nuke button and saying the hammer falling gets to kill us all.

How’s it feel? IMO, most all soldier uniforms feel like shit but they’re easy to get used to.