That's why we should strive to use and optimize local LLMs.

Or better yet, we should setup something that allows people to share a part of their local GPU processing (like SETI@home) for a distributed LLM that cannot be censored. And somehow be compensated when it's used for inference

Yeah we really have to strive not to rely on these corporations because they absolutely will not do customer support or actually review account closures. This article is also mentioning I assume Google, has control over a lot more than just AI.

Slashdot moderation and something going by having people tag comments as Insightful, Interesting, Offtopic or flamebait. It assigned positive or negative points based on that.

The two problems were the horrible UI and that at some points evaluators used te negative tags just to punish views they didn't agree with.

But maybe an AI evaluator would be less biased?

>Every ICE agent is armed, and most have ready access to automatic weapons. These are not well-trained members of an elite organization with a storied, patriotic culture. ICE is a personalist paramilitary organization, and the president has indicated that these ICE agents are immune from consequences, even if they kill people.

This is what terrified me: Not that the ICE officer shot the woman in the car. But what happened afterwards. That he muttered "fucking bitch" after shooting her, that he walked nonchalantly after shooting a person, and everybody was recording him. This person goes to his car and drives just like that ...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - 1984

I've found the reaction from most people in the US horrifying since the "grab em by the pussy" days...

I personally think that the more appropriate quote from 1984 is this one, because the cruelty is the whole point :

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.” He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: “How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”

Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he said.

“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?[...]”"

1984.

My thinking exactly. And actually in Mexico we have https://www.doctoralia.com.mx/

Which is exactly that. I've actually found great specialists there, looking at their ratings.

Exactly. I dare to say that it was a matter of UX. The experience i got was that you arrived at a SO question from Google and the accepted answer was from years ago and irrelevant at the present time.

They did a quick patch by letting you sort answers by some attribute, but darn, that's low effort product/ux dev. What did those teams do in 10 years??

Namecoin has had all the DNS issues fixed since 2011. It is one of the few real and useful applications of bitcoin based technology.

Somehow it never got too the attention it deserved.

It was also the first known "altcoin"

Namecoin sounds very promising, first time hearing about it.

The problem US has always had with Latin America is that it's population likes a Socialist flavour of Democracy.

That doesn't rub well to the ruthless capitalist ideals of America. That's the reason why the US has destabilized the region again and again.

I'm more concerned for Greenland and Canada than for Venezuela.

I believe regarding greenland the statement "we have to have it" was made by the US dictatorial leadership. Rather chilling.

See them in the Google Graveyard most likely. This is one of those G experiments for which I wouldn't invest 5 minutes of my time building something, knowing it will surely be "sunsetted" in a short time.