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the first point is obvious. The idea thatโs what โwokeโ isโฆ Well, I guess it is nowadaysโฆ Back in the day, woke meant something. And the ideals behind it are good, but the only people left using the term are haters, if you talk to the people the companies copy and the haters hate, they hate the companies! No one likes it, but it sells, because the normal people who donโt hate everything see it and think โeh, probably better than the alternative, and an adโs an adโ.
Itโs obviously bc we were young, I mean, people have always been like this. But, at that point in time, there was less hate, because most of the ideals had only been around a bit. But, itโs been near 30 years of modern liberalism, and a decade of modern right populism. And there was an insurrection. And the internet throws everyone in the middle of everything.
Maybe. Itโs kinda possible the forum takes a stance. For example, if it were to say โobviously [word that starts with n and ends in azi]'s are badโ thatโs apolitical. If i said โspecies that donโt care for one another cannot progress to awakening, so empathy is goodโ thatโs also apolitical. Itโs possible to lock in against something obviously wrong. It could be illegal to talk about politics, but the fact that โX is bad and stuffโ could be allowed, as itโs apolitical if you arenโt a [word I already mentioned].
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We are not even sure if the forum community could take the change of allowing politics without a significant part of the users abandoning the forum.
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This doesnโt look just like โhomeless proofingโ, it looks like โeveryone proofingโ
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Maybe birds will use it for making nests?
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That place is far too low for nestmaking.
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humanity continues to baffle me with how idiotic its despise of others can be
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Iโm willing to bet had the forum allowed political discussions, one wouldโve sprouted right here.
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I meanโฆ this is a political statement that was made, but everyone agreed. No argument, no โpolitics.โ Yay?
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Quote of the day, @TeaKing!
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And perhaps for times further and wider than just a singlet dayโฆ
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If everyone agrees, it wouldnโt be removed. But also, it wouldnโt be fun, so thereโs no reason to say it in the first place. Validation is boring.
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As per the rules, all and any political discussions should be removed, but itโs been seen many times now that the rules donโt always come into playโฆ
Scalping GPUs should be made illegal everywhere. Honestly, itโs not even hard to prevent some of the scalping. Putting a CAPTCHA should deter at least the laziest scalpers who donโt make proper AI bots instead of just bots. Putting a limit of 1 GPU per credit card per week should also help. Are store owners lazy or something?
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Will this finally be the nail to shatter the bubble?
I wishโฆ not likely. I think the economy is just going to drag down for a while, but thatโs just my ppersonal prediction. The main reason I think the bubble wonโt shadder is just because OpenAI is basically shown as failures with nothing behind the eyes, every other company naming stuff the "Product we already had WITH AI"has no reason to stop. Nvidia in particular has a lot of reason to sell AI cards to people wanting to fine-tune the censorship out of deepseek (I ran one of the largest models that would fit in my moderate 64 gigs of ram and tricked it into explaining the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the censorship is nothing, the risk of using it is that many will just use the app deepseek made, which is hosted on the other side of a firewall to my knowledge), and Nvidia especially needs DLSS to sell GPUs because they forgot how to do innovation, and thereโs no reason to stop calling DLSS AI. AI is gonna stick around, but hopefully itโll stop growing, and hopefully soon venture capital firms will start wondering why they have to invest in western companies asking for trillions rather than eastern companies asking for a few million, and the tide will turn on newer, bigger, mega LLMs.
Scalping should be illegal. Period. Arbitrage to bring the prices of two disconnected economies in line makes sense, but when demand simply outpaces supply and you are adding no value to the economy (just making consumers suffer), you shouldnโt get to. However, who do you think pays off our lawmakers? The multimillionaires and billionaires who play jump rope with the fine line between arbitrage and scalping. The real villains here are people who scalp during disasters, like LA landords.
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So the bubble is adapting if not evolvingโฆ interesting.
Whatโre your specs, Deathwake?
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Wasnโt there a computer-stats sharing thread thing once?
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