@nprofile1q...

I KNOW THIS ONE!

Its that malicious hacker named 4CHAN.

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So... This is my server admin, @nprofile1q..., asking this.

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/117010558642656575

Thanks to #AI boom, server, colo, and VPS's are getting stupid high price increases.

And yeah, I donate every month. That's cause $10/month is well worth having a good strong set of services in the fediverse.

And there's scale here too. From Jerry's pin, this is why the donation matters;:

1 - https://
infosec.exchange - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does not block threads.net)
2 - https://
relay.infosec.exchange - Activitypub relay
3 - https://
video.infosec.exchange - Peertube instance (like youtube)
4 - https://
infosec.press - WriteFreely blog*
5 - https://
pixel.infosec.exchange - Pixelfed instance (like instagram)
6 - https://
matrix.infosec.exchange - Synapse (with sliding sync) homeserver*
7 - https://
infosec.place - Akkoma instance (like mastodon)
8 - https://
infosec.town - iceshrimp instance (like mastodon)
9 - https://
infosec.pub - Lemmy instance (like reddit)
10 - https://
fedia.io - General interest mbin instance (also like reddit)
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meetups.infosec.exchange (mobilizon)
15 - https://
infosec.space - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does
block threads.net)
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convo.casa - Glitch-soc Mastodon instance
17 - https://
ioc.exchange - Glitch-soc mastodon instance

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Democrat states should "drain the Washington DC swamp" by withholding ALL tax dollars from all income and revenue and employment.

Republican states are already on significant welfare from Democrat states.

Literally, quit fucking playing their game.

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This is precisely why I'm not against LLMs.

LLMs are a proxy fight against end-stage capitalism and a coming to a technofeudalist society.

Being able to combine the worlds' knowledge into a massive array that can probabilistically answer known things is amazing indeed... Even if you know how it works. This is Leibniz' dream, of calculus of words.

Most of us lament the Library Of Alexandria's burning. An Open data LLM is like the largest free talking library, that uses calculus to provide predictive text.

But its not about advancement of humans. Corporate LLM token dealers are being used AS weapons against humans. Why? Cause LLMs have the appearance in solving wages - that part of capitalism that the owners are always looking to cheat.

And also, Marx was right, as was Ned Ludd. Its all about controlling the means of production. And in Ludd's time, he wasn't able to gain control, so he chose the second path- destruction. Soon after, that was a death penalty offense.

Are LLMs the final answer? Obviously not. They can't train themselves. They use waaaay too much energy in training and inference. The algorithms work, but are really terrible. (Studying chess algos is the similar path I see with LLMs)

But as a tool, they are useful, especially in fuzzy searches. But capitalists will capital, and try to destroy labor wherever they can.

Don't let tool hate misdirect the real actors are. It always has been capital. Always has.

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His copper STILL sucks!

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Ya know....... You could build this with a local LLM, a microphone, and a thermal printer, and a reallllly cagey prophetic one-liner 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I betcha you could charge $1 for this BWAHAHAHAHAHHH

BTW I'm not actually doing this.

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Whats funny is this isnt the first time Ive seen this phenomenon. I first saw it in 2007 when I turned pagan.

Its all about #tarot .

Some folks I met would do a reading on the dumbest of shit. "Should I do $mundane_action?" . They'd paralyze themselves with inaction until some external force gave them approval, and that was tarot.

Whether you believe or not is irrelevant. Not trying to proselytize. But this has plagued folks learning divination all the time, and newer ones are especially more weak to it.

Ive called it Divinatory Paralysis. I see the parallels with asking the talking slot machine in the same way.

https://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/a35140909/addicted-to-tarot-cards-essay/

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YEEEP and you didnt say the name of the phenomenon. Prolly cause its still too new.

Its the hope and promise of Jackpotting or Slot Machine and getting that exact right prompt and getting the answer out. And of course, @nprofile1q... has an article this exact name!

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-08-16-jackpot-salience-bias-2a696501bba7

Its similar to the Vegas eyes-glazed-over smoker/drinker pulling a 1 armed bandit. But it is paying for more tokens on the hope that the NEXT question is the right one. Or on local LLMs, its the waiting for the response to complete.

And that next tranche of tokens COULD BE IT!

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As much as the AI hating squad doesnt want to admit... but LLMs are good at associating information the dense matrix was trained on. Now, LLM companies and such basically grab everything they can. Its probably upwards of a few exabytes of data ingested.

Now, within that sea of information and references and links.... real humans have solved problems. The problems may be in their own domain with their own language. BUT a tool that can probabilisticly compare across all fields of knowledge can show orthogonal ways to advance.

Now, these LLMs are NOT making new knowledge. But they excel at connecting the bulk of humanity's writings. And many of the problems we have is of association and connection.

Your initial comment of "quantum leap in energy production" is interesting. The idea is that it's already solved, kinda. Probably on paper, and/or already ingested into LLMs. But nobody's put all the pieces together in that exact "best way". BUT that LLM can potentially do it.

As an aside, I think both the techbros and the ai haters are both grossly wrong. These things do have utility (unlike the haters' comments), but are wayyyyyy oversold as to their capacities and inherent uncorrectable errors (techbros).

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That is one of the ideas, is that the power problem is already solved with some random research. It was grabbed, scanned, and ingested.

And you're only 1 prompt away from that answer.

We've seen this with some Erdos problems already. The answer to solve was already made, and an LLM jigsawed the completed parts together.

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I've been through #Scamazon 's 5 pillars engineering "talks".

The resilience pillar is basically summed up as " pay double for what you need so you have hot standbys".

Of course, to do that, you need to use more #AWS proprietary crap (route53) and ALB's.

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Why are you anthropomorphising a tool that is comprised purely of billions of float numbers?

LLMs are not living.

https://www.clrn.org/how-does-science-define-life/

LLMs do exhibit high organization.

But these tools do not exhibit homeostasis, growth, metabolism, reproduction, response to stimuli, or evolution.

At best, these machines are Leibniz' dream of calculus with words. Complex calculus with billion-dimensional arrays, sure, but its still deterministic math.

Do again, why are you making the case for "slavery" and "slavemaster" for these things? Is my desktop a slave? How about my TV? Or refrigerator? Or perhaps my phone is a slave?

Claiming so devalues the real harms of real slavery still existing. USA 13th amendment still explicitly permits slavery, if a punishment for a crime. Islamic nations still routinely practice slavery. Illegal traffickers use sexual based slavery across the world, like Epstein etm.

But a LLM being your slave? No, this time, You're hallucinating.