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Nah, local LLMs are easily in the range of transcribe/summarize. I bet you could do that nicely with llama 8B without even needing a gpu.

For what it’s worth, Ocarina of Time Link ended up ditching that stupid blue suit in Majora’s Mask, instead opting to possess the body of a dead Zora. Infinitely cooler.

He deserved it, wearing blue like that.

Ironically pirating is the only way you can actually own (instead of license) software these days.

It might get expensive fast if their Google Play Services app is affected by the ruling.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s…

So, you’ve always been able to sideload apps on Android, Google is just using unfair practices to stop other people’s app stores from being popular.

When does this ruling affect Apple, who actually has a monopoly on their store?

Yeah totally agree. The general population almost never wants to go to war - the plutocrats do.

Once we take care of our own corrupt governance I suspect wars will rapidly disappear, and then weapons will likewise disappear.

Well Switzerland does obsessively stay neutral, which is badass… Sadly that is mostly an anomaly in the world right now. I’d love for everyone to be the same, but I don’t think it’s likely - good luck convincing the US, Russia, or China to be neutral.

Not sure what you mean by the others. Afghanistan has been destabilized repeatedly by a bunch of big nations with big weapons, and they couldn’t do much about it. That fairly well strengthens my point again - the only nations whose rights are respected are the ones with the biggest guns, and everyone else gets trampled by them.

Heck, Africa is also embroiled in proxy wars caused in part (mostly? It’s complicated) by big, militarized nations.

I think very few people would call militarization good. In fact I’d call it explicitly evil. I would also label it as necessary in the modern world dynamic. I desperately hope that people learn to respect each other so we have the option of demilitarization.

Fair enough, but there’s still far too much conflict to begin demilitarization at this point in time. What the world can mostly agree on is to limit itself to being destroyed 55 times over by nuclear weapons (by UN estimates). And that’s in a world where nobody has actually used nuclear weapons (offensively) in 90 years.

These kinds of things take so many generations because the fundamental conflict between humans is not resolved. If there had been no Cold War, maybe we would have totally denuclearized by now, but I still doubt it.

Obviously it’s enabled by weapons. But that strengthens my point further - the nation who reduces their weapons first loses.

When has a nation completely set down their weapons, and what was the effect? One obvious case that comes to mind is Ukraine, who fully denuclearized. Ever since that moment they have repeatedly been invaded by Russia (the nation who maintained the weapons).

What you suggest is asking for this to repeat over and over again. The only truly viable path to eradicating war, is to first eradicate the problems that cause war, then to abolish weapons.

If you have factual evidence that your method works, please present it. I shared hard evidence of my perspective.

I disagree. War isn’t caused by weapons. It’s caused by racism, religious strife, economic hardship, natural resource exploitation, and more. Those need fixed before anyone will be willing to put away their weapons.

I don’t think I’m smart enough to solve “world peace” lol.

Unfortunately this is basic game theory, so the “smart” thing is to have the weapons, but avoid war.

Once we’ve grown past war, we can disarm, but it couldn’t happen in the opposite order.

Whoever bans them will be at a disadvantage militarily. They will never be banned for this one reason alone.

Basically the same amount of weight as the headline.

Yeah it couldn’t happen overnight. I feel like ad blocking is a better solution to invest in up until that point however. We don’t need to enable advertisers.

There’s no reason why open source software should cater to advertisers.

Advertising is a plague on humanity. If we have to rethink our digital economics to fix it, then so be it.

I think we SHOULD train AI on all our bodily excretions. How else will it learn to understand the human condition?

PNG and JPEG aren’t good enough, to be honest. If you run a content heavy site, you can see something like a 30-70% decrease in bandwidth usage by using WebP.