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  • mkwt@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•America, exblain
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    5 days ago

    The current Lake Shore Limited route is 1,543 km. Doing that in 2.5 hours requires an average speed of 617 km/hr. At TGV top speeds of 320 km/hr it is a 4.8 hour trip.

    As far as I know, 600 km/hr requires the development of additional technology not in operational use in other countries.









  • There was one particular morning in 2014 when Google dropped articles from The Daily Stormer directly into the personalized news feed widget on my phone. I grew up in the South, so I know the ins and outs of racism there. This was completely different. It was wildly genocidal anti-Semitism; straight up Nazi shit. Right there on my phone and presented as news.

    That’s when I knew that something was seriously wrong.


  • What’s going to happen is:

    • The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
    • When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
    • Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
    • So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the “safety” card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.

    “You see, it’s just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI.”