This is why users need to have an american router, chinese router, and russian router, all wired in series. That way no one spy branch has full backdoor access through the chain ;-)
How would that work? Backdoors usually go the other way: malware calls home. How can the first router in the chain differentiate TLS backdoor traffic from the 3rd router (the one with access to your LAN) from legitimate traffic from LAN?
The risks and challenges section is truly of our time:
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Risks & Challenges
Global instability is the most significant risk to delivery. The design itself is vetted and working, and the supply chain is set up to pump out chips - just need to know how many to build. The following outcomes could greatly impact the timing of delivery:
* A world war, or a conflict in the East Asia region.
* Additional sanctions or tariffs on components originating from our suppliers.
* AI driving shortages in the supply chain. In particular, chip probe time is scarce; if AI providers preemptively buy out chip probe capacity, it could delay production schedules for months, even years.
* Natural disasters such as earthquakes hitting the fab cluster in Hsinchu
* A civil war in the United States would lead to unpredictable consequences in the supply chain
* A collapse of the US dollar between now and fulfillment would reduce the value of the funds raised, and thus make us unable to pay vendors and fulfill our obligations. In this case we would do a best-effort to fulfill the campaign but a devaluation event of greater than 25% on the USD within the intervening months would likely impact our ability to fill orders.
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Large scale failure of the status quo for the common man. Between free trade agreements, de-industrialization, recurring perpetual wars, and failed social policies that punish working class people. People no longer believed in the status quo.
Always getting downvoted for typing the inconvenient truth people don't want to read and or acknowledge. This website is just as bad as reddit in terms of enabling censoring of opinions that don't support the popular narrative (like America being a democratic nation where the people elect the president).
We elected a narcissistic millionaire who bankrupted every company he was ever in charge of. His primary concern while in office was becoming a billionaire, rewarding the Russians that bailed him out of several of those bankruptcies, and trying to punish anyone he felt wronged him.
When the goal is to burn it down and you put people in charge who actively want to burn it down, they can. See: project 2025.
The status quo wasn't great for the ordinary people and the only offramp they had was clown world. Brexit should have been a hard lesson proving the people will vote against their own interest if they believe they are also voting for something harmful to the regime they despise.
People weren't voting against their own interest. They are voting against a system which they do not believe worked for them. Saying people vote against their own interest is saying that they aught to just shut up and listen. If you propose policy X and say it will be good for people, and they vote against X, then that is a moment of self-reflection on why people think X is not good for them. That attitude is exactly why people despise the regime above them.
I think GDPR is a good example of why it doesn't really work in practice.
I think the fines and enforcement have been a generally good balance to the status quo in the USA.
But- in practice, is your data materially used differently than in the USA?
The problem is that no one is abandoning facebook, instagram or youtube and that data is being used in the exact same way as it is in the USA- to sell you things and track you across the web. Technically there are more barriers to getting and using that data, but I would argue that it's not a blocker, just an inconvenience to those using that data- it just makes the targeting etc. 10% less accurate. The whole system still runs the exact same way.
And, to make it look like it seem like it works now everyone has to deal with these dumb popups that don't mean anything.
Even with that setup I have unfortunately had a bad experience just using Qwen2.5-27B. I asked it once to take a large PDF of a book and find and quote all instances which mentioned food. After churning for a long time it eventually gave me several interesting excerpts, only one of which was real and the rest were hallucinations/confabulations.
I hope we can get to the point where even a small distilled model at the 7B-30B level avoids hallucinating.
Fellow survivor on a bicycle which powers a lightbulb by which you can read the microfiche. Voila.
For anyone who never watched the original Soylent Green movie, it's worth a rewatch because it actually shows a future where people are having to make do without a power grid in cities, by doing things like riding a stationary bike hooked up to a generator to power their TV or radio long enough to get some news.
According to the nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, these LLMs will be able to talk to each other and self-train in the same way that AlphaGo started playing games against itself to be able to surpass all human experts, on who's games it had originally been trained and therefore originally been restricted to their ability. This is how LLMs will surpass human knowledge rather than being limited to a statistical average from human generated training data.
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