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The Luddite revival is quite concerning to me.This rewriting of history, by supposed lefties, is just fucking insane.Luddites were not good people, not in any way. They hated the fact that lower-paid workers - people from the countryside - were moving to cities, and taking their jobs. They're fucking Reformers, One Nation, Republicans, AfD, whatever in the country you live.Yeh, employers were shit, but they didn't want better working conditions. Nope, just to destroy the machines so poor people couldn't make cheaper fabric than them.When you revive Luddites as some sort of heroic movement, you revive the same right wing populist shit we're dealing with right now#Luddites

@bhg @n_dimension Once we dissect the truly colossal power consumption involved in training these beasts, the staggering inefficiencies of the MAC operation == multiply and accumulate, the Really Big Story is how the indexers are address the power consumption:Algorithm efficiency is a big story right now: DeepSeek's V3 model reportedly cost just $5.576 million to train and used only around 2,000 chips, where competitors were using 16,000+. As one Rhodium Group analyst put it, DeepSeek "demonstrates that training high-performance models can take far less electricity than previously thought." The catch, as some researchers note, is that cheaper training may just unleash more demand overall: Jevon's Paradoxhttps://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/deepseek-ai-model-energy-power-demand