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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm asking everyone, please don't use compute as a noun. That's the language of the wannabe enslavers.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago*

    I think that ship has sailed, much the way we use google as a verb for websearch even though Google Search has long lost the honor of being genericized. (I still intentionally use websearch)

    LLM generative processing as a service (id est, selling compute) is a failing business model at least for common private use cases. The only way the buildout makes sense is to sell it to governments at gouging prices. And we're in a sorry state when the economy is propped up on government contracts in the service of authoritarian regimes.

    It'd be a bit better if compute was being used to facilitate libraries and freight, but instead its surveillance and armies.

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