Alice Valiant

@alice.strange.domains

technomancer, nyc. 5'6" 👁️🏳️‍⚧️ can be trusted with knowledge writings @ https://strange.domains

current feelings around AI: the CEOs shoveling slop into everything should be in jail but the guys spending upwards of $60,000 on elaborate, janky home rigs to run local models for no reason other than to see if it works are engaging in a long and semi-honorable tradition of computer toucher shit

Reddit post from r/localllama of a user "Setting up of a 16xGB10 (DGX Spark) cluster

Preparing this to be able to run locally frontier level open models.

It's 16 boxes stacked around a widescreen monitor. There is no art on the walls

going to cis events is crazy bc the average cis person has so little Charisma compared to the median tranny. like damn y’all live like this? no wonder u gotta enact mass discrimination against my people

surveillance-shaped systems can be useful but unfortunately the powerful cannot be trusted under any circumstances with this sort of thing. i don't think there's an ethical way to make money off of Panopticons

why do agents edit files in galaxy brain ways. i see you busting out an inline python program what the fuck are you doing. why is this sed so long. god help you if you tell it about awk

everyone talks about “oh when is the first AI smart house gonna kill someone” ok well when will the first AI smart house bring a girl to orgasm? has it already happened?? is there evidence,