Rimworld was another shining example. Its actual early access was a forum release, the Steam EA was polishing.

That being said I have a dead EA or two in my library. Starforge comes to mind…

My level of worry hasn’t lowered in years…

But honestly? Low on the totem pole. Even with Trumpy governments.

Things like engagement optimized social media warping people’s minds for profit, the internet outside of apps dying before our eyes, Sam Altman/OpenAI trying to squelch open source generative models so we’re dependent on their Earth burning plans, blatant, open collusion with the govt, everything turning into echo chambers… There are just too many disasters for me to even worry about the government spying on me.

If I lived in China or Russia, the story would be different. I know, I know. But even now, I’m confident I can given the U.S. president the middle finger in my country, but I’d really be more scared for my life in more authoritarian strongman regions.

Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

Almost all of Qwen 2.5 is Apache 2.0, SOTA for the size, and frankly obsoletes many bigger API models.

These days, there are amazing “middle sized” models like Qwen 14B, InternLM 20B and Mistral/Codestral 22B that are such a massive step over 7B-9B ones you can kinda run on CPU. And there are even 7Bs that support a really long context now.

IMO its worth reaching for >6GB of VRAM if LLM running is a consideration at all.

I am not a fan of CPU offloading because I like long context, 32K+. And that absolutely chugs if you even offload a layer or two.

For local LLM hosting, basically you want exllama, llama.cpp (and derivatives) and vllm, and rocm support for all of them is just fine. It’s absolutely worth having a 24GB AMD card over a 16GB Nvidia one, if that’s the choice.

The big sticking point I’m not sure about is flash attention for exllama/vllm, but I believe the triton branch of flash attention works fine with AMD GPUs now.

Basically the only thing that matters for LLM hosting is VRAM capacity. Hence AMD GPUs can be OK for LLM running, especially if a used 3090/P40 isn’t an option for you. It works fine, and the 7900/6700 are like the only sanely priced 24GB/16GB cards out there.

I have a 3090, and it’s still a giant pain with wayland, so much that I use my AMD IGP for display output and Nvidia still somehow breaks things. Hence I just do all my gaming in Windows TBH.

CPU doesn’t matter for llm running, cheap out with a 12600K, 5600, 5700x3d or whatever. And the single-ccd x3d chips are still king for gaming AFAIK.

I hate turn based combat too, but it was super enjoyable in coop. And it’s quite good for being turn based.

It’s also real-time outside of combat, FYI.

For solo, I’d probably get the mod that automates your companions, and reduce the difficulty to your taste to compensate.

It should be the first, no question.

Still an understatement, it deserves it and more.

I don’t even like turned based games. I don’t like most high fantasy. But holy moly, what a ride BG3 is.

I’m just gonna be pissed of their mixed support of modding (due to wotc) kills the modding community. If Skyrim and Rimworld can have a whole universe of fan content, BG3 should too.

It’s crazy that Twitter has such an outsized influence on the public, and I think it’s because news outlets amplify it so much.

It doesn’t have that many active users. And news rarely covers other platforms when something makes a lot of noise and reaches many eyeballs.

Reddit still has niches that (unfortunately) exist nowhere else, probably won’t exist anywhere else soon due to the need for foot traffic, and are tolerable as long as old.reddit.com stays up.

And it’s the lesser evil over Discord.

Lemmy is of course 1000x better, but it doesn’t matter if your niche there is a ghost town.

Some places on a “budget” like Ao3 just rate limit hard.

I don’t like that solution at all though.

That’s what I figured, but I am envisioning a future where lemmy is huge and the network of admins is quite sizable.

I guess that doesn’t change much?

Would lemmy instances do this?

I know they can’t afford to now, but hypothetically? A lot of people here don’t seem to like data scraping for AI.

I really wonder what would happen if, say, Taylor Swift or MrBeast actually ran for president.

Who could compete with that? You can say the parties would try to oust them, but look how that worked out for Trump, and he had far less name recognition back then.

Ask it questions about itself, like when its data cutoff is and what model it is.

It’d be really hilarious if it’s just chatGPT. “Local” llms are very unreliable about this, but sometimes they give you hints that they aren’t OpenAI.

A lot of people suck in the real world.

Agreed, this just looks like a miss.

Who knows why, but it doesn’t seem like for-profit Game of Thrones.