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Yeah, I'd rather the community grows slower, but attracts sane people than having rapid growth of liberals with addled brains.

There are definitely a lot of really horrific scenarios that open up if the west keeps escalating. I don't think stuff like f16s is going to really make much of a difference though. The real escalation would be NATO countries getting directly involved. In particular, there's been talk of making a coalition with Poland and some Baltic countries that would be outside of NATO. However, once they're in trouble then there will be a lot of pressure for the rest of NATO to get involved.

On the other hand, there is continued discontent with the way the war is going in the west, and the economic situation in western countries continues to unravel. So, the west may be forced to pull out in the end. I imagine that democrats will not want to have the war hanging over them during the election, so they may decide that whatever political damage they suffer is best to absorb now.

Also agree that we may see a lot of regime change happening in Europe. Anti war parties are gaining popularity in a lot of countries, and as recession deepens support for current regimes will wither.

I certainly can't see Russia agreeing to any sort of a freeze though. That would simply allow NATO to rearm Ukraine and effectively brings things back to where they were before the war. Now that Russia has committed itself to the war, they will see it through to the end.

The best case scenario is likely for the west to implode economically so that the rest of the world can move on.

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Not sure if they've been doing this already, but yeah looks like they're trying to ramp that up. And interesting point regarding the military being full of white supremacists. I'm sure they're not going to be thrilled by this. And yeah, this is absolutely following the path of Rome in decline.

McCarthyism is back in vogue in Canada

I definitely agree, a lot of prominent politicians in the west have effectively staked their political careers on the success of the war. This makes it impossible for them to look for any sort of compromise. The concerning part here is that it could easily lead to NATO boots on the ground, and we're already seeing article being published calling for that. That would basically mean WW3.

Basically, it's a really good reminder of where the mainstream views are in the west right now.

Gonna keep an eye on this, and it looks like with new tricks like LoRA it's possible to get a locally running model to have comparable performance to ChatGPT, at least for narrower use cases. This is a pretty good overview of some of the better models currently available

https://medium.com/geekculture/list-of-open-sourced-fine-tuned-large-language-models-llm-8d95a2e0dc76

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Oh yeah I've noticed this as well, and the fact that people don't see this really underscores how fascist US is in practice.

They have a github repo here and saying they will publish the model itself in the near future. :)