Unlike their job, which is complex and nuanced.

I don’t think the person who wrote this does anything technical for a living. I think their job is some BS training shit show “we will teach you how to write prompts for LLMs” or something.

Yeah. Private trackers are always a bit weird with their invasive signup stuff. Not gonna defend them on that front. I guess they’re trying to ensure that you haven’t been banned previously. It’s daft but it’s they’re in charge I guess.

I will say though other private trackers seem to have a weird kiss-the-ring and beg forgiveness king of reverence for mods in their forums, but that doesn’t seem to be a thing at MAM thank fuck. It’s kinda sickening the weird god-status mods have in some trackers.

Maintaining a ratio at MAM is a whole different game to trackers that host movies and TV. You can’t ratio-farm with the same methods. The trick is to just continue seeding things indefinitely. Even if you’re not uploading and earning any ratio you still get bonus points and can convert them to upload credit.

It’s true that if you only download things occasionally there’s better alternatives - but that’s ever the case with private trackers of any kind.

the title says non-electronic, so you’re dead in the water really.

Anyhoo, if I were living in an apocalypse and had a laptop, would I prefer that it had wikipedia or an LLM?

It really depends on accuracy of the information it’s outputting versus the storage requirements of the model, compared to the storage requirements of a wikipedia dump.

Regardless, it’s kinda comical to imagine a non-technological society being able to consult one of our LLMs without any understanding of technology generally. Like you could ask it to describe the chemical makeup of the star Proxima Centauri and it would give you a response that would sound absolutely infallible and you would have no way to validate it - it would seem to have god-like prescience. Then you could ask it something mundane and it either lies or tells you it’s unable to answer.

Just having one of those moments where the sheer nutty-ness of this whole shit show is overwhelming.

These people are simultaneously:

• covering up a ring of pedophile rapist murderers
• engaging in obscene levels of corruption, billions of dollars in the open
• imposing taxes on America’s poorest
• actively supporting genocide
• taking the moral high ground by creating a theocracy

I know we’re all living with these thoughts every day but every now and again I just want to scream about it.

I kinda wonder what this person thinks people with jobs actually do all day.

Just kinda goof around, make doodles in your sketch book, you know… engineer stuff.

Information doesn’t “want to be free” the companies that want my personal habits and interests have invested a whole lot of effort in acquiring it.

Theres loads of ways to manage your spending without a budget, more effective for most people too.

Ok dweeb, by all means continue calling coffee a narcotic.

Anything you regularly enjoy becomes an emotional support.

Narcotics are opioids or other downers.

Caffeine is obviously psychoactive but is not a narcotic.

Sorry im struggling to understand whatever points youre trying to make.

No one cares or will even notice your lack of participation.

Some seeders have amazing infrastructure and can seed in an hour what would take you a year on a residential connection.

This is not an “if everyone did that” problem because not everyone has limited residential bandwidth.

If youre worried about moral obligations adopt a few torrents with very low numbers of seeders to ensure they dont die.

Alternatively, you could rent a seed box for a month and upload 5 years worth.

In my opinion categorizing someone as categorically bad is reductive, lazy thinking.

I’m not saying you need to like pedophile rapists and murderous colonizers.

Merely that going through life categorizing the every day people you meet as good or bad is reductive, lazy thinking and frankly - the basis of undesirable cognitive habits like racism and prejudice.

The people you interact with each day are complex individuals with just as much going on internally as you do. None of them think of themselves as “bad”.

Medication.

Ive used myanonamous for years, its a private torrent tracker. Obviously needs sign up though sorry.

Languagetool ?

Yep.

I want to provide for my wife and kids. Its my purpose and I find it fulfilling.

The fundamental attribution error explains why we perceive people to be good or bad.

I know you said to just downvote, but I really strongly believe the world would be a much better place if people tried to understand the motivations of others, rather than trying to categorise them as good or bad people.

I think im “addicted” to all of these things.

Although im not a complainer.

Also try not to be an asshole but im sure someone thinks i am.

Yeah, there’s a lot to good EVOO.

Here i wouldnt really trust anything I can get from the supermarket, and certainly not anything imported.

The health benefits diminish significantly over time.

So the “best before” date might be 2 years, but if you want the health benefits then every month counts. Also the time spent in contact with air.