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No
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Ah, yes, sorry. No, he does not have a point. A data center is not more "effective" nor in fact economical or sensible. Even logically, rationally, ethically, scientifically.. like, I refute his point, in its entirety. Mostly because i'm not a hypercapitalist but also because compute pooling seriously is not a good idea to begin with. It's fragile. It's insecure. Dangerous in so many ways. If people do not fight against cloud control, they will eat up our final rights and consume entire humans. I don't like megacorp entities and the way they listen with hidden microphones and fingerprint us, just for perverse sharing as a literal commodity, with no shame because a demonic autonomous system cannot feel. It can only grow. I just meant no to that.
Thanks for sharing.
In that sense, I like the idea brought by one of the commenters to make BOINC-like decentralized computing network that would utilize idle hardware on people's computers. This can be tailored for LLMs, too.
This way, everyone could access the technology without having to pay billionaires and without all that datacenter buildout, and the people-owned hardware would be put to good use.