Personally, I’d really like the option of running LLMs locally, but the hardware requirements make it hard. Small models run okay on CPU or low-end GPUs, but anything approaching the complexity and usefulness of GPT4 or DeepSeek requires a hefty GPU setup. Considering how much even old hardware like the P40 has gone up in price, it’s hard to justify the cost.

What’s the deal with OpenAI and xAI? Apparently he is no longer on the board of OpenAI but is still a financial backer. Yet he’s also starting a company to compete directly with them. Why sabotage his own interests?

I don’t think this person’s point was that everyone needs to eat tofu instead of eggs, but instead that there are plenty of other options. Yeah, it sucks that food is becoming more expensive, but there are a lot of different food options to choose from.

For what it’s worth, I agree with you. I don’t consume meat, but I do eat products containing eggs. It just blows my mind that eggs are so important to people. If I could never eat eggs again, it would be akin to someone telling me “You can never use Tide detergent now. You have to use Gain.” Oh well, whatever. There are 1000 different options. The fact that this one particular dietary item is so important to people is just strange to me.

Overall, groceries have gone up significantly in price over the last few years. I don’t really get why eggs are what everyone is talking about, though. It seems like the public discourse right now is all about “Eggs cost too much!” and not “It costs too much to eat.” Why eggs? If eggs are too expensive, maybe eat something else?