ravenhappy

Like a station wagon barreling down the highway...

With the advent of enormous models such as R1, do any of you want me to download a model for you, and ship it to you on a storage device?

Having a gigabit connection at my home, I'm lucky enough to be able to download any model that piques interest. I know from experience that this is not the case for everyone.

I'm an established eBay seller since 2000(!), and I can send you the model of your choice, on the device of your choice, by snail mail. Like the car full of hard drives barreling down the highway, except in a well-packaged box, delivered to your doorstep by the courier of your choice.

The way I see this working is I share my ebay account, we establish trust..., you tell me which model, or probably which models you want, I git lfs them (from huggingface or wherever) onto a storage device that you send me, or that I purchase for you, and then I mail the model(s) to you via your preferred postal method, including to international addresses.

Can I help you get your hands on DeepSeek R1 or any other model, by snail mail?

A beloved family member is convinced that a terrible idea that they have found online is real and true. They believe they have evidence in the sense of providing links to supportive online content. I have been trying to connect with them, and find a way to help them. Their current state is distraught and anxious. Just now I was thinking that maybe helping them to understand that anything online is suspect, "take it with a grain of salt!", which is something I learned early, last millennium, would be helpful. I specifically and definitely(!) remember hearing about the dead internet theory in 2012, yet, I can't find any good references from then! I've googled, archive.org'd (unskillfully), and even thought to check Yandex, but balked at enabling js. Here's my question: can anyone here provide an origin or references for the "Dead Internet" theory? (That predate 2016, which is when Wikipedia says the idea occurred)