Even if it is an answer, is your suggestion to wait for a theoretical solution that hasn't appeared so far and doesn't seem to be on the horizon, to the exclusion of doing anything else?

Idealism isn't strengthening your argument.

How about doing multiple things, you know, just in case, on the very small (^minuscule,^ ^really^) off-chance you happen to be incorrect or even not fully correct ?^[As unlikely as that scenario is , i mean]

Personally I see LLMs as a tool like any other. You can use it to mass produce low quality slop, just as you can use it to help you produce a higher quality output.

I agree with this in principle, but I'd argue that it's more like an industrial table saw than a hand saw.

Meaning the potential for damage is much greater with this particular tool (for various reasons) which means that it need proper training and experience, safeguards, maintenance and fail-safes to be used effectively (without doing yourself or others damage).

The potential damage of using this tool is a bit less immediate and obvious than an industrial table saw however, which means you should be extra careful.

5g microchipped psuedo-butter, outstanding.

and before you bring out the “but everyone i know all says the same”, that’s still anecdotal, it’s what anecdotal means.

"We have a and everyone I’ve spoken to that tried the reports "

Again, i'm not doubting your understanding the experience of you or your acquaintances, i'm saying its anecdotal, a vanishingly small sample size and not necessarily indicative of a general position.

I think you have me mistaken for someone else.

You don't need to prove anything, and judging by the replies so far I wouldn't expect any level of good faith discourse so no need to worry about my expectations.

And somebody who includes health in their metric of enjoyment will have a different threshold

Indeed, but my comment was a reply to another poster who was implying a specific metric.

I was just trying to point out that metric isn't the same for everyone, even a composite metric will differ person to person

I mean, going by wikipedia the latest (desktop) ryzen cpu released was the 9950X3D...i'd personally tag that as powerful.

everybody has their subjective scale of power i suppose.

You’re never going to get an honest answer to this question,

The honest answer was in the post they were originally replying to.

I will never tolerate ads. I will give up YouTube before I watch ads.

Youtube isn't an existential need.

Ad's or bust isn't a real dichotomy.

Here's another honest suggestion, drop ~~free~~ ad supported Youtube as a product and go full premium.

It'd significantly reduce infrastructure costs and they'd be able to fund it with subscription monies.

edit: used the wrong quote at the start

Damn, all but 2.

Nearly had me a bingo, oh well.

They could just be deeply confused about how a conversation generally works?

I don’t think there’s any data Microsoft can get through you using edge that they can’t also get just by controlling your OS

I'd put mid-level money on that not being true. There are a lot of things going on in a browser, a lot of which aren't particularly easy to access from the outside.

Not to say it isn't possible.

There are valid reasons to use windows and if you’ve gotta use it anyway they’ve already got your data from the start

To a degree yes, but assuming they aren't pulling nefarious shit in the background, there are in theory many things you can turn off or somewhat neutralise using the options in the OS to reduce the level of data collection.

They are slowly removing those options but they still exist for now.

Again, i fully understand people not wanting to go to the trouble to achieve a goal they don't care about, but that isn't the same as there being nothing you can do if you wish to.