There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 7 months ago

There is a google docs form to fill out at the top of the ethos.io page ( I don't want to direct link it, not sure if it has identifiers in the URL?). Source: over 1 year ago

I hate pushing my opinion on folks (because I really do respect folks who want to be fully done and they're completely valid) but I really do think there should be at least some consideration to the waves or ethos.io proposals (or more due diligence since it seemed like Binance and a few other companies were involved). If FTX truly is the best deal fine, but I do think equity and our crypto being given back... Source: over 1 year ago

4) Voyager took multiple years to switch simple systems and was called out by ethos.io and former board director https://twitter.com/shingolavine/status/1574472263247634432. Source: almost 2 years ago

Shingo Lavine who's company Ethos.io (that was acquired by Voyager) made a statement on this as well: https://twitter.com/shingolavine/status/1573030726139727872 stating that that app remake and sharing revenue plan might work well with their Ethos.io plan / proposal here: https://cases.stretto.com/public/x193/11753/PLEADINGS/1175307292280000000006.pdf. Source: almost 2 years ago

And that ethos.io was not rebranded into VOyager. Voyager bought Ethos....2 very different scenarios. Source: over 2 years ago