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Was bound to happen eventually. They're going to try to make open models illegal now.
My opinions are that its fine to make llm projects that threaten corporations who rely on saas. Doesn't mean im going to use them or that they're any good, but I want to see these companies who are firing all their employees and throwing all their money at ai to get scourned. Will build more distrust between the corpos too.
And just to be clear its okay when they steal literally the entire world's knowledge base. But as soon as adobe and Microsoft see a 2% drop in profit all the sudden everyone's a terrorist, or its the worst thing to happen ever. I hate ai but I'll root for my enemy when he's destroying one of my original enemies, can't wait for these companies to burn. I'd go back to the stone ages if I knew elon, Sam Altmann, etc where all dead.
Going back to 80's tech where most things were still analog should do it. Pen and paper, fax machines, analog tape and vynil records
I think we can realistically live in a happy medium with modern goodies. I do like apsects of analog and prefer it in many applications over digital. And its hard to say that in general because the first place my mind goes to is sensors for pi/esps, and your first thought is older analog tech. Analog sensors just seem more straight forward and it feels better to know you can just do shit without a computer in the way sometimes.
Like we sent people to the moon on kilobites of data, yet Microsoft windows needs 16 gigs of ram as a min req so copiolt can take screen shots every 30 seconds. Analog components just work on their own, require less power, and can just become its own system without a whole digital computer. Maybe instead of wifi bases lights and a whole home assistant server you just get a old fassion photoresistor and some clap sensors.
Its really as simple as just buying things that don't need access to the internet or some dumb app just because the product costs less. I think in theory we could exist in a world where there's a better happy medium where every devices doesn't have to also be a android smart phone so that it can also spy on you and sell your data to ai and government.
But also at the same time I am stubborn enough where I will drag us down into the dark ages if it meant if the offer magically was presented to me. If you put two buttons infront of me I would press the dark ages button so fast.
Creating a shittiness free tech ecosystem is pretty straightforward, the question is where do you get the money to do so without the expectation of ever increasing profit.
You don't have to worry about that if you first remove the expectation of ever increasing profit, for example by widespread use of the guillotine, see.
I'd just start with fitting every tech mba with one of those collars that explode
Filofax, yes or no?
I would pay ANY price for this.