Comment by Yokolos
1 day ago
Even as somebody who uses AI every day and has integrated it in useful ways, I don't see how the rise of the AI industry can be anything other than terrifying. It signals the rise of a new feudal system. Couple that with the rolling back of democracy across the globe and growing trend of authoritarianism, even in Europe, and I just can't be excited. In Germany particularly, it feels like every week there's some new idea to increase surveillance and control over the populace while the AfD is knocking on the door.
Compared to what though? When was this golden age when things were not scary or turbulent?
If you read about life in the 19th century, it was more turbulent than today with change.
We seem to frame these debates against some random week in spring 2017 that if it ever existed at all, was extremely fleeting.
I think the bigger issue is that social media doesn't exactly provide historical context. If anything it provides a type of ahistoric , hysterical context to the present moment.
Then if you have no social media, everyone feels more and more like a hysterical lunatic living in a reality that doesn't exist if you just go outside and put the phone away for 5 minutes.
Open source intellectual power though. The promise of the personal computer.
Whats personal about a datacenter?
You could have said the same thing about mainframes in the past? I am talking about smaller open source models not huge ones that need spaceships to run.
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The fact is, open source was a solution to a different problem: closed source. Open source is not a panacea that will solve everything.