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Comment by dofm

1 day ago

> Perhaps the most interesting thing is that RISC-V shows just how ISA agnostic people are

To the extent that Raspberry Pi shipped a microcontroller that can literally be either RISC-V or ARM (indeed, one of each at the same time I think?)

RISC-V, it seems to me, lives in that cognitive space occupied by things like: open source, open weights, C, HTML, ethernet, Greggs sausage rolls and VHS.

Far from optimal, obviously flawed, and could change human society for the better. Ubiquity is inevitable.

What’s far from optimal about open source? Open source seems like a window into another universe, which is just lightly better than ours: people just working on problems and sharing solutions, because humans are basically good social creatures that enjoy solving problems. To the extent to which there are issues like the difficulty of funding open source projects: our society is wrong, not open source.