Comment by x187463
10 hours ago
The difference is the open and self-hosted models are not far behind the closed models. You can't rugpull if you don't own the rug.
10 hours ago
The difference is the open and self-hosted models are not far behind the closed models. You can't rugpull if you don't own the rug.
Unless they manage regulatory capture and with this kind of money at stake I would not bet against that. It's going to get very ugly. Read up on transhumanism to see what the stakes are, they're playing for keeps here.
If it's open weight it doesn't really matter if there's regulatory capture, it'll be like piracy is currently.
Regulatory capture - I tried to bring this up in another comment of mine, but not much resonance.
I wondered if many a press article seen in media re security breaches and LLMs based hacks are not in part at least campaigns to legitimize regulation.
How would regulatory capture of LLM realistically look like? Do you have any ideas here?
Like this:
https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/19/us-bans-deepseek-federal-ag...
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> How would regulatory capture of LLM realistically look like? Do you have any ideas here?
Let's flip this around. What do you imagine the most likely form that regulatory capture crafted by the major LLM Manufacturers would be?
When rolling this question around in your head, remember that the US Congress gave the telephone companies that blatantly and knowingly violated FISA retroactive immunity for their crimes in the 2008 FISA Amendments Act. Congress will move mountains if the majority of its members are scared enough and/or see enough profit in something.
> Read up on transhumanism to see what the stakes are...
Eh. Transhumanism is very good. Every medical intervention that improves or consensually prolongs the life of a human is transhumanist. Our natural state is incredibly godawful. [0] The best future for humanity is one where one need not work, need not get sick, need not die... where all of the awful parts of life are optional.
What the TESCREAL cult is peddling is incredibly bad. They have folks believing that not only are they ushering in the arrival of Robot Jesus, that nearly any terrible thing done now to speed up the project is justifiable because it hastens Robot Jesus's arrival. In actuality, the only thing that's hastened is the accumulation of wealth of awful humans like Altman, Amodei, Huang, and many others.
The core tenant of Rationalism [1] is great. It's just a huge shame that so many of the folks who were attracted to the philosophy ended up being so bad at learning how to do the one thing it tries to get you to do.
[0] Remember that it wasn't that long ago that humans had a 50/50 chance of dying before the age of five!
[1] Your brain is really bad at thinking carefully. You have to train yourself to think carefully despite how shitty your brain is at it. You will inevitably fail at this, but that's no reason to stop trying to get better at it.
> ... one need not work, need not get sick, need not die[.]
One of these is not like the others.
> Your brain is really bad at thinking carefully. You have to train yourself to think carefully despite how shitty your brain is at it.
What is "you" in this scenario if not your brain?
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Yes, and communism is great too [1].
[1] in theory.
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