This is why the future is local LLMs, not centralized, censored commercial Nanny-AIs.

I actually had Claude tell me this one time earlier in the year... right after it had just written a story in the style of the same author. So they've been trying to make it work for some time but clearly taken a while.

It could come with a headband with a large flashing orange light on top which turns on whenever the camera is running.

Yes. The old Boomercon Right actually believed in free speech, equality and democracy. The New Right consider them some of the dumbest ideas ever because we've now seen that they're enough to destroy civilization in a few decades.

So right now the Boomer Republicans are the only thing preventing the right from throwing the left into camps. As soon as those are gone it will be full on white male identity politics and no mercy for the woke left.

The left don't actually believe this because otherwise they'd be doing everything possible to appease the right, but it's true.

If you can't learn to do something well without "education", how did anyone ever learn how to do something well enough to "educate" others?

Don't forget that kids are being told their future is just typing prompts into AI models and getting results out that they send off without understanding them. These kids are just training for their future career.

I believe it's more that when you fly twice a week there's no need to make reservations years in advance. But yes, if Starship is cheaper and as reliable by that point then Falcon 9 may only be used for things that require it (e.g. for NASA "man rating").

You forgot: 2a - cripple the model so it refuses to do what you tell it to do while Chinese open-source models don't give a sh*t about Muh Safety.

> Of course the law matters. What is that supposed to mean?

Have you even looked at legal decisions in the last few years? Or the blatantly illegal actions of big corporations which have been ignored for decades?

It's cute that you think the law still matters.

> IP theft and subsidies are how they cheat.

You mean IP theft like scraping the Internet, downloading masses of illegal copies of books, feeding it into your algorithm and then claiming to own it?

"No company using open weight models may do business with the US government, because Security."

Again, the Merchant Caste are cowards and would immediately drop any use of unapproved AI rather than lose that business.

This new attitude to LLMs is the modern equivalent of banning export of crypto with keys over 40 bits long. That simply encouraged foreigners to start up crypto companies which could sell 128+ bit encryption to businesses all around the world.

The more censored American LLMs become the more people and businesses will use non-American LLMs. Because America isn't the only place that has smart people and given China's average IQ is supposedly a few points higher and they have far more people odds are they have far more smart people than us.

> What lunacy is this? It never was.

People have been doing it for decades. Half the open-source software available today will go and download three hundred dependencies from the Internet when you first run it.

That used to be safe so long as you didn't install weird software from weird places which would inevitably be full of malware. Now that low-trust people are running big business, you can't install it from them either.

It's simply no longer possible to randomly install software from the Internet because most of it will be malware, even if it comes through Windows Update.

Last I looked adding a Z80 to your custom chip design was pretty much free so it's highly likely that low-end embedded systems will be using them for many years to come. Of course they may farm out the programming work to LLMs since it's a simple processor which can't run a lot of lines of code.