You can't put the genie back in the bottle 🤡
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@jenniferplusplus How are they removing access to the old machines?
@matt @jenniferplusplus I assume this is a commentary on the increasing lockdown of devices, attestation, etc. especially in the mobile sector and especially for lower end consumer devices. What Cory Doctorow might call 'the war on general purpose computing'.
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@joshuaelliott @jenniferplusplus The "garden rake" effect of GenAI technologies is something to behold. I literally cannot use LLMs in particular for serious computer science applications without engaging in the same prompt/context/temperature adjustment boondoggles, even if I do, I'm up against proprietary system prompting and token burn, and it's a distraction from my actual work. I could just pivot to deep learning but down that road leads future serfdom.
@joshuaelliott @jenniferplusplus The problem of knowledge work vs public policy is convincing the body politic: "It's hard for people who have had, let's say 20 or more years of schooling to understand that there are people out there who think that
education is a lie." -- @mattsheffield -
You can't put the genie back in the bottle
Meanwhile, the genie is only kept out of the bottle by the force of literally the entirety of the world's available investment capital
@jenniferplusplus Everybody, read this thread ^^^
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@slowenough @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga I love the idea of neighborhood IT co-ops. Fo any actually exist? Are there resources to help set this sort of thing up?
@RedFacedUakari
> I love the idea of neighborhood ITI wish but neighborhood barely works for social exchange and common good, so "IT", don't hold your breath.
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@jenniferplusplus @cairobraga Apple has run out of most Mac Studio and Mini models because there are so many people who understand this, and do not wish to be subservient to the cloud any longer. Silver lining: Another crack at a world where every household as a decent server and every neighborhood has a small tech geeks co-op to steward them.
@slowenough @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga
Mac is a wrong solution, Apple can control these devices and make it unusable, even if you are in your rights.
Honestly, I don't see how Europe would let it happen, I mean locking down hardware/software, even if they bring back manufacturing and were leading their own software. If it happens it's purely to serve US interests.
I don't want to wait for a pseudo moderate/democrat US president (this guy is not acting alone), we must cut it off now!
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@RedFacedUakari
> I love the idea of neighborhood ITI wish but neighborhood barely works for social exchange and common good, so "IT", don't hold your breath.
@omar @RedFacedUakari @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga Yes, local IT co-ops are unlikely to happen in isolation, and more likely to happen in the context of general rising of local community, mutual aid, and other neighborhood-scale organizing. City Repair in Portland, Oregon has worked on this sort of thing a bit, I'm sure there are many others.
People are getting rather organized in many places right now to defend others in their communities, so, many opportunities for community-building!
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@slowenough @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga
Mac is a wrong solution, Apple can control these devices and make it unusable, even if you are in your rights.
Honestly, I don't see how Europe would let it happen, I mean locking down hardware/software, even if they bring back manufacturing and were leading their own software. If it happens it's purely to serve US interests.
I don't want to wait for a pseudo moderate/democrat US president (this guy is not acting alone), we must cut it off now!
@omar @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga Oh yeah I wasn't suggesting everyone get a Mac, just pointing to it as an indication of a rapid increase in the number of people who are buying hardware so that they can run models locally.
That suggests it is a good time for new PC makers to get into the market!
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@omar @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga Oh yeah I wasn't suggesting everyone get a Mac, just pointing to it as an indication of a rapid increase in the number of people who are buying hardware so that they can run models locally.
That suggests it is a good time for new PC makers to get into the market!
@slowenough @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga
Just to clarify, It might sound like an anti-american stance, but it's not, I call for better balance and diversity.
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@slowenough @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga
Just to clarify, It might sound like an anti-american stance, but it's not, I call for better balance and diversity.
@omar @jenniferplusplus @cairobraga I'm American, and I very very much support humanity having more redundancy in our computing supply chains.
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@jenniferplusplus How are they removing access to the old machines?
@matt by making them unavailable to buy in the first place. By forcing the ai into both sides of every exchange with every bit of software they control. By requiring id to use them at all.
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For the record, AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work.
That industrialization of knowledge work has 2 parts. First, is mechanization. Making knowledge work dependent on some particular machine. This is already the case, with computers generally. Knowledge work is thoroughly computerized. But, those computers are small, cheap, universally available commodities. That doesn't serve the second part, so they're forcing in new layers of mechanization, and removing access to the old machines.
Second, they ensure those machines can only be obtained through large investments of capital. Thus, all knowledge work can be done only at the pleasure of the capitalists who own the machines. Personal computers don't help them, there. But a black box hosted service that consumes the entire web to build and a whole country's worth of electricity to operate sure as hell does.
"AI" is merely the banner under which they are organizing and justifying this project. The implementation details are just the implementation details.
@jenniferplusplus The wealthiest #TechBros #oligarchy #FossilFuels oppressors are consolidating as much wealth as they can, by employing classical #DivideAndConquer strategies to squeeze from the bottom up. This means unleashing as much power as they can to siphon as much money, as they can, from the masses. They clearly helped a great deal with campaign contributions toward the current US administration, and are now congealing in China to do similar, at scale.
Joining growing group movements like #NoKings, is one of the most powerful ways to counteract these #AbuseOfPower strategies. The first step is the easiest: signup electronically, get more involved locally.
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