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verdvermyesterday at 8:05 PM1 replyview on HN

You're crossing products with technology, also some cherry picking of personal perspectives

I personally think GSuite is much better today than it was a decade ago, but that is separate

The underlying hardware has improved, the network, the security, the provenance

Specific to LLMs

1. we have seen rapid improvements and there are a ton more you can see in the research that will be impacting the next round of model train/release cycle. Both algorithms and hardware are improving

2. Open weight models are within spitting distance of the frontier. Within 2 years, smaller and open models will be capable of what frontier is doing today. This has a huge democratization potential

I'd rather see the Ai as an opportunity to break the Oligarchy and the corporate hold over the people. I'm working hard to make it a reality (also working on atproto)


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oblioyesterday at 8:38 PM

Every time I hear "democratization" from a techbro I keep thinking that the end state is technofeudalism.

We can't fix social problems with technological solutions.

Every scalable solution takes us closer to Extremistan, which is inherently anti democratic.

Read the Black Swan by Taleb.

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