alt Hacker NewsI think being able to accomplish more from places that are a fraction the cost of Silicon Valley will also help achieve the goal of doing things for reasons other than the money.
I think the amount of protectionism we’ll see could be absolutely enormous. Not only do incumbent corporations not want to lose share, incumbent countries won’t want to share either.
Definitely. For now I'm making friends with lots of very capable people - it's not as easy to do that outside of a hub like SF.
> I think the amount of protectionism we’ll see could be absolutely enormous because corporations aren’t capable of altruistic attitudes.
On some fronts they will be powerless to stop the changes. I look forward to drinking the tears of IP owners when breaking through their DRM and recovering their source code is just a matter of sharing a model ID, prompt, and hyper parameters. Reverse engineer NVidia's firmware and drivers. Decompile and port Nintendo's latest console's operating system. We may soon find ourselves in a world where tasks like that are achievable in a few days on consumer hardware.