RE: https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117453005618069047

slopware freedom conservancy 🥱

@cwebber Is this whole free software endeavor about producing more and faster, or is it about empowering people and fostering collectives?

This is the question those LLMs companies have forced us to answer, thereby breaking the alignment that existed so far between industry & “open source” on one hand, and people focusing and user freedom and autonomy.

@copiesofcopies @bkuhn

@bkuhn while we have seen hype cycles, the AI bubble is something fundamentally different. The pessimism and anger is based on a lot more than that it gets shoved into everything.

@copiesofcopies @cwebber

@bkuhn

And we shed them as soon as it became practical to do so.

You will never find it practical to shed Claude, because:

1. you will never be able to afford the necessary hardware to do so (Moore's law is dead),

2. you will never obtain an adequate corpus of training data (because you, lacking billions of dollars, are actually subject to copyright), and

3. you will be prohibited by law to do so (because compliance with AI regulations costs billions).

@twipped @cwebber @copiesofcopies

This is an attempt to address the growing number of "oh, so you don't like automation when it comes for *you*? checkmate, programmers" articles out there, but there's so much more to say. Overall I think this idea that computer programmers just destroyed jobs is largely false. One of the weird corollaries of the Productivity Paradox is that we mostly *did* expand possibilities and make things better and more fun.

(Until all the Gig Economy stuff. But that's still a minority of tech history.)

Also this is a big argument in the alternative. For technical reasons related to context limits and training data, none of this shit actually works well enough to replace software at any meaningful scale. To paraphrase @pluralistic by way of Jensen Huang: AI will not take your job. A boss using AI to fake their quarterly KPIs will take your job.

AI does not disrupt. AI entrenches. AI turns money into more money; AI turns investment into dependency. We are living in a funhouse mirror of that right now where the combination of overly-plausible demos and first-one's-free incentives are swamping the actual balance-sheet math. But the economics require that this stabilize, that the capital flows reverse direction. The wave has come in and we are just starting to feel the undertow.

Linus is saying the quiet part out loud: AI-native projects are environments where the key ingredient is _capital_. Abstraction can be performed by a quiet appreciation. True automation can be disruptive.

AI-based architectures (again, assuming that the AI works reliably, which is a highly contingent proposition) translate all that stuff into capital flows. A "machine speed" project requires _money_ to participate in, regardless of their complexity.

Abstraction is leverage. Automation is the amplification of power. Abstraction is democratization. Automation repeats a duplicative process so you can stop thinking about it and focus on something higher level. Abstraction elides so architecture can expand.

AI is anti-leverage. Where an abstraction will elide duplication with semantic compression, AI steamrolls the duplication by copying and pasting faster than a human can.

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to process. It creates a situation where the AI user gets to set the terms of some ecosystem with synthetic productivity but then everyone else needs an AI to figure out what's going on in that new ecosystem.

@fentiger This is an interesting idea, but mainline DHT is not compatible with overlay networks like Tor and I2P, AFAIK

I am looking for a DID method that is not tied to any particular transport or network. The most promising is still did:webvh, which supports witnesses:

The extra participants are intended to identify both malicious attackers of the identifier, and malicious use of the identifier by the DID Controller.

@fentiger This is an interesting idea, but mainline DHT is not compatible with overlay networks like Tor and I2P, AFAIK

I am looking for a DID method that is not tied to any particular transport or network. The most promising is still did:webvh, which supports witnesses:

The extra participants are intended to identify both malicious attackers of the identifier, and malicious use of the identifier by the DID Controller.

@fentiger This is an interesting idea, but mainline DHT is not compatible with overlay networks like Tor and I2P, AFAIK

I am looking for a DID method that is not tied to any particular transport or network. The most promising is still did:webvh, which supports witnesses:

The extra participants are intended to identify both malicious attackers of the identifier, and malicious use of the identifier by the DID Controller.

@lutindiscret

all true, and i agree. but with properly orchestrated ai code reviews, using several top models reviewing each other’s work and going back and forth, you can largely reduce human review to checking the intent rather than every line of code. the resulting implementation these days can be extremely good, often better than what most humans produce.

@hypolite @nyrath @swope About the self censorship thing leading to bland unexciting media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgFuLqqb9mg

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he de decir que el usuario ha elegido eso por su privacidad y y y

pero es un poco mas complejo, mirare a ver

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