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Tyler Perry’s financial woes don’t prevent that.

The economy is changing, not ending.

Personally, I’m really keen on 5D optical data storage. It’s extremely dense, and also incredibly robust - I’ve seen predictions of billion-year stability.

How many Minsk Agreements did Russia go through, again?

Have a listen to that rambling interview Putin gave Tucker the other day. He thinks all of eastern Europe is “Russian speaking.”

Russia has passed laws annexing Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. They invaded Kharkiv and made a run for Keiv and Odessa. Their politicians rant about how Poland and the Baltics are next. You really think anyone’s going to believe that they did all that to keep some territory that they had already occupied?

“He was a Nazi,” Russian propagandist’s favorite excuse for killing people.

So you think Russia intends to keep on fighting until it conquers Ukraine?

They literally just murdered Putin’s most prominent political rival. Just yesterday.

The fighting is to provide ammunition at the negotiating table. Currently, Russia isn’t going to accept any negotiated settlement that requires them to leave Ukrainian territory or return kidnapped Ukranian children, for example. But once Russia’s on the ropes there’s a better chance of them doing that.

No, I said things about AI and open source. I raised open source as part of my counter to your argument that this is “concentrating wealth.”

Here, I’ll explain in detail what’s going on.

In response to an article about Reddit licensing your content to AI trainers, capt_wolf said “it’s time to purge your account.” Presumably as a way to stop that from happening. I asked why that was a bad thing, specifically how it harmed us in any meaningful way. You came in at that point and suggested:

• It’s a scheme to further concentrate wealth
• It harms everyone but the 0.1%.

I raised open source as a counter to the “wealth concentration” point, because open source does the opposite - it spreads the wealth to any who want it. It puts these resources into the commons.

I also pointed out that I personally benefit from AI tools, so it does the opposite of harming me. As I am not part of the 0.1%, that’s a counter to your second point.

I was directly addressing all of the points you raised.

You said it concentrates wealth, but open source does the opposite of that - it allows small companies and individuals to earn money using the technology without having to pay for its use.

You said it “harms everyone but the 0.1%.” I am benefited by it, not harmed, and I am very much not part of the 0.1%.

My original question remains unanswered. “It may help someone I don’t like because they are richer than me” is a pretty weak concept of “harm.”

I draw plenty of benefit from AI tools. There are open source models that anyone can run.

Why? How does it harm you in any meaningful way?

If you’re talking about Glaze or Nightshade, those techniques are not proven to be particularly effective. Lots of people want them to work but that doesn’t make it so.

I’d say it’s not even really their place to be “examining the whole economic system.” Each individual is just a regular Joe who put in their time at a job over their life and would now like to reap the rewards of their effort in retirement. It bothers me when people insult other people simply for being caught up in a systemic issue that’s beyond their control.

The solutions for systemic problems need to be systemic as well. If we as a society don’t want to see housing move over to an exclusively rent-based system then we’ll need to address it through things like zoning changes and other legal reforms. When people oppose those things by voting against them, then we can start to apportion blame around.

I wonder if this is when the “AI is just a fad” talk is going to quietly fade away.

I’m sure there’ll be some little forked version of Firefox without the features you can’t abide simply turning off in the settings.

It’s also got a substantial helping of “here’s how things are getting better, and will continue to get better in the future.”

When you ask an LLM to write some prose, you could ask it “I’d like a Pulitzer-prize winning description of two snails mating” or you could ask it “I want the trashiest piece of garbage smut you can write about two snails mating.” Or even “rewrite this description of two snails mating to be less trashy and smutty.” In order for the LLM to be able to give the user what they want they need to know what “trashy piece of garbage smut” is. Negative examples are still very useful for LLM training.