colonelpopcorn

Why not both?

I think this is the only business model that makes sense, monetarily, for current LLM CapEx and OpEx. The value is not in what it can do for consumers or how much money it makes, but how it can shape consumers through knowledge control. Think of how much a totalitarian government would pay to keep citizens from thinking certain things.

Isn't this the central conceit behind "The Matrix"? lol

I went on a grand jury in early 2025, and it was eye opening to see that under my state's laws the "smell of weed" is enough to justify a traffic stop and search of a vehicle.

You'd probably have to embody it.

It's definitely the principle of least privilege applied to network access.

SSD installs were, for the longest time, the single best ROI on upgrading a laptop. I think a SATA SSD in that 2012 bad boy could considerably boost its performance.

I agree, but the incentives for Alphabet to encourage content like this isn't there. The content that is encouraged is that which keeps eyeballs glued to YouTube.

But it is. For the savvy user you can run whatever you want on an android device.

Just from an ergonomic standpoint it's a million times easier to deploy a go binary instead of a whole jvm and a jar file.

I can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.

Some folks had asked me to post this in a comment on a Kanboard thread, so I thought I'd just post it as a new submission. Enjoy!

You have to balk when anyone says that anybody is the same person they were 24 years ago.

That's a very Ruby idea.