| Thank you :) But I didn't mean to say it's those pesky non-dreamers who make the problem hard. Three idealists will have ten possible utopias that are partly or completely mutually exclusive. And to be frank, I think a lot of the finger pointing at people who don't care enough about issue X or Y is really because of not having found good ways to work constructively and make progress with however few people who do care. Partly also because people cannot agree (for long, tend to splinter into more pure sub groups and all that). At any rate, the way can't be "I should feel bad and do better", but rather "I want what they got!". And the burden can't be on the people who aren't yet seeing anything that makes them excited to get excited anyway. And it can't be about being selfless for the benefit of others, or future generations. It has to its own reward right here and now. It is about and for you just as it is anyone else, if you know what I mean. Sacrificing others and sacrificing oneself is sacrificing people in both cases. Neither is noble IMO. I guess the best chance of fighting tech giant strangleholds is still empowering "normal people" to carve out their own little spaces. All people will not finally learn how to make websites if only we crushed Facebook and what have you, but instead if more people had fun making their own little websites, and if we could come up with good ways for them to connect(peer-to-peer on the desktop, right after Linux!), Facebook and others would play nicer. It's not that big companies are a problem, it's the abusive things they do when they're the only game in town. And likewise, and back on topic: a really good argument would be something I don't have the knowledge for, namely things you can do with a LLM that you can fully control (or at least can wildly poke at and experiment with, or just "download mods for") versus a much more powerful LLM that you don't really control, other than your prompts. Thanks for reading! |