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by diggan 379 days ago
> they will slowly become out of date and useless

Models released today are already useful for a bunch of stuff, maybe over the course of 100 year they could be considered "out of date", but they don't exactly bitrot by themselves because they sit on a disk, not sure why'd they suddenly "expire" or whatever you try to hint at.

And even over the course of 100 year, people will continue the machine learning science, regardless if it's legal or not, the potential benefits (for a select few) seems to be too good for people to ignore, which is why the current bubble is happening in the first place.
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blibble 379 days ago
your hardware won't last 100 years

> And even over the course of 100 year, people will continue the machine learning science

the weak point is big tech: without their massive spending the entire ecosystem will collapse

so that's what we target, politically, legally, technologically and regulatory

we (humanity) only need to succeed in one of these domains once, then their business model becomes nonviable

once you cut off the snake's head, the body will die

the boosters in search of a quick buck will then move onto the next thing (probably "quantum")

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diggan 379 days ago
I think you over-estimate how difficult it is to get "most of the world" to agree to anything, and under-estimate how far people are willing to go to make anything survive even when lots of people want that thing to die.
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blibble 379 days ago
> I think you over-estimate how difficult it is to get "most of the world" to agree to anything

agreement isn't needed

its success sows the seeds of its own destruction, if it starts eating the middle class: politicians in each and every country that want to remain electable will move towards this position independently of each other

> and under-estimate how far people are willing to go to make anything survive even when lots of people want that thing to die.

the structural funding is such that all you need to do is chop off the funding from big tech

the nerd in their basement with their 2023 macbook is irrelevant

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