[echelon]

You're moving too slow.

Over the last four days I've few shotted a 1:1 clone (and improvement) of Fal, OpenRouter, and Replicate in Rust. It's going to be open source.

I've lined up $300k of monthly commitments for it that land at launch. Might apply to YC with it.

Moving "organic" is too slow for the world today.

[overgard]

Oh cool, you're remaking things that already exist. You know why you can few shot those things? Because they already exist.

[echelon]

Everything already exists. We only have incremental changes. The average moves over time.

The ball is moving towards open source and this will include fine tunes and LoRAs, and even more fertile growth after that. There's an abundant future market in that direction.

Several billion dollar businesses started as open source clones of existing things. Some found unique business lines, others simply did a better job.

[CyberDildonics]

Everything already exists

Then why are you trying to make something?

[echelon]

Why make new music or new movies? The same things have been said by every previous generation. Just listen to your parents' music, right? Use the same technology, the same fashion, everything.

Why?

Because it's incremental improvement.

Because it's making a dent in the world.

Because creation feels better than consumption.

Because we're maybe 10-20 iterations away (250 years, tops?) from brain uploads and everlasting life harvesting the energy of distant stars. Or at least our descendants are. And that's pretty cool.

[CyberDildonics]

Because we're maybe 10-20 iterations away (250 years, tops?) from brain uploads and everlasting life harvesting the energy of distant stars. Or at least our descendants are.

You can predict 250 years in the future now and when 'brain uploads' will happen and when everlasting life will happen and when the harvesting of distant stars will happen?

That's impressive because you've made predictions a year into the future and they never came true.

[ozim]

Should have get some AI for bait posts :D

[sph]

Would you believe me if I told you you’re only the second biggest AI maximalist on this forum? Despite the extraordinary claims I keep reading from you. Gotta work harder at it mate.

[nasretdinov]

Depending on what you're working on, moving slowly and thoughtfully might be a feature. Just saying

[echelon]

We've had 50+ years of that. While you're undoubtedly correct, the bulk of the opportunity is in the massive disruptionary forces this creates.