@freakazoid Sometimes I get the sense that some of that generation of Pioneers will jump on the hype/bandwagon to remain relevant. But much like with AI the bias gets in the way.
Reading that essay I kept thinking, it's Anarchy that's the answer. The solution is community and folks not technology.
Technology limits people's imagination especially AI, our biases lock us in to our norms.
But then I suppose to an American privileged technologist that's very comforting.
@freakazoid With that particular level of privilege, anything outside that norm is something to be controlled.
Plus I suppose as you get older there's more of an obsession with legacy, and to try to remain relevant.
@freakazoid I remember back in 2018 thinking that I'd like to meet Tim Berners Lee.
But then Solid got launched and there was no desire at that time for the Dev team to engage with folks on the fediverse. That along with the dot org shenanigans rather changed my thinking.
We can't create the next generation internet without engaging with everyone who wants to use it. You can innovate in an ivory tower, but it will be limited.
@freakazoid The answer is solidarity with your fellow human.
But there's a desire to avoid uncomfortable situations. Hence the surveillance to make everyone behave.
Building Bentham's Panopticon, but much like Bentham's contemporaries not taking the next part with full transparency in government, and things like what are their LLMs being trained with.
For example the OSIs definition of Open AI is limited because the openness doesn't extend to the training sets.
@onepict @freakazoid Access to training data is such a game changer. Especially in small LLMs it means I can tune my prompts and the way U use the llm to stuff that it's already encountered. Especially handy for stuff like tool calling where the names of functions are important
