**Response to @balajis:**
This is a good companion piece.
Read them back to back.
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This is quite good.
I agree with about 75% of it.
But it gets at some key issues.
You should read it.
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**Response to @balajis:**
That doesn't mean you can't use server-side AIs provided by businesses. You can, and many will be great products built by good people.
But it's like open source. A necessary (but not sufficient) condition for alignment is…
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**Response to @balajis:**
If the AI isn't on your hardware, it's not on your team.
stable-diffusion-ui.github.i…
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Not your API keys, not your AI.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1629169957174145024#m
Will AI decentralize?
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**Response to @balajis:**
I've been following AI video for years and it keeps getting better. We'll be post-Hollywood soon enough...
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**Response to @balajis:**
What's the purpose of cameras then? Perhaps to cryptographically stamp events.
Any upload could still be falsified, but the recorder would at least *assert* via frame-by-frame digital signature that a given event happened…
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AI may soon make it easier to generate *any* video on the computer rather than record it in the real world.
If arbitrarily photorealistic, this obviates Hollywood. And much of the film industry.
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**Response to @balajis:**
Just to be clear...
In the 1800s it was just the British empire.
By the 1900s the broader umbrella term included Western Europeans and Americans = Western civilization.
Now the broadest umbrella will be America + Most o…
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**Response to @balajis:**
Indo-European may be to the 21st century what the term Judeo-Christian was to the 20th.
The first is about shared linguistic roots, the second was about shared religious roots. And both are coalitional banners.
encycloped…
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**Response to @balajis:**
Indo-European is a real term, with more substance and history than the neologism of "Indo-Pacific".
And India isn't really part of Western civilization, but it *is* part of the broader Indo-European civilization.
britann…
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**Response to @balajis:**
The center of the world economy is now in Asia.
China and India are returning to the world stage.
For the West to contain China it'll need India.
But that's not an acquisition.
It's more like a merger.
Or, by some lights, …
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1800s: British
1900s: Western
2000s: Indo-European
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**Response to @balajis:**
Once you see the resort fees tweet as coming from the same place as the gas prices tweet — albeit somewhat more sophisticated — you realize we could see a lot more of this.
Namely, pushes for wage and price controls.
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**Response to @balajis:**
That's a secret decoder ring.
No doubt these random fees are bad!
But this is like the gas prices tweet.
The state doesn't care about transparency in other contexts.
This is more like imposing price controls.
On the busine…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1627945805238927361#m
I surmise this is due to inflation.
Costs are up across the board.
Revenue has to come up somehow.
This is like a stealth way of raising prices.
It's bad, but the state caused it in the first place.
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**Response to @balajis:**
Will add examples to this thread.
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**Response to @balajis:**
More examples:
- Aadhar dramatically reduced cost of ID verification
- Branded e-commerce increased trust among Indian consumers, relative to small roadside stalls
- Basic infrastructure has improved; you can trust that c…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/balajis/status/1627904172262825985#m