My speculation is that AGI is much closer than people think, and there's huge implications to that, and that the board was lied to. AGI will require the largest moat in history, through regulation, lock-in, network economics and massive data centers. GPT-5 might be the the first AGI. The open version might even get therr first. In which case they'll want to ban it. I predict this time next year we will see the first signs of AGI.

The iPhone is nice, but it’s not a game changer, like landing rockets or self driving cars.

The technology of Tesla’s AI will change the world extremely radically over the next decades. More radical than the internet, almost as radical as Bitcoin.

At least that’s my opinion.

While this is certainly true, he has also built the most agile company culture and lead those to several achievements previously labeled „impossible“:

-Landing rockets

-EVs that are better than any gas car

-Self Driving in 90% of situations with no premapping nor lidar nor radar.

So yea, he is great at marketing and a lot he does never works out. Yet he achieved more than any single person in history, maybe except Tesla himself.

Twitter thinks they will become the public town square but only 22% of the world is capable of having a voice

No credit card = no blue check = no reach

One specific example then I’m done ranting this morning.

Progressives in general want affordable, accessible healthcare for all. I think that’s a good goal and thing to have in the U.S. that we are awful at currently.

However, Medicare for all won’t work under the current system.

The current system is healthcare providers, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies saying “jump” and the US government saying “how high.” Progressives want Medicare for all under the assumption that we have a blank checkbook and unlimited debt potential to pay healthcare costs, even if these costs are completely controlled and dictated by greedy corporations at elevated rates.

If we end the era of easy money, infinite debt, and embrace hard money and more savings for lower and middle class, we can maybe start to figure out how to address healthcare in our country. Until then, it is broken beyond repair and no bandaid solution will work.

Btw, I also think it would be ok for tax payer dollars to fund healthcare if and when the broken system I described was replaced. There are many things tax payer dollars DO NOT need to be spent on, or as much, and no the answer is not get rid of taxes and “voluntarily” take care of each other. I don’t take those arguments seriously for tackling problems like healthcare, housing, climate change, etc in 2023.

Truly hate to say it, but recently it's been chatgpt... Have been able to go down some really interesting rabbit holes researching topics using it.

The DNC does understand they need uh, votes/voters, to win the election right?

What a joke.

or lnlink/commando which is 100x better ux nostr:note1fyk0l6qsgrq72j0ug0jfh6zvt6sfkus307hkyj9wkckkq5yndwgsuxjlsa

Woah. There's a lot of backend dev jargon. Can you understand it and ELI5 the few main points and differences? Dxos uses IPFS and seems... organized and nicely marketed and packaged. This advantage alone could gain it traction that nostr suffers.

Is it as censorship resistant and free as nostr?

Quikc rant about licenses:

Few understand that MIT is a free to take license designed for corporate takeover and can be relicensed under whatever the entity doing a corporate takeover of your project wants, and they can then use the State to prevent you from competing with them.

GPL and MPL exist to prevent this. They are share-alike licenses and put you on a level playing field with corporates.

Out of pure self-interest, I will not contribute to an open source project that does not guarantee me, as contributor, that my patches and changes will never be turned into private code, and used against me, so this rules out MIT/BSD licenses.

Out of a sense of ethics, I will never create an open source project that does not provide these guarantees to anyone contributing to it.

maybe there will be a BBS-style client some day, or a decentralized BBS or something.

I greatly prefer the BBS or Forum mode of discussion. The twitter-esque sycophant version of discussion makes me ill. But here we are, with an opportunity. The anonymous BBS days are over anyway.