"Good" is subjective. But yes, all wealth creation requires working with other people. No one is an island. And most people are increasingly disturbed by the types of decisions required to amass more wealth than sovereign nations.
Yea, it's puzzling to me that this isn't asked of folks like Altman and Amodei in every interview. Maybe it's because Altman would just start shilling his eye scanning orb and start repeating "WORLD COIN" ad nauseum. Either way, they should be getting pressed on this by all media.
It's not puzzling. Journalism was murdered because it asked Nixon too many questions. So now unless you softball interviews, you just don't get to interview anyone, so the only news orgs with content to monetize are the ones just printing Press Releases and being a backboard for "interviews".
It sure is fun how the party who screams about "personal responsibility" seems to get very upset if you ask a responsible person to explain themselves and their actions.
Totally agree. Adult life is just mentally taxing. I'm more curious and more eager to learn now in my 30s than I was in any of my schooling. The learning isn't hard but the energy regulation is.
I think it's so easy for people to discount "mental energy" since culturally we don't often acknowledge it as a finite resource the same way we do physical energy. Well maybe the problem is we view them as separate things in the first place.
When I was younger I just didn't have to worry about so much stuff.
This thread is a really good point. I am in my late 50ies now im really good with computer hardware because I started when I was 11. But I started wanting to become a SCI-FI writer at 35 and it has been an up hill battle to get good at for all the reason described in this thread.
There's no "end" per se, but shifting dynamics. I personally think we are currently seeing a "slow", but noteworthy-in-hindsight, shift in interest and development of alternative options and platforms from the big tech monopolies. From things like Bluesky, Framework laptops, minimalist cell phones, and even smaller local language models and other types of useful local ML models.
I don't think it's going to be anything like 50% or even 30% of users using non-flagship hardware or software products. But it could still be significant. And I think the more important thing isn't going to be market share as much as proof of viability. More successful examples will beget more.
It's about planting seeds from which future digital ecosystems can grow -- that have interoperability, functionality, and openness built into their foundations.
I believe that what drove you to make this post and the way I feel is not unique and are part of a larger swell in similar sentiments.
You throw in other factors too like the mass tech layoffs and the continued doubling down of tech barons on their cravings to intermingle with the surveillance state and military industrial complex... I just can't see how the future doesn't have more people disillusioned with the current state of the tech industry.
I think big tech will continue to overplay their hand and the mess that comes after will be an opportunity to give people what they want and show alternatives to what's already been done that we know won't work out.
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