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New comment by Alwayshasbeeb in "Our position on open-weights models"

Alwayshasbeeb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:34:00 +0000

Not really. It's probably just international users not tolerating american exceptionalist hubris when they see it, especially now that the pretending is done.

Plus, what a shocker it is that a "hacker news" website would have many people with an affinity towards open source technology they can fiddle with and have autonomy over, and a distaste for tech monopolies trying to control and limit access to these tools.

New comment by Alwayshasbeeb in "Our position on open-weights models"

Alwayshasbeeb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:23 +0000

Oh no! The evil CCP is a huge threat to world peace and goodness! Give all your money and input token data to Palantir to support a rules based world order where the good guys thrive and cleanse the earth from crooked turtle biologists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/mona-khalil-tu...

New comment by Alwayshasbeeb in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

Alwayshasbeeb — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:03:14 +0000

A "US for-profit publicly traded company" is what brought us the Cambridge analytica scandal. I'd rather not trust them with the next wave of consciousness and opinion shaping technology.

Also, oligopolies aren't famous for being strongly bound by market forces, especially when their decision makers are non ironically being treated as if they were heads of state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/world/europe/g7-summit-ai...

New comment by Alwayshasbeeb in "Claude Opus 5"

Alwayshasbeeb — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:34:19 +0000

Nothing today indicates that they will be living in a renewable energy utopia. Solar panels and batteries getting cheaper is just not enough.

New comment by Alwayshasbeeb in "Claude Opus 5"

Alwayshasbeeb — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:31:16 +0000

That's quite easy.

Fracking

Social media infinite scrolling and targeted ads

Short form videos (tik tok, YouTube shorts, instagram reels)

Coming soon: Deep sea mining

Some of these are not great technologies, you might say. Well if they're impactful enough to turn everyone I love into a phone zombie and make the political landscape violent and insane then that's enough.