The rule-makers don't stop anyone, and often the end state is worse than before the rule existed. This happens constantly with tech and the laws that try to contain it.

Tech is like reality: there are endless routes to roughly the same destination, and rules are slow. The asymmetry is the whole problem — you only need to find one new route; they have to block every possible one.

One does not have to use social media or be exposed to that crap. The nice info is easier than ever to reach.

If you start to think of information as code you run through your brain, you may want to select and sanitize what you run. Because in the end, what you read triggers what you think/feel, which influence what you do.

You start to see patterns that let you understand what input leads to what output, and so to organize your actions in a way that will generate preferred outcomes.

I constantly check what the situation is versus what I want, then pull the exact location where the change needs to happen. I ask for some solutions, accept one or suggest a different one (most of the time), and repeat.

It's pretty fun, and you can make the product better by using it and understanding what you want—which is very difficult to know before the product exists.

Competition and innovation will hopefully make the bubble pop, and we'll get reasonably priced local hardware to run very intelligent models. Something like Talaas with GLM 5.2 would be pretty cool. Or Apple printing the latest model onto hardware—it would give a new reason to buy a new Mac every year (a new ai model with every new version).

- new AI desktops with GB10s. They are relatively cheap and you can cluster them and load 1TB of VRAM

- Nvidia, amd, intel, Cerebras etc pushing new hardware

- oss models getting crazy good, like glm 5.2

- flash models getting very good like deepseek V4 flash

- quantizations

- harnesses being able to use different models (big for difficult stuff, small for grunt work)

So hopefully soon for the ones who want to break free from APIs, we will be able to host at home a cluster of AI desktops at a reasonable price with Opus-level capabilities, can't wait!!

Fortunately they are Anthropic and so as the name tells, they will care about humans. And so we can trust them they won't try to push agendas that require constant propaganda to be accepted, since it never happened before right?

De platforming, debanking, misinformation, hate speech, anyone?

I wanted to build something making bows automatically and damn, pretty complex and expensive to buy the parts.

I was like, I can probably just buy a 3D printer, print all the parts and buy some motors, but it seems it's way more complicated than that.

Like to play with a single hand robot. It looks like you need 10k+$. I wanted to spend max 1k, 3D print parts, buy motorized parts on Alibaba, and code on my Mac + spare GPUs I have access to. I'll have to save a little :(

In general, I'm happy with their paternalistic approach. I think it will drive the top 0.1% talent to stay away from the company and instead organize around open source models and harnesses.

We just need to coordinate and can unlock idling resources to train the models and tweak the harnesses. Powerful at home and idling machines can make us independent and coordinated.