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@vruz I can't tell if you're being funny or not :) But: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Smith_(investor)
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@vruz I can't tell if you're being funny or not :) But: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Smith_(investor)
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@vruz Ignoring the cult leader that you're quoting, you are witnessing the standard story for a new mechanical improvement to an existing process.
The first few movers must invest quite a bit of money, and then the technique becomes well-known enough that further improvements are croudsourced. In the olden days, this is what patents were meant to ameliorate.
The real insight is that -- like with all software -- eventually the Free Software solution will be preferable, and the profit window will narrow to nothing.
@vruz Ignoring the cult leader that you're quoting, you are witnessing the standard story for a new mechanical improvement to an existing process.
The first few movers must invest quite a bit of money, and then the technique becomes well-known enough that further improvements are croudsourced. In the olden days, this is what patents were meant to ameliorate.
@vruz I also am going to go on a limb here … buy would love to know whether its development was heavily subsidized through the labor of a cadre of underpaid graduate students.
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The use of the term "shoggoth" for an LLM is excellent here.