People saying LLMs are a singularity don't know how LLMs work.
When you feed ChatGPT some text, what you get out wasn't the result of the text being processed by a neural network. It's the result of the text being processed by a deterministic algorithm, one part of which was decided on by a neural network far in advance. That's what neural nets do, they contribute to other algorithms that, while often complicated, are deterministic. If ChatGPT were to become sentient somehow, it would be happening behind the scenes with a neural network you've literally never interacted with before.
It's not defeatism. It's identifying the problem, and identifying that political change should be the priority. When liberals are out there deregulating this shit, subsidizing the industries that contribute to the issue, and then saying it's the fault of the consumers, you can start to see why just telling people to cut down on their carbon footprint and leaving out that we should be advocating for environmental regulation, walkable cities, etc. might be an issue.
TL;DR Saying that corporations are the primary ones at fault isn't "defeatism", it's saying we need to do something about them. If you're such a doomer that you think corporations are invulnerable, that's on you.
silly enthusiast, don't you know that using community distros is just mooching, and the only real FOSS is the kind that basically indistinguishable from proprietary software?
I mean, other visions of Web 3.0 are essentially a larger scale version of what the Fediverse already does. I'm not that optimistic, sadly, since that kind of decentralization isn't particularly profitable.
wait why is Tim Pool an anarcho bidenist, who the fuck made this
oh no it just gets dumber the more I look at it