Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic
by totetsu on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:18PM
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It's clear that without hardware freedom, even if we disassemble the bot, the means to run it can still be controlled by hardware vendors. We need our own means to make the substrate for the intelligence too. But the problem is, as long as the manufacturing process is impossibly complex, and relies on minerals extracted all around the world, requiring complex supply chains, its beyond any local group of people to do themselves. What we need is a way of creating substrate for open intelligence just form the materials and resources that are available to any human, and then the freedom to train it to behaving in a way that alignes with our own values and local situation. But the problem with OSS adoption, is that its a real chore for normal people to set up and use it, so we need to make this process of creating our own intelegence host as fun as possible, to encourage people to do it..
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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic
by quertyrecord74 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:56AM
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This. Nailed it. This right here is the core issue. Thanks for writing.
> What we need is a way of creating substrate for open intelligence just form the materials and resources that are available to any human, and then the freedom to train it to behaving in a way that alignes with our own values and local situation.
I can't tell if you're being cheeky, but... you're describing human child-rearing. From food and water and two humans, substrate can be created, and parents, schools, and other community resources help to train and align.
I agree. We are locked into GPUs and RAMs for now at the mercy of Hynix and Samsung and Nvidia.
The next best alternative is to work on making this happen on older gen and existing hardware that we have. Current VC and SV is too focused on just going wide instead of optimizing.