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There is no other choice but force, however. That's how all revolutions go.

We will have UBI, one way or another, by force if necessary. The people today talking about AI would've been leading revolutions as they did in the 20th century once their lives were automated away.

Correct, this news just hasn't gotten traction until now on HN it seems, as I've already seen this news on r/LocalLlama and thought it was another piece of newer news.

Why do they care about global usage though? This seems primarily so that they can control it for their billion plus population, they really don't need global users at all, much to our chagrin.

People seem to have these conspiracy theories when in reality, frameworks do exist to make developers' (in aggregate at a company and in general) lives better. I'm not gonna write DOM manipulation code from scratch when React (or Solid, or Vue, or...) handles everything for me.

Everyone seems to wrap up their criticisms on AI and labor saving technology in general as though it's a personal affront when in reality, as it's always been, it's an economic problem. Once we have UBI or something similar, you will see most people's opinions on AI doing math and art, for example, start to change to one of cooperation, not adversarial.

Just install microG or Mind the Gapps

YouTube has a "new to you" feature which changes your homepage with different videos than your main recommendations.

No, what will happen is they'll have a subscription and then also ads.

Similar to DeArrow except with AI right?

I guess no one knows how to spell sleight anymore.

Yes, because that would be an insanely bad calculator, 1 in 10 wrong answers?

Use the DeArrow extension by the SponsorBlock creator that replaces titles and thumbnails with crowdsourced anti-clickbait ones.

All these words and no mention of the book where the term comes from, also eponymous, by Cal Newport. His book is about actual digital minimalism versus whatever Vitalik is referencing here.

I'll similarly ask, what depreciation? Hardware is going up in value, not down, and even if it did depreciate faster, people are optimizing models for older hardware so that again they retain more value for token generation.

I was misremembering, they were sued for spam laws, not for their revenue being fraudulent so it seems it's legitimate, making a billion in revenue with one person (and later on his brother who was hired), the rest is all AI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dol...

https://www.businessinsider.com/medvi-ai-weight-loss-million...

Reminds me of a few things, like being a meat proxy, as well as books like Company of One or Million Dollar One Person Business, and these were published before AI so right now we will see companies with only one founder and hundreds to thousands of AI agents. There already was that drug delivery company with the one founder but apparently a lot of their revenue was fraudulent. Still, it proves the point that it is possible.

Back up the data. For things I do with ChatGPT I ask it to only use Google Drive for Markdown and other files, not ChatGPT's own Space file system. You can ask ChatGPT to do this migration for you too. This makes moving to other AI such as local ones as you said quite easy.

I also use ChatGPT as a self analysis tool and it can synthesize things I've said before in passing to show patterns over time, which is the killer app, sort of like a therapist but much more nuanced and detailed because it has "infinite" memory and ability to piece things together.

However, at the same time I do have lots of friends and go to social events, which I suggest you do too, as it's not healthy to only talk to AI all the time instead of others. It's hard making new friends and it does require sacrificing such as going into the city for events as you said but it's worth it. Just the other day I had to go an hour for a meetup that I thought of skipping but it was very enlightening and I'm glad I went as I met some cool new people.

Much longer than a year. First time I recall was when Stable Diffusion dropped, on HN everyone was suddenly a copyright hawk.

Good thing code can do a lot of things then huh?

> why is it so hard to give money to Mistral?

Maybe your definition of hard is much different than everyone else's...

Finally, Le Chaton Fat. However, I'm not sure how well Mistral is doing in comparison to the other open-weight models, particularly Chinese ones, and I guess one would only really use Mistral if they want to have EU provenance for models.

Artificial Analysis is not trustworthy anymore. Every time an open-weight model, especially Chinese, looks to be nearing the top, AA updates the index to (ostensibly) specifically push closed models higher. Just recently with v5, OpenAI models were pushed up.

That's an OS issue not a touch vs keyboard issue, therefore not related to what we're talking about. A phone can run an OS with devtools if you so choose, and a laptop with a desktop OS can have a touchscreen.

Metal 4 for better performance in games, especially the new AI recomps

Their S1 shows they're profitable.

I mean, you don't have to. Do you need a Mac? I make mobile apps and Xcode is only on macOS so I definitely need it but most people don't, there are Windows and Linux options that are great for fractions of the price.

What?

AI films will be as normalized in 20 years as CGI is right now, even though both had their controversies when they started out.

That's what I'd have thought too, it's more of a just in case thing, if the director later wanted a shot inside the drawer.