In previous item I focused on our loss of innovation and flexibility after we switched to all finance and all monopoly. China and Russia didn’t make the switch, so they continued working with LIMITED RESOURCES. Now they’ve beaten our stupid MAX-FINANCE and MAX-THEFT approach to AI, with a technique that can run on normal computers and doesn’t have to steal all the copyrights and patents in the world.
[Later update: Now Microsoft is complaining that China “must have” re-stolen Microsoft’s stolen data to accomplish the job. When we steal all the copyrights and patents at once, it’s moral and ethical by definition because Ethics means “billionaires must destroy everything” by definition. When we blame another country for re-stealing OUR stolen loot, it’s theft. Criminals and US rulers ALWAYS frame and blame “some guy named Joe” or “some country named China” for our crimes and sins. We are pure as the driven snow by official definition, and anyone who doubts it is in deep shit.]
Altman WANTS to steal the universe. That’s his purpose in life, and that’s the sole purpose of every US robber baron.
Innovation with MINIMAL RESOURCES is how you exercise your brain, how you learn, and WHY you create.
Before 1970, every town had at least one factory, and many of those factories had research and development facilities. Enid had large research labs for wheat (Union Equity) and petroleum (Champlin) and drilling equipment (Failings). Research was ‘close to the metal’ and close to the local people and traditions.
https://archive.org/details/6099_Industry_on_Parade_Can_3a_00_00_59_08
This Industry on Parade film from the ’50s illustrates the NORM before we lost our souls and minds. At 16 minutes the film features GE’s lab in Schenectady. One researcher needed a fast-moving contact to check the response of a multipole switch. Instead of ordering a fancy servomechanism, he simply fastened the contactor to a mousetrap. SNAP! Fast rotation. Another needed an oscillating mixer, so they attached the agitator to a windshield wiper motor.
You can’t use your own cleverness on a modern federal research grant because the MAIN PURPOSE of the grant is to waste as much money as possible. So you buy the most expensive and highly specialized equipment for an experiment that will last a few months. The equipment satisfies the precise specs for this experiment, but it’s useless for anything else. Then it gathers dust in the lab forever. I’ve seen this situation in several different areas, and I’ve ordered such equipment because it was THE ONLY PERMISSIBLE WAY TO DO THINGS.
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