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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

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207 points lexandstuff | 4 comments | 05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.842s | source
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edg5000 ◴[06 Jul 25 05:15 UTC] No.44478026[source]▶
I've spent many year moving away from relying on third parties and got my own servers, do everything locally and with almost no binary blobs. It has been fun, saved me money and created a more powerful and pleasant IT environment.

However, I recently got a 100 EUR/m LLM subscription. That is the most I've spend on IT excluding a CAD software license. So've made a huge 180 and now am firmly back on the lap of US companies. I must say I've enjoyed my autonomy while it lasted.

One day AI will be democratized/cheap allowing people to self host what are now leading edge models, but it will take a while.

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1. Folcon ◴[06 Jul 25 07:51 UTC] No.44478692[source]▶
Out of curiosity, what use case or difference caused the 180?
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2. AstroBen ◴[06 Jul 25 12:49 UTC] No.44480360[source]▶
Bit obvious isn't it?

A girlfriend simulator

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3. edg5000 ◴[06 Jul 25 12:49 UTC] No.44480366[source]▶
Claude Code, where it can use tools and iterate; if it makes mistakes it will know as well and retry, this is a massive boost from copy pasting into chat and getting the trust broken by the LLM confidently making mistakes. By having it be responsible for the results, it has increased utility. E.g. "when I run the program I get error X, see if you can find out what caused it. Run make in ./build and run the program to see if the error is gone". In addition, Claude has written some nice code on occasion that was simply no different that how I would have done it. In a few sentences I can explain my coding style and the rest is derrived from existing code.
4. alternatex ◴[06 Jul 25 17:34 UTC] No.44482573[source]▶
One day we will be able to self host our virtual wifu