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766 points huseyinkeles | 8 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 1.053s | source | bottom
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karimf ◴[13 Oct 25 16:02 UTC] No.45569878[source]▶
I've always thought about the best way to contribute to humanity: number of people you help x how much you help them. I think what Karpathy is doing is one of the highest leverage ways to achieve that.

Our current world is build on top of open source projects. This is possible because there are a lot of free resources to learn to code so anyone from anywhere in the world can learn and make a great piece of software.

I just hope the same will happen with the AI/LLM wave.

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1. contingencies ◴[13 Oct 25 19:46 UTC] No.45572555[source]▶
While documenting a build path is nice, IMHO renting hardware nobody can afford from VC-backed cloud providers using cold hard cash to produce clones of legacy tech using toy datasets under the guise of education is propping up the AI bubble and primarily helping institutional shareholders in those AI bubble companies, particularly their hardware supplier NVidia. Personally I do not see this as helping people or humanity.

This would sit better with me if the repo included a first tier use case for local execution, non-NVidia hardware reference, etc.

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2. jstummbillig ◴[13 Oct 25 20:02 UTC] No.45572724[source]▶
I think you got your proportions slightly wrong there. This will be contributing as much to an AI bubble as a kid tinkering around with combustion is contribution to global warming.
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3. simonw ◴[13 Oct 25 20:05 UTC] No.45572753[source]▶
"This would sit better with me if the repo included a first tier use case for local execution, non-NVidia hardware reference, etc."

This is a pretty disheartening way to respond to something like this. Someone puts a great deal of effort into giving something interesting away for free, and is told "you should have also done THIS work for free as well in order for me to value your contribution".

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4. contingencies ◴[13 Oct 25 20:07 UTC] No.45572778[source]▶
Not really. Anything that guy does sets the tone for an extended cacophony of fans and followers. It would be a sad day when nobody critically assesses the motivations, effects and framing of those moves. I question the claim this move helps humanity and stand by the assessment it's just more feeding an unfree ecosystem which equates to propping up the bubble.
5. CamperBob2 ◴[13 Oct 25 20:08 UTC] No.45572792[source]▶
If you can't afford $100 or learn how to train it locally with more time and less money, then this isn't something you should be focusing on at all.
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6. contingencies ◴[13 Oct 25 20:12 UTC] No.45572839[source]▶
It is an objective and transparent response based on free software world norms. Feel free to interpret differently and to be disheartened. Hell, many of us are disheartened by the AI VC political theater we are seeing right now: experienced programmers, artists, lawyers, perhaps much of humanity. Let's stick to objective elements of the discussion, not emotional opine.
7. contingencies ◴[13 Oct 25 20:17 UTC] No.45572882[source]▶
It is amusing to note the dichotomy between the clearly compassionate, empathetic and altruistic perspective displayed here and the comically overstated framing of helping humanity.
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8. CamperBob2 ◴[13 Oct 25 22:14 UTC] No.45573903{3}[source]▶
(Shrug) Other sites beckon.