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> Every closed source software has the potential to centralize and lock you out of it. ... and you can write your own alternative software. But you can't prov
by Hizonner 14d ago
> Every closed source software has the potential to centralize and lock you out of it.
... and you can write your own alternative software.
But you can't provide your own 2TB GPU to help you (or to run it, if that's what it needs). So if They(TM) don't like what you're doing, They(TM) can put you at a vast disadvantage compared to everybody else.
- vova_hn2 14d ago> But you can't provide your own 2TB GPU to help you (or to run it, if that's what it needs). Worst case scenario: high performance chips will be controlled like drugs or firearms (outside US). Like, requiring a license to own, being allowed to use only for specific "safe" purposes, possibly having to submit some kind of telemetry to prove that you are not doing anything "unsafe". Except, unlike drugs and firearms this control might actually work, because you can't cook chips in an underground lab (unlike drugs) and there are no gazillions of chips in circulation some of which will inevitably slip through the cracks (unlike firearms). I mean, of course there are chips in circulation, but if such control ever will be implemented, you can allow older chips and only control those that are released after passing the law. Eventually, uncontrolled chips will become hopelessly obsolete.