Yeah, it has, but the rate of increase has slowed.

Not reviewing it. Not architecting it in a doc and handing it off. Actually building it.

??? Reviewing, architecting, and handing it off is pretty much what AI coding is. I feel like the entire industry has some kind of AI psychosis or something.

There's the theory of "peak oil" that people were freaking out about for a while. Well production follows something like a bell-curve. The idea was that we're so dependant on oil, when world oil production starts declining, human population will be forced to decline with it. However, technology like fracking/horizontal drilling has opened up new, previously unavailable reserves; and cheap renewables are easing demand. We won't run out per-se, but the energy needed to extract more will continue to increase (barring more technological developments). Oil companies are now predicting a demand-driven peak in oil consumption.

Modern agriculture is still heavily dependant on fossil fuels (fertilizer, pesticides, machinery, transportation, refrigeration), so oil and gas prices almost directly determine food prices. We should probably do something about that. And the greenhouse gas thing too.

I think I've heard someone say that there are enough fossil fuel reserves to burn to make the planet uninhabitable for humans.

I've done this (asked a frontier model red team my server), and it just gave me false alarms that I went investigating and weren't really issues (would've been an issue if I had a very specific configuration, but not generally). They produce a lot of noise, so you still have to somewhat understand what you're looking at/for. It didn't find any legitimate issues, which is good I guess.

Governments are captured by these companies. Any regulation would undoubtedly benefit these companies at the peoples expense. Right now, the best solution is probably open research and open weight models to keep the field level.

Sovol due to openness. An enclosed or easily encloseable one (core-xy design) if you want to print ABS/ASA.

I tried Servo earlier and it sort of works. Incorrect styling on even simple web HTML + CSS web pages. There's Kagi's Orion, but it's closed source, so arguably worse than everything else. I may check out Gemini and the Smolweb/Gemini protocol next, lol.

I never understood why non-profits hire "leadership" from for-profit companies. You're just going to get a non-profit that acts like a for-profit.

I've seen some Ham people getting pissed about the Reticulum creator demonstrating various things in ways that break laws. Transferring an image over Lora while not respecting air-time regulations or something like that.

Proton can't read your mail (big "*"); it's decrypted client-side. Feeding it to their LLM would violate that. I'm unsure about their other services.

I don't think Qwen 27B would make much sense. I'm pretty sure Deepseek is cheaper to serve at scale (because of the small active parameter set) and is "smarter." At least that's what is reflected by 3rd party provider pricing on Openrouter.

Reliable Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts integration

I think this could cause major problems for privacy guarantees.

IIRC a lot of big tech are lobbying for these laws. Raises barrier of entry for competitors, and makes it easier to harvest more accurate data from users.