AlteredEgo

Hardware compatibility is the major problem with alternative android. Basically I have to buy a 10 year old used phone as is. Would this only make this worse?

Anyway, maybe AI code generation could actually help with things like hardware compatibility. Things like an AI agent could iterate on reading about a smartphone model and testing various configurations and patch drivers to make it compatible for many more devices. Not sure if AI is suitable for that, but you should be able to define stringent test cases for this.

What does it for me is that these companies were unwilling to pay creators to use their work in the training data

I believe it was logistical impossible. Many books used will probably be scanned and not even be available as ebook or drm protected or out of print. And e.g. Anna's archive has 64,416,225 books and 95,689,473 papers. Too large to even say what is pirated or nor, or buy every book in a lifetime. And if every book costs you ~$10 that's close to a billion dollars upfront. Basically creating LLMs wouldn't have been possible without piracy (or maybe the datasets aren't actually that extensive).

It's hypocritical, but ultimately the same argument for piracy that individuals use: IP laws creates unreasonable restrictions that prevent people from learning (or enjoy culture at a sensible price).

(I assume you're not saying you would need a negotiate a specific license to use a book or a public comment or article for machine learning).

Kinda reminds me of Year Zero by Robert Reid. The whole galaxy full of aliens loves Earth Music but only recently figure the concept of copyright. And how much quintillion moneys they now owe Earth lol.

Ping

So what are you trying to say? You signal goes up a few kilometers, then you're in near vacuum in space where signal travels with proper light speed and results in faster transcontinental ping.

There are no clouds and atmosphere in space. That is what makes it space.

EDIT: Actually radio signals already travel near speed of light in the atmosphere. Only light in fiber optics is about 66% of speed of light.

EDIT2: Oh wow, a Chinese research initiative just achieved a breakthrough with hollow core fiber optics which does transmit close to the speed of light. This could render that advantage of sattelite internet moot! Upgrading cables is going to be a massive infrastructure project though.

Does online banking work? I hate two factor authentication lol.

Would a hard fork not splinter the software support, killing the ecosystem? E.g. some devs only support that hard fork, others only the android compatible version.

Artificial paranoia lol. "False positives" and overreactions might be possible, but probably less so than now. Today a dictator might get suspicious and think "I'll have to watch that guy... but to be save, I better kill him now". But an AI could watch them and everybody else 24/7, every word someone says or what he does. Then he has the "luxury" to trust in the total surveillance and not have to overreact and create chaos.

I believe that hallucinations are less of a problem when you tell an AI to sift through and summarize and analyze existing data, compared to generating new text.

Anyway, I believe it's a real world application that could dramatically change the "Rules for Rulers".

I'm honestly curious. I generally agree with everything you said except the IP argument.

LLMs probably have applications for dictators. Instead of solely relying on their "keys of power" and a huge hierarchy filtering what the dictator knows and sees, LLMs could sift through and filter vast amounts of data to spot potential threats to his power. This plus security droids is probably the wet dream of the techbros.

In low earth orbit?

Hell, maybe they can nationalize it and get Elin paid.

Nationalizing it and turning it into a public utility instead of for profit would be a good thing. Or in this case it should belong to the whole world and run by the UN.