Yeah I agree with that fully. It's a trap. Fortunately, it seems like that lie is falling apart in various ways. Maybe I'm mistaken, but the products that went with that strategy don't seem like they'...
> My central issue with something like YT is not them making money as a video hosting platform.
No one is disputing this, or at least not anyone with a basis on the modern capitalist reality.
> Things like Nostr have the same resource constraints, but you can't prevent me from running my own infrastructure on the same protocol. YT can. Like I can't just compete with them on that, so they can do whatever they want.
Yes and companies like Google were forced to pioneer these things, but they did it on a lie, just like AI is doing now. People look at me in absolute shock when I tell them you can pay for LLM access. They honestly don't see that the most resource intensive technology to ever have been created might cost a few bucks per month.
That's because if you told them the truth of what it actually cost, they probably see it as a net positive. Not all progress has to be built on a lie like this, although it's a fair argument to say it has for many large events in history.
I could serve 10,000 concurrent video streams with 1KW of power and $7000 worth of equipment with 99% uptime. OR I could maybe have a single text conversation with a smarter spell check for the same price.
No one is disputing this, or at least not anyone with a basis on the modern capitalist reality.
> Things like Nostr have the same resource constraints, but you can't prevent me from running my own infrastructure on the same protocol. YT can. Like I can't just compete with them on that, so they can do whatever they want.
Yes and companies like Google were forced to pioneer these things, but they did it on a lie, just like AI is doing now. People look at me in absolute shock when I tell them you can pay for LLM access. They honestly don't see that the most resource intensive technology to ever have been created might cost a few bucks per month.
That's because if you told them the truth of what it actually cost, they probably see it as a net positive. Not all progress has to be built on a lie like this, although it's a fair argument to say it has for many large events in history.
I could serve 10,000 concurrent video streams with 1KW of power and $7000 worth of equipment with 99% uptime. OR I could maybe have a single text conversation with a smarter spell check for the same price.
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