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Wonteet Zebugs · 1w
With alternatives like RISC-V (much much slower, yes), we at least have a sovereign option available. Now that AI is advancing, I find myself needing to browse the internet far less often. This reduc...
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re: Chinese users. I don't know your level of experience with China (I lived there for many years), but I think it very clearly shows the opposite: through a combination of deep packet inspection, a ton of monitoring and intimidating the public, the amount of "wall hopping" that goes on is tremendously small and 95%+ of the population know nothing except what the CCP allows them to. It does not support your case. re: reduced need for cpu/compute: I don't get your idea there, if you are replacing web calls with AI calls you're surely using more compute, not less.

I guess the most useful general comment is: I'm not denying that individual people, at smaller scales, can resist this, with effort. I'm just trying to make a correct prediction about the future of the world generally: I think the overall direction/trend is definitely going one way, not the other way.
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Wonteet Zebugs · 1w
Then you definitely know more about China than I do. The Chinese people I know all live abroad, so they're a small group who probably weren't as affected by the propaganda (proof being that they chose to leave), and their friends/contacts back home are likely the same. That's a scary thought. If 95...
Wonteet Zebugs · 1w
And to your point : one of the scariest developments in terms of freedom is the newly required ETAs and now biometrics in Europe, Japan, Thailand, etc. I can't see how to avoid it all except : being smuggled in, or simply refusing to travel. I can't see how even bitcoin fixes that. I guess the only ...