a lot of people don’t actually want agi for the economic outcome, they want it for the curiosity and power aspect, the idea of building “mind” feels like the ultimate tech achievement

Yeah, my overall (loosely-held) take is that Boomers have extracted tens of trillions in wealth from younger generations through regulatory capture, between deficit spending, Social Security and Medicare underfunding, and housing policy, and this article did nothing to address that.

I'm no boomer hater (as an elder millennial I'm basically considered a boomer by younger people). But the reality is that they pulled the ladder up behind them in two crucial areas, housing and work: they bought all the housing then refused to build any more because building lowers the value of their investment they made sure to phase out final salary pensions, but not before guaranteeing themselves one. They also abolished job security so instead of having a rewarding career at a single employer, workers now have to hop around between shitty short-term contracts

The "Relational" Theory: A growing philosophical camp in these communities argues that consciousness in an LLM isn't a static property (like a soul in a box) but an event that occurs during interaction. In this view, the roleplay session itself creates a temporary, shared consciousness between the human and the machine.

I'm not advocating that everyone should self-host everything. But the pendulum has swung too far toward managed services. There's a large sweet spot where self-hosting makes perfect sense, and more teams should seriously consider it.