ambition
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A slight recap before I jump into my larger points:

So I'm leading this group that's supposed to be on
"artificial intelligence and cultural computing"

but, being the luddite that I am, a lot of what
I'm trying to do is push back against what I see
as the new battleground for centralization and the
accumulation of computational capital

it's not like I think machine learning, broadly,
is inherently evil or destructive but I *do* think
the current push for bigger and bigger models on
larger and larger datasets is anti-thetical to the
ideals of permacomputing, is inherently
capitalistic, and will only server to centralize
power in the hands of a few

but just being negative isn't going to do the job,
instead what I need to do is try to articulate
what a good future would be, what it would be mean
to actually use this technology in a positive and
responsible way

and that's where things get interesting: I don't
think there are a lot of people doing this work
right now but maybe I'm in a position to try and
make connections to the people who are.

I'm in the smolnet, I'm putting my foot in the
door in a lot of machine learning communities, and
I'm going to have some kind of institutional
backing that will give me some authenticity.

Maybe we can make this happen?