Month: June 2024
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Solving the problem
There are lots of voices bemoaning the use of copyrighted materials in the training of large language models, how much energy and water is consumed by their creation, and how they are enclosing a commons to create a new generation of robber barons. Congress could, if they were a functioning part of human civilization, enact…
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Middlemen
Thirty-four years ago today I got off a bus in the middle of the night and stood on yellow footprints at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot to begin boot camp. It was a different world. The Berlin Wall had come down, the Soviet Union had effectively surrendered (though it would take another year or so…
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Scaling Standards
Level Human Geographic Organization Logical 1 Personal Device Individual Personal-Area 2 Family Home Workgroup Local-Area 3 Tribe Neighborhood Team Campus-Area 4 Community City Co-Op Metro-Area 5 Clan Region Company Wide-Area 6 Nation Continent Government Nation-Area 7 Species Planet MegaCorp World-Wide