I get that people who sell AI-services wants to promote it. That part is obvious.

What I don’t get is how gullible the rest of society at large is. Take the norwegian digitalization minister, who says that 80% of the public sector shall use AI. Whatever that means.

Or building a gigantic fuckoff openai data centre, instead of new industry https://openai.com/nb-NO/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

Jared Diamond had a great take on this in “Collapse”. That there a countless examples of societies making awful decisions - because the decisionmakers are insulated from the consequences. On the contrary, they get short term gains.

Got this response from one of the developers:

Looks like a routing issue, it works when navigated to from the index page without a full reload.

https://docs.pears.com/

If I was China, I would be thrilled to hear that the west are building data centres for LLMs, sucking power from the grid, and using all their attention and money on AI, rather than building better universities and industry. Just sit back and enjoy, while I can get ahead in these areas.

Also apps that don’t need servers. Switched to this for staying in touch with family p2p, works surprisingly well https://keet.io/

Dude, I decided to make a personal note with lots of similar links regarding privacy, so that I can provide the source when I discuss these matters with people. But yours in much more thorough - and public. Thanks for saving me a ton of work!

I have a few colleagues that are very skilled and likeable people, but have horrible digital etiquette (40-50 year olds).

Expecting people to read regurgitated gpt-summaries are the most obvious.

But another one that bugs me just as much, are sharing links with no annotation. Could be a small article or a long ass report or white paper with 140 pages. Like, you expect me to bother read it, but you can’t bother to say what’s relevant about it?

I genuinely think it’s well intentioned for the most part. They’re just clueless about what makes for good digital etiquette.

There can be an unlimited no. of connections (or peers). Remember the bittorrent days, where you could seed to and download files from many peers simultaneously? You can do the same with data streams, f.ex. video and audio. Try Keet if you want to see a practical example.

We don’t need data centres to share files, chat, do video calls, live streaming, etc.

If I’m having a video meeting p2p instead of microsoft teams running in the cloud, that would reduce power consumption, not increase it.

How about reducing our dependence on data centres by using software that is more peer to peer and local first etc?

Of course some data centres have legitimate use cases, such as big data analysis on weather and climate data etc, but building huge data centres for social media and running everything in the cloud is silly from an environmental perspective

Absolutely, people still need money. So P2P would not solve that bit, but at least the donations can go directly towards content creation rather than having to cover server costs as well.

Maybe a silly idea, but what about a P2P-based video hosting! Hear me out:

We have more computing power and bandwith in our homes than ever before. We know that sharing data and files via P2P works, is resiliant against attacks, and scales really well.

No server costs mean that people could support creators by seeding the content to other peers. One cool thing about that would be seeing how you are making a difference, in real time.

Cool! Out of curiosity, what was the trigger and/or motivation to make the switch?

Thank you for expanding on this topic, and I get what you’re saying about proper UX and how it requires a holistic understanding.

It least that is what is required to climb from “ok, I guess” to “good”. But is there something that could get us from “terrible” to “ok, I guess”? What’s your take on better, clearer design guidelines for example?

Well, people make good code that is open source, even though it doesn’t make them any money. Same with wikipedia articles.

So why are we not seeing more contributions in the form of better UX/UI it the open source world? I don’t see a logical reason why that has to be the case. The question is what can we do to change it, and also get UX-designers on board?