hmm this is an interesting take on the idea but I think the point is that he was stepping out of line with the hobbits, sure… But it wasn’t ambition, it was an understanding of there being more than the Shire.
It was an intellectual curiosity to take to the road, a calling by those far more experienced than himself, and if he had not taken the arduous journey there would have been no Shire.
They are not independent, one does not happen while the other does not. In this world there would be no Shire and you would make OpenAI Sauron.
In my personal opinion, I don’t think the Open Source community should lay down and die, they must evolve. There is a community requirement with AI in the mix to integrate with the community and long discussions on this forum on the nature of programming languages and our interaction with AI in the future.
If we have to loose our communities for AI, if we don’t question, if we don’t reason, dulce et decorum est.
I don’t have a fighter jet, neither do I have a hanger to store one in… Yet the community does and it is controlled by those you pit against a single tech leader. A leader that, as I understand it, asked permission from those in control for his plans and worked them to security concerns.
I think there is a balance to be found.
The story of The Hobbit is what introduced me to AI in the first place, when Apple brought internet to the town I lived in, in the Shire.
This is a question similar in this context. Consider for a moment all the bad that came with the internet. Apple weren’t responsible or liable for that, it was absorbed by the community.
Apple didn’t invent the internet, it was part of a far wider community effort.
A defence of community against Technology created the Open Source Community. Small developers considering the technologies of tomorrow and sharing them with the world.
Now I think it is the other way around… Those who once looked outwards to global community are now looking inwards to local community.
You didn’t do the wrong thing. You studied and learned. You are now able to consider bigger ideas. This is our duty in a world with AI. Not just business or governments.
There is another story about eating apples that may also have influenced my ideas. How easily influenced we are.
As a parent now I ask. What stories do we tell our children? Those that we have told for centuries, that built the strength in communities today? Or AI friendly ones that we write now over the coming few years? OR… Do we have to evolve our own ideas of what stories mean to suit the purposes of our own communities in an AI world…
Either way, this is a pressing question, one that I need to answer now. If I can’t see the problem, how can I find a solution?