Aceivan

osmand uses openstreetmap, its just a polished up android version. Most features I've seen in an open source maps app although I think they were trying to monetize some parts last I heard. openstreetmap on its own is unfortunately a pretty rough substitute for google maps in a lot of common areas (its pretty bad for even looking up addresses), but it is still useful

I'd argue the trend I see in the west in tech right now is that overuse of LLMs is actually resulting in a dumber, less educated tech workforce. that may not be the case elsewhere but it is in my experience. more productive? for some people yes, but not more innovative, or more educated.

Edit: okay I misread you a bit with the above. you werent saying genAI was making people smarter, but that the practice implementing it and scaling up chip production was a step on the path to agi

However, I believe AGI is inevitable, will provide a massive first mover advantage, and will enable capabilities for those who wield it to subjugate those who don't.

I'm a bit more agnostic on AGI but yeah, that is what I mean by longtermism... I just don't think what we do in the present should be dominated by the possibility of developing AGI in 50 years

At worst, AGI will be built to fit the needs of a class that seeks to enslave us all, at which point subjugation will be total and unavoidable.

We must make sure an AES state (i.e. China) leads in artificial intelligence.

kinda veering into effective altruist/longtermist territory here. the rise of macine learning and LLM usage aren't a concrete step towards AGI. LLMs dont understand literally anything, they just generate statistically right-sounding babble. for well-trod topics, that can generate correct responses, but not because there's any intelligence going on

But of course I generally agree, in the capitalist world this technology will be used and developed only insofar as it is profitable or can be used for class warfare against us. The trajectory is similar in china but they are actually funding the more valuable to humanity types of research, and will likely curb most excesses that would harm working people rather than lean into them.

honestly I'd go further and say that LLMs are making us all dumber. let alone the kids who will grow up using LLMs to complete assignments written by LLMs

I do see some of this. Its hard to get outside my social bubble enough to get a read on society at large but I definitely see some fraction of younger people being relatively offline and focusing on doing physical things in the real world. I just think that can be kind of a lonely path when many of the structures of society are being remade to push us towards whats online and whats profitable. For every chill offline person I meet I know two people addicted to gambling apps.

my thoughts exactly. I'll stick with sway