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       title: April 14th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-04-14, 08:24:38 -07:00

     

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       link: https://kenkantzer.com/gpt-is-the-heroku-of-ai/

     

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         - AI

     

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         - GPT

     

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       Ken Kantzer writes [“GPT is the Heroku of AI”](https://kenkantzer.com/gpt-is-the-heroku-of-ai/):

     

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       > “a very, very expensive way to do ML features without needing an ML team. It’s actually not even that expensive compared to the value, but it _is_ expensive compared to cheaper locally run LLMs and using a traditional ML model, once it’s been trained.”

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       title: April 14th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-04-14, 08:40:43 -07:00

     

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       link: https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-brazilianization-of-the-internet

     

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         - darkforest

     

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         - cozyweb

     

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       Kneeling Bus’ [[The Brazilianization of the Internet]] is an important read. I need to think about how my [[Community Search Engines]] exacerbate “enclave-gated internet” spaces.

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       Community Search Engines is the label for a set of approaches to interconnect communities. 

     

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       * Digital spaces, such as a Discord server

     

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       These are often communities of interest, but can also considered to be trust relationships: if you are connected to a group of people you may extend trust to other recommendations they make. 

     

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       ## Summer of Protocols

     

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       I have applied to the [[Summer of Protocols]] with [[walkah]], see the [RFC in the forum](https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/pig-community-search-engines-event-chat-artifacts-as-research-building-block/879).

     

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       ## Reading 

     

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       [[Dark Forest and Cozy Web]]

     

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       [[The Brazilianization of the Internet]]: forming communities, which can be considered a kind of commons, do exclude or make [[cozyweb]] spaces. Does this cause a kind of elitism, and/or further deteriorate public spaces?

     

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       ## Tools

     

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       [[Lieu]] is an example of some code that helps build community search engines and webrings.

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       link: https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-brazilianization-of-the-internet

     

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         - cozyweb

     

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       published: 2024-04-12T12:00:00

     

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         - Drew Austin

     

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       > Talking to no one is the near future of social media, the digital equivalent of warming your hands over an oil drum bonfire in an abandoned city

     

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       > As we retreat from the toxic, cluttered social media clearnet to the newsletter-and-messaging [[cozyweb]], this is closer to the real future of the internet: Each of us armoring our digital selves with a carefully constructed array of filters to let in the good and keep out the bad

     

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       Clearnet here is actually [[dark forest]] theory, where the open or “clear” internet bombards us with things we don’t want. Whether that’s spam, irrelevance, ads, or active toxic responses from other humans. 

     

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       > <mark>humans themselves will have a harder time competing for attention and access</mark>. In a landscape that feels increasingly noisy and polluted, this challenge is heightened even further, as the stabilizing elements steadily retreat from it, creating a vicious cycle where the spam and fury become ever more concentrated.

     

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       Here’s where the title of the article came from:

     

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       > Another 2021 essay, [The Brazilianization of the World](https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/) by Alex Hochuli, describes how “the fate of being modern but not modern enough now seems to be shared by large parts of the world: WhatsApp and favelas, e-commerce and open sewers.”