Agreed. This is the way of the future. Is there a subscription model? I'd like myself a CPU-as-a-service. $50-100 a month seems reasonable.
Using these "efficiently repurposable" building blocks we can even create new software! Ultimate composability. I'll rent you a couple of instructions and you can create whatever turing-completeness your heart desires for the low, low cost of $0.01 per instruction. (I will have to send all your data to our headquarters in Russia and China, but only occasionally.)
Did anyone patent this already? Time to jump on this.
To anyone who might be confused, the parent and gradparent posts (mine) are intended to be comedic, consistent with the tone and spirit of the article itself.
I think it's something interesting to consider. I'd describe it more as computation than as intelligence, but I also do keep in mind that there is no single universally-agreed-upon definition of intelligence, so the goalposts can shift.
And if you ever ignore a red light, pay your taxes late or do anything other than your absolute best to be an upstanding citizen you should be put into prison for the rest of your life.
This lacks nuance. You ignore the effect they have on the ecosystem as a whole. Mentioning the "Go community" and their "agreement" of Google's decisions without acknowledging this is disingenuous at best. They have already swayed and gatekept large swaths of the (web)development "community" by their decade-long dominance and no one can make an impactful, meaningful decision in that field without their implicit approval. Their dominance is felt best by the way they control the conversation i.e. what we don't talk about - i.e. the web among other things they touch sucks, continues to suck and it is going to get worse and less free and they are significant negative contributers. So yeah, I'd rather see them cut into pieces.
Your comment lacks any content. You make vague claims of "effect on the ecosystem" without mentioning what that is. Give an example. Can people not create web frameworks? Can people not create products hosted on the web? Can people not use AWS or Azure for all their computing needs?
You can't just claim "everything they touch sucks" without a single example or evidence to back it up. You look like a hater.
A lot of people here aren't necessarily pro-Googlers, but rather open-source contributors who want to secure a future for themselves. That's not a bad thing, and Google's partnership with open-source has been mostly benevolent. People are quick to point to the "killed by Google" argument, but how is Google going to kill an open project? If they stop funding it and nobody takes up the mantle of maintaining it, maybe it's not actually that useful anyways. In either case, you still have the option to maintain the code yourself.
Thanks for the ad hominem attack. FYI, I have no google stock, never worked for google, have never contributed to a google open source project. If they’re supposed to be paying me for pointing out common sense on this thread ... they’re late on their payment.
> Thanks for the ad hominem attack. FYI, I have no google stock, never worked for google, have never contributed to a google open source project. If they’re supposed to be paying me for pointing out common sense on this thread ... they’re late on their payment.
But still lightyears off. You are dramatizing our priviledged existence. Billions (literal) would offer their firstborn son to be "cogs" working a "massive corporate enterprise". What you are describing is the good part of modern life, I suggest you don't look at the bad parts if this already disturbs your soul.
As a computer engineer you need to focus on computers, not people. I know this is popular right now, but it sucks and it is wrong and leads to bad results. Yes, the current state of affairs is a "bad result", young ones.
We expect civil engineers to account for people, but they think about materials, planning, math, etc. Stay close to your craft or you might see it and/or your position in it evaporate.
At the design level where stresses strains and loads are the considerations, it’s nothing about the people. I think that’s the level the parent was thinking of.
Take time off, go offline and have deep thoughts. Record everything.
In 90% of cases: you need to ignore these thoughts as they can be time-consuming. You are not going to solve anything worthwhile related to organizing a 100M democracy if you are not in that field. You will not just "pick it up" unless you are a freak of nature and you are not.
Using these "efficiently repurposable" building blocks we can even create new software! Ultimate composability. I'll rent you a couple of instructions and you can create whatever turing-completeness your heart desires for the low, low cost of $0.01 per instruction. (I will have to send all your data to our headquarters in Russia and China, but only occasionally.)
Did anyone patent this already? Time to jump on this.