Living in biking distance of what you need is the dream. I do and I’m so happy about it. Yet I don’t hate friends that live in the countryside and have 2 cars. I’m trying to convince them to switch to an EV but I understand their lives are different.
I mean we all know that driving combustion engine cars is an absolutely terrible idea and incredibly inefficient from both a physics and a societal viewpoint. Yet, even most people that accept that fact don’t go around breaking up contact with their families or boycotting any business that uses ICE cars.
Sometimes we can be loud about the terrible impacts of a technology and demand stricter regulation while also leveraging the benefits ourselves. Maybe we can do a little bit ourselves. Like not owning a car or at least an EV. Or by being considerate about token use and using smaller or even local models for the lighter tasks.
I would prefer no spying. But with the US being a fascist surveillance state run by greedy billionaires, American cars are no better. Either pick one from a functioning liberal country or focus on the tech. China is clearly ahead on tech.
Unfortunately regular Internet search has gotten terrible and most " search engines" are showing AI results so it’s basically impossible to avoid. And I am missing nuance in conversations about AI contributions to software that consider “did you use Fable or an open weights model running on your hardware”.