@lejaguar__@SaveStandard@Breaking911 My job. My job is stopping me from waking up with the sun. Everyone who has work that starts in the early hours of the day is now subjected to misery all year round rather than just half the year.
Because more money chasing the same goods pushes up the price of those goods.
And there are lots of things politicians might want to do on the campaign trail, some of them they might actually implement, but "building more houses" is something the federal government is particularly incapable of doing in the current day.
The reason for this being that houses, especially in areas that people actually want to live and there is a job market, are mostly as expensive as they are to build because of local and state zoning laws, poorly written building codes that mostly are the way they are because of corruption in the mid 20th century that has only gotten worse, and depending on the state environmental review which property investors have long since learned how to abuse the process of to massively delay the building of basically everything (you can thank the anti-nuclear movement for coming up with this strategy).
All of these things the federal government has to deal with before anything gets built. If they try to overrule the state and local laws they will get dragged into the courts, especially if this is done without proper legislation, and that will delay the construction projects by God knows how long.
@Nox7hhsjj@jeremykauffman Well, as someone who can read, I can quite easily tell you that this isn't happening because those companies spent "billions creating them". It is happening because the administration is putting pressure on the AI companies to withhold the release.
@Sargon_of_Akkad A mixture of vandalism, the risk of idiots ramming into the supports, and it being cheaper to throw them on top of roofs, rooftop solar also not having the risks I just stated.
I mean, network effects are powerful. Mod authors will go where the users are and users will go where the mod authors are. And also it has the massive back-catalogue of old mods
And then, of course, they still have a far better UI than anyone else. DEG Mods is okay in this regard, but still has a way to go though.
I agree with you that I don't want the USG to control Anthropic's model releases. It sets a horrible precedent.
It is also true that this is exactly what they have been lobbying for for years and their "wait, not like this!" makes it impossible for me to do anything besides roll my eyes at them.