story
Deepseek R1 is something that you can run in a garage on hardware that the average software engineer can buy with a months salary and when it came out last month it was better than _every_ other model.
As a Venezuelan, I thought so too. 25 years on...
But the reality distortion field around the current administration is very powerful. Fox and CNN are owned by supporters of the republicans, NYTimes and Washington Post don't appear to be reporting certain aspects of the government restructuring. Multiple social media sites are owned and ran by people who support the current admin.
I am personally worried that we're going to see the gradual yet continual escalation of rhetoric, more actions that undermine rule of law, and continued lack of critical thinking in so many people. That path appears to lead to extremism.
I have a horrible feeling that whoever "wins" in a couple of decades or so will have no time to savour their utopia as the climate catastrophe really starts to bite hard.
Anyone with morals driving their use of a new tech will be limited, and unless those people massively outnumber the few selfish ones they will lose eventually.
Of course, similar things could be said about controlling information flow through: social networks, newspapers, printed books, or whatever the town crier shouts in town square. But, each advancement in information dissemination tends to be power concentrating relative to the older tech, and I don't see any reason why this most recent advance won't follow that trend.
