On: NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

[gaiagraphia]

"mediocre people"

I'm glad to see the mask is falling off the privileged caste.

Is there anything inherently wrong about open access to tools? (Apart from rent payments).

[dlmanning → gaiagraphia]

The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves?

[gaiagraphia → dlmanning]

And such people learnt everything from the beginning? From fire?

Where's the cut off point of where learning something for yourself becomes the signal for entrance to the enlightened caste?

[dlmanning → gaiagraphia]

It's the point where you expend effort to learn a useful skill.

[djhn → gaiagraphia]

> (Apart from rent payments).

Privilege enables you to rent competence, historically by paying other people. The slop companies will now sell you a simulacrum of competence by the token.

The fact that competence can (could?) only be acquired through sustained effort over a long period of time is (was?) levelling the field.

Selling simulated competence perpetuates privilege, instead of dismantling it like you seem to claim.