On: Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

[inigyou]

cypherpunks of today would probably be focused on bringing big tech down a notch, rather than spreading more LLMs

[coretx → inigyou]

https://tinygrad.org is probably the best punk in this regard. Moving LLM's out of your drug dealers datacenter and into your utility closet.

[stale2002 → inigyou]

No, being a cyberpunk is not about having some authoritarian control that prevents other people from using technology.

Instead it is about empowering the masses. It's about being a rag tag hacker fighting to do stuff that other people want to stop you from doing.