mozilla: "we choose the path of the most capital intensive boondoggle we can't afford"
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/
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25 years ago we out competed a buggy web browser by making a less buggy web browser. that's why today we're choosing to engage in the same field of play that the largest companies in the world, which are orders of magnitude more powerful than they were 25 years ago, are betting their entire futures on. while they can rewrite the state of the economy at a whim, dropping nuclear power plants along critical infrastructure and taxation optimums, we have the scrappy heart of a lion.
one day they'll find a dusty pdf on some forgotten floor of the googleplex detailing how they eked out 1% greater profit by derailing the only credible hope for a different internet at scale by telling them that they were tech visionaries and geniuses capable of anything they put their minds to.
Its like someone locked some people in a room and didn't tell them anything about how AI was being competed over and how computing hardware had changed in 20 years and said "and only you can fix this problem."
Like did they miss how all the companies are basically having to buy off entire towns to produce enough electricity because the amount of electricity it takes to compete in this arms race causes the water to become poison
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we have brainworms"
@jonny "doing for ai what we did for the web" is the most hilariously misinterpretable euphemism they could have chosen
