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Some minor clerical / editorial notes that popped for me on a read through
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| However, if these non-graphics uses continue to proliferate, there *will* be market pressure to commodify GPUs and democratize GPGPU programming, to reduce the [economic rents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent) that [nVidia](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/key-statistics/) and the [CUDA-wielding developers](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit) receive in sales and wages, respectively. This is not great news for nVidia and existing GPGPU developers, and the new power available to developers is unlikely to raise their salaries, but it should allow more diverse groups of developers to tackle problems that would have required significant funding before to achieve, perhaps as their own startup, which should be a net positive for the economy as a whole. As we know, [the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one](http://quotes4u.org/star-trek/the-needs-of-the-many-outweigh-the-needs-of-the-few/), and something that shaves billions off the top of corporations and gives regular people another tool to pull themselves up is still a net good and one I wish to pursue (your actions all have a political element, even if you don't realize it; best to make sure they align with your values). | ||
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| I want to democratize GPGPU development. If there is going to be [Artificial General Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence) I'd rather it be born to an individual rather than a corporation to minimize the chance that [corporate psychopathy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace) is passed on. 🫤 Thankfully this goal is *primarily* technical in nature (with a dash of psychology to get the developer experience in a good place), and we can analyze the socio-technical aspects of the Lisp Machines' downfall. |
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Hmm at least on windows for me, that U+1FAE4 before "Thankfully" is coming out as replacement char
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Weird. It looks like this on the actual site when it gets published:
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