It's social media. Social media is all about bubbles, groupthink, driving engagement. It happens on Facebook, it happens on Reddit.
It happens here, too. There are certain views that are accepted as what every right-thinking person holds, and certain other views that are dumped on with great glee about how wrong they are. But which specific views they are varies from bubble to bubble.
To flee North Korea requires playing a long game, marry someone you hate.
You get out ahead of the locomotive knowing that most of the directions you go aren't going to pan out. The point is that the guy who happens to pick correctly will win big by getting out there first. Nothing wrong with making the attempt and getting it wrong, as long as you factored that risk in (as McDonalds' seems to have done given that this hasn't harmed them).
Sometimes peoples' heads just fall apart.
Well, rarely.
Okay, once. Sheer coincidence that it was such a prominent person and in such a prominent moment. And that Lee Harvey Oswald just happened to be cleaning his gun by that window at the time. But hey, sometimes weird coincidences happen.
And under copyleft licensing, they're allowed to do that. Both to GitHub repositories and Wikipedia.
Why would that matter? You can fork such projects too.
I don't think that making LLMs cheaper and easier to run is going to "pop that bubble", if bubble it even is. If anything this will boost AI applications tremendously.
I don't think you've thought through the logistics required for the sort of war where you'd just go around and shoot everyone who lives in hundreds of solar systems. Even assuming they do nothing at all to defend themselves, how do you even find them all?
"Just give me this and I'll do the rest" is actually a pretty great workflow, in my experience. AI isn't at the point where you can just set it loose to work on its own but as a collaborator it saves me a huge amount of hassle and time.