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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Some people are working on that. Petals seeks to democratize AI computing by distributing the computation. See <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/petals-is-creating-a-free-distributed-network-for-running-text-generating-ai/">https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/petals-is-creating-a-free-distributed-network-for-running-text-generating-ai/</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Meh, democratize shmemocratize. Regardless of what form of government anywhere and any time, money really is the ruler of everything everywhere and everywhen. Don’t democratize, monetize! If there is money to be made, it will happen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>