Yann is the Phil Zimmerman of our era. He is a hero. Phil is the author of PGP, the first somewhat usable (by mortals) asymmetric encryption tool. He stood up

Yann is the Phil Zimmerman of our era. He is a hero. Phil is the author of PGP, the first somewhat usable (by mortals) asymmetric encryption tool. He stood up against governments who wanted to lock down and limit encryption in the 90s, and they of course deployed tons of scare tactics to try to do so. Yann is fighting that battle today. The Llama models are basically PGP. How he got Meta to pay for them is a story I want to hear. Maybe they just had a ton of GPUs deployed for the metaverse project that were not in use. If/when I ever finish my current endeavor I’d like to go back to working on AI, which I did way back in college in the oughts. Because of Yann I might be allowed to even if I am not rich or didn’t go to a top ten school. … because that’s what regulating AI will mean. It will mean it’s only for the right kind of people. Yann is standing up to both companies intent on regulatory capture and a cult (“rationalism” in very necessary quotes) that nobody would care about had it not been funded by Peter Thiel.