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Positive users praise open source AI as the next revolution like BASIC, while negative users reject the analogy as failed and insist guardrails are essential.
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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
If Folks Like Dario Had There Way, There Would Be No BASIC Computer Language And No Personal Computer.
Why?
It’s too “dangerous”. I mean terrorists and child abusers could use them.
BASIC’s legacy is not nostalgia; it is a blueprint vision that every student and citizen should have access was radical and correct. We must apply the same principle to AI: make the best models as accessible as possible, with safeguards developed collaboratively and transparently, not imposed top-down.
Support open weights where feasible, fund auditing and red-teaming in the open, build local and distributed infrastructure, and resist narratives that paint democratization as recklessness.
If we fail, future historians will look back and ask: What if they had treated AI like BASIC? Where would humanity be?
The answer is clear—we would be far poorer, less innovative, and less free. The spirit that turned teletype terminals into a personal computing revolution must guide us now.
Code for everyone.
Intelligence for everyone.
The garage awaits.
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
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Misty Ari@mistysidalex
@BrianRoemmele basic was a tool not a religion. guardrails are needed when the tool can literally rewrite reality not just your school paper.
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even constant@pfitzart
@BrianRoemmele failed analogy
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Joseph Hurtado - Founder Granata Consulting@josephfounder
@BrianRoemmele Open source built the Internet. We need it, and about BASIC what wonderful language BASIC was.
It was my first computer language on an IBM Clone. Loved it.
Python is the closest to BASIC, but nothing ever match it.
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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
@mistysidalex Misty, umm what does AI run on?
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Larry Diffey@GrizzledTexan
@BrianRoemmele The first time I used BASIC was on a Commodore PET in 1978 probably?
I was a kid, I didn't build anything useful. Mostly drawing lines on screen and some really rudimentary animations.
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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele
@pfitzart He did fail. Badly.
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Geo Anima@geo_anima
@BrianRoemmele 1557
England didn't ban the printing press.
Just licensed who could own one.
140 yrs of censorship.
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Chris@Real123Here
@BrianRoemmele The next revolution 👇 INTENT
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jeffrey lee funk@jeffreyleefunk
@BrianRoemmele Clinton was a great democratic capitalist even balancing the budget. He was followed by George W Bush who invaded Iraq and presided over the sub-prime mortgage inflating and popping. Thank you George.
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