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I don't know about that. Regarding "free", it was always under copyright and distributed restrictively (DRM, ads, and geo-blocking). And no comment necessary for "benevolent".
Symbolizing both human origin intelligence and AI becoming super-intelligent together. I think it's a good name because it draws on ancient human mythology and serves as a reminder of the concept of alignment.
"Feels like" and "clear case" don't mix. Just say "I'm bluffing".
Why not? And for what applications? Example: for a media streaming service, where each file is transferred many times, the bandwidth costs dominate, so it is worthwhile to spend a great deal of time on encoding to maximize efficiency. In the case of an archive, where a large amount of information is stored, accessed infrequently, storage space becomes the constraint, once again. In general, 1 marginal second of CPU time is usually cheaper than 10Mib of marginal storage (or whatever the figure works out to be). Finally, why not just write a fast FLAC encoder?
Ok, but what would make that useful?