Definitely. For now I'm making friends with lots of very capable people - it's not as easy to do that outside of a hub like SF.

> I think the amount of protectionism we’ll see could be absolutely enormous because corporations aren’t capable of altruistic attitudes.

On some fronts they will be powerless to stop the changes. I look forward to drinking the tears of IP owners when breaking through their DRM and recovering their source code is just a matter of sharing a model ID, prompt, and hyper parameters. Reverse engineer NVidia's firmware and drivers. Decompile and port Nintendo's latest console's operating system. We may soon find ourselves in a world where tasks like that are achievable in a few days on consumer hardware.