Sure, we are able to work/communicate remotely. But the problem is that even remote work on super-computer is limiting and reduces the iteration cycle. I prefer to run small and fast experiments on local machine, fine-tune for significant time and after this send them to big cluster. Once in this stage, observing the progress from coffee shop is more like a "gradient addiction" for me. Why? On local machine I get much faster iterations and find errors quickly. In Elon's words, the "bandwidth" between me and machine is higher. The merge started, but there is still a lot to be discovered in order to broaden the information flow.
Optimizing for this sort of thing will end up with your brain in a vat. It's a fool's errand and Elon is an idiot for trying to open up this avenue for economic competition, as it's a race to the bottom. And it ends with human being as merely components to a machine utilized by those with capital to make more money.
We need to rethink a lot of things about being human outside of one-dimensional economic man.
