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he's dead jim

I am 100% right there with you. Writing in my voice is maybe the last thing I have that I can do differently and 'better' than an LLM in a couple years time, or even right now if I'm really being honest.

I haven't even really tried to use LLMs to write anything from a work context because of the ideas you talk about here.

Code won't compile: Tanya - Hahahhahahaha!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVqnEGpsgI

lol good luck

In which way?

Chemical weapons still exist and are used[1]

So are beanie babies, NFTs and garbage pail kids -- Things that have fallen out of fashion isn't the same thing as eradicating a technology. I think that's part of the difficulty, how could you roll back knowledge without some Khmer Rouge generational trauma?

I think about the original use of steam engines and the industrial revolution -- Steam engines were so inefficient, their use didn't make sense outside of pulling its own fuel out of the ground -- Many people said haha look how silly and inefficient this robot labor is. We can see how that all turned out.[2]

1: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/timeline-syrian-chemi...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine

Jenny, please try to conduct yourself with some sense of decorum here -- These are real people you're bullying. This isn't a hatemonger platform like some of the others. Please try to do better

I don't disagree with that, just that there's anything that can be done about it. Which technology did we successfully roll back? Nukes are the closest I think you can get and those are very hard to make and still exist in abundance, we just somewhat controlled who can have them

Since you're a real established artist, I want to make my point more clear: I am not an artist and while AI image tools let me make fun pictures and not be reliant on artists for projects, it doesn't imbue me with the creativity to create artistic works that _move_ people or comment on our society. AI doesn't give or take that from you, and I argue that is what truly separates art and artists from doodles and doodlers.

gottem Jenny

Just normal Luddite things, which attracts those most threatened in their personal identity by the new technology.

You see it obviously with the artists and image/video generators too.

We did this with Dadaism and Impressionism and photography before this too with art.

Ultimately, it's just more abstraction that we have to get used to -- art is stuff people create with their human expression.

It is funny to see everyone argue so vehemently without any interest in the same arguments that happened in the past.

Exit through the giftshop is a good movie that explores that topic too, though with near-plagiarized mass production, not LLMs, but I guess that's pretty similar too!

https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVXThss1z4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

captain hindsight

This is why the impersonation stuff is so interesting with LLMs -- If you ask chatGPT a question without a 'right' answer, and then tell it to embody someone you really want to ask that question to, you'll get a better answer with the impersonation. Now, is this the same phenomenon that causes people to lose their minds with the LLMs? Possibly. Is it really cool asking followup philosophy questions to the LLM Dalai Lama after reading his book? Yes.

Tell me more

I wonder if this is related to the agency problem[1] and the rise of short-sightedness from the ruling class.

If you're just trying to make as much money as possible this quarter and have no real care about building long-term value, why wouldn't you put agents in that mercilessly generate money at the expense of things like your brand and people?

I also wonder how many of the authors of the piece are at public vs private companies.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

Back to the spoils system [1] baby! Hope you have a lot of capital and a tent to camp the White house lawn while you wait for your appointment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

I can't wait to see how Chris Tucker plays it

always has been

Comp?

They are very concerned smaller shops are going to start eating their lunch since you can do what they do without hiring 1000000 people in the future

should have gone with innovationeers

interesting the article mentions his speeds dropped. I wonder if someone at support knows this but knows there's nothing they can really do to fix the issues?

It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.

I think it makes sense in the same way we blot out our awareness of 90% of the external stimuli -- There is just too much of it.

We have to choose what to 'deal with' and our capacity for that and awareness of it can change over time.

I also think this goes along with the author's concept of you're not trying since you can kind of snap into awareness and then just do those things sometimes.

Here's the other one that I just remembered -- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Stn8atEra7SMdPWyQoSLA

Yeah I love the idea of ancient peoples living in abundance, doing animism, showing up to party at the giant ancient structure every season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QfsSfhaDVY

Agree and good point -- do we know how long the Tepes took to build?

I think it pushed back when humans started building large structures together a few 1000 years. Oddly, there is no evidence of agriculture at Gobekli Tepe

https://www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/kxquwx/is_gobl...

This guy has a whole netflix show if you're so inclined

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHiLvirCb0