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This is just a more asinine version of Great Man Theory, but in this case the great men are some very confident futurist dudes writing comments on the internet.

There’s a good number of nuclear power plants and nuclear submarines in operation, so yes, that’s technically true.

Oh yeah. I discovered this back in February. Faster and cheaper is better, because faster means you can focus.

Frenetic multitasking is for suckers.

Sounds like a culture problem. I’ve never had a team I lead not give a shit. Even if the project is dumb (some projects are dumb), there’s enough pride in competence and desire not to dump garbage on the people around you to ensure they at least want to try.

No.

Because it’s a bad faith argument that presupposes integrating someone else’s work into your algorithm is equivalent to me reading a book.

Your rule would be the right way to do all this. You could even have a mechanical royalty that applies by default where you can train on anything that hasn’t set rules and a preset rate.

Yes. It’s called the ELIZA Effect. It’s fascinating, and arguably the most dangerous thing about these models given how many people it seems to affect.

I understand why they built this. They probably should and this is probably the right way to do it.

And also yes, I’ve tried Dia and OpenAI’s thing and I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do with the feature.

And then it dawns on me what I really want is a modernized bookmarks system…

Uh huh.

It can’t be a coincidence that all the targets have been tech services that are likely to engage with them after the fact.

Had this gone after a bank or a government agency someone would be going to jail.

Yes. They will reach an agreement not to pursue RSI for “safety.” That RSI is utter nonsense in the first place will go unnoticed.

Yep. And the kicker is they are genuinely confused when all this lands badly.

Out of curiosity what book did you get burned on?

Wait, really?

As best I can tell, the problem is contained to kindle self publishing and the like, which were always unfiltered. And we buy plenty of new books.

I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media.

There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me.

I don’t think you could have made a similar argument about heavy trash tv watchers. They may have had less to talk about, you may have found them less interesting, but it didn’t literally alter their personalities.

We have a big problem.

Sure. But what’s the technical way or meet that requirement? Is there a specific method or is it just that they can but they don’t care because there’s no law?

Interesting. What ways? Suppose I wanted to call the governor and say “I have an answer to how to regulate these that solves the noise problem” what would we be asking for?

They’re not. You would see this with earlier models where after running too long (too much context) they’d start to derail. In a chatbot you’d give up. But these loops just keep going. Given they’re now reading and writing from the same place this can corrupt the other programs’ context as well.

Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.

Yep. This is my policy. Use whatever tools however they serve you, the standards do not change.

If someone makes a sloppy 100,000 line PR in a day the problem is not whether it was generated by Claude or frantically written using VIM and a mechanical keyboard.

It already happened. For a lot of people, social media has been replaced entirely by group chat.

Or even 30 second ads that don’t look like shit.

The technology is interesting as an element within the wider process of special effects, animation, and video games. The idea that you’re actually making a movie with the current products—and I’m a former indie filmmaker, I’d have a blast with this if it were real—is a fantasy.

Uh-huh. I have a little boy who just saw his first firetruck, and you can see the wheels turning in his head, because BIG RED TRUCK. He doesn't talk yet, but a seed has been planted.

Some people operate like little boys. They want the BIG RED TRUCK. They haven't considered that's it's really hard to park and gets 5MPG, or that their use cases don't involve fighting fires (for which they are not trained), but they want the big red truck so they can drive the big red truck.

Anyway, if you go the 5000 microservices route, you move all your problems from the application layer into networking and orchestration problems. Best of luck with that.

It’s also circumstantial.

Working remote during COVID sucked and felt unmoored.

Once I had a robust IRL social life and could go see some live music again, it was great.

It also depends if you live in tiny apartment or if you have a house with a dedicated space.

The same person can take to it depending on the circumstances.

Oh yeah. I did this in 2021. I got the list out of 1Pass and just did them in small batches. I hit a few that wouldn’t let you change but nothing important.

I had all the important stuff done in a week.

Yes, I would agree that privacy is important, that anonymity is valuable to the freedom of speech, and that OP is also right about the health of the web.

Which means we have a big problem.

Yeah, I really dislike this “Thing is has its Other Thing Moment.”

For starters, I what the hell does this mean?

But it’s also a style of reporting that treats the attention cycle as the thing that must be covered rather than the thing itself.

This doesn’t surprise me.

Set up whatever online portal or app you want. I’d prefer to just sign in and click a button.

If I’m picking up the phone or sending an email it’s because I have a weird problem and I need to talk to a person.

Well there’s a lot of middle ground between “don’t use AI” and “generate everything, exclusively.”

When the bill for the latter lands with a heavy thud, moderation and common sense start to look like a pretty good idea.

Correct. If they were doing this with Gutenberg/Smithsonian/some library so there's both a public archive and training the language model, it wouldn't have the ick factor.

Thank you. Some days I feel like I’m going crazy.

I use plenty of AI. As best I can tell just believing my own eyes, everything is stagnant except the prices.

Which is fine… but the boosters shout “OMG EVERYTHING IS CHANGED YOU ARE BEHIND AND ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES ARE INVALID NOW” every Tuesday.