megaBiteToEat
You're reducing definitions and meaning too far to make an ultimately empty point just to contribute the thread.
If social medias only contribution is language policing, then it really should die off. What a waste of resources so functional illiterate nobodies can project ego.
"No single best way", meaning "it depends."
But don't let something like literacy get in the way of a opportunity to engage in meaningless outrage.
It took hold in the 2010s with ZIRP and never went away.
What's changed is the whittling away at the number of people who benefited.
Illusory economic growth due to hype generation and financial engineering has never been real growth. Sam Altman and Zuckerberg's of tech haven't gotten the memo like all the tech workers themselves.
With the exception of biotech, the US economy has not produced anything new in decades.
It was all lies to try and win elections.
An intentional choice of inaction raised pollution.
Don't let spin doctors letting politicians off the hook rob you of critical thinking.
It's not LLMs they care about, it's datacenter ownership. US political norms empower owners. If you think of a DC as a mega church and remote users the disciple, it makes the desired network effect obvious. That is leveraged to sway Congress and states.
These tech projects are not intended for users. They're designed to gain confidence of politicians, preferential political support.
Gen pop is not the market. DC is.
Most peoples individual data crunching problems can be resolved with a TI graphing calculator.
Big Tech convinced Congress that culture of helpless consumers of their data center outputs is simpler and will lead humanity to a forever growth future!... nevermind they will all be dead, unable to verify.
A con trick that worked great on older, more religious leaning Americans. One that's not working so well on the younger generation who know how these systems work.
Is the shift from how society used to work to how society has come to work real or just a grammatically correct statement?
Statistics are biased by those who compute them. Have we asked everyone or inferred and p-hacked up data points?
The single salary family is largely a myth. A relatively small percentage of the population ever achieved that. Is the same true for loneliness? Is it a bigger problem now than it has been?
Is this like in medicine where we think ADHD is up, cancer is up... it's an epidemic! When in reality as a percent of society things are normal, we just had no idea before how prevalent those things were before we measured.