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While this is true of course, it is easy for knowledge workers to say this when we aren't the ones pounding in nails all day.

We speak as if the houses just build themselves and we just have to press these buttons in the right combination like software.

Everyone involved basically has better options than to build more housing so it should be no surprise we have a shortage.

What can one really comment about art though? "That is beautiful" or "That is shit".

I love art but could care less about the field of art criticism.

I use to have a geocities personal site on the old internet and it is not like anyone ever looked at that either.

The real difference is I don't remember anyone caring about the number of myspace followers a person had. It only mattered who was in your top 6 or however many it was in your top list. Obviously, that is because there was no money to be made with having connections to people you didn't know.

I can't believe people think this guy is anything other than utterly full of shit and a fraud.

That quote is totally moronic as usual.

I would even say I don't want to read anything by anyone who thinks Zizek has anything interesting to say. Instant block or else I may become infected by the stupidity.

Obviously, more people are going to read it.

It is like putting a stupid face on your youtube video to show how shocked and amazed you are at the content.

Journalist are ultimately extremely overrated in 2024.

I go out of my way to not consume news outside what happens to cross my way because of financial markets.

What exactly do you think I am missing that is so important? Journalist by large produce complete nonsense in 2024. Journalist in 2024 are a massive net negative and would be much better served doing something productive, like selling apples on the street.

IMO there is no hope. We have a culture that values college degrees, no matter how useless, as some kind of high moral good.

To take away student loans then is a form of evil.

First, you would have to ban discrimination against people without college degrees.

You can't discriminate against people without college degrees and then complain college degrees are expensive lol.

I think Chomsky's idea that LLM's are a form of automated plagiarism is the best description if we think of plagiarism in a neutral sense and not a highly negative sense.

If we think in terms of automated plagiarism, no one can complain that the model doesn't produce original ideas.

Automated plagiarism could have many uses but it is obviously stupid to expect an original idea from plagiarism. We wouldn't complain the model can't reproduce things it hasn't seen before if we think in terms of plagiarism.

We need a word/concept for technology that has just slightly more utility than a Minsky/Shannon's useless machine but that small amount of utility obfuscates the actual uselessness of the technology.

I hate Microsoft products in general but Excel is just good. It is not one feature but the whole package as a system.

It is basically the opposite of most MS products. There is not one feature that stands out as to why I hate Word, it is the summation of all the little things I hate about it that is the issue.