thuuuomas

RTO arguments repurposed to argue against AI. Mystical woo in a quarter zip.

> In the end, what matters is whether something fulfills its purpose, not how it does it.

Monkey's paw curls

Employees are just another way to get things done. Ripe for disruption!

It’s not just from industrial sources. Many flame retardants are “forever chemicals” & are often wantonly dumped by fire departments, Air Force bases, etc.

Why do you think that is?

Is there any evidence the books are truly "destroyed" & not merely "disassembled"?

It's common practice to cut the spine & binding off a book, scan the loose pages, & drop the rubber-banded loose pages in a box somewhere. The book still exists, just without its binding.

Your neighborhood examples are on an incomparably smaller scale than Meta et al.

It’s much easier to disregard the human cost of decisions when you are separated from said humans by thousands of miles & billions of dollars.

Redundancy is robustness is expensive.

Why should IP persist in a world of “intelligence too cheap to meter”?

> a characteristic that leads to a propensity for AI

A smoldering sense of inadequacy compels use of the adequacy machine

Do you use Grok multiple times per day? Is Grok solving Erdos problems?

Why would they sell it for less when they could sell it for more?

We’re witnessing “American exceptionalism” transform from a brash claim to a whiny demand in real time.

> I think you won’t get [cathedral],..

> even if you do get [cathedral], [bazar] will run circles around you…

Because it’s hooked up to a microphone in your kitchen & your kid is arguing with you about what lunch they want & they say “Hey [agent], what day is pizza day at [school]?”

Tell me, is the deployment of that famous talking sand at all resource-constrained?

We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.

In a phrase: Worse Is Better

My concern with something like this is content marketing or other forms of surreptitious advertising.

Will you clearly indicate “boosted” authors/publishers/pieces?

> Corporations and governments are made of actual people.

Hand-waving away the complex incentives these superhuman structures follow & impose.

Yeah, it's on codeberg https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel

Glad we agree that the “builder” without craft is just looking for the nearest exit.

In the United States, the working poor are considered deserving of their burdens in an immutable, moralizing, Calvinist way. “They make bad choices.” “They have bad culture.” “They have bad genes.”

Today’s public benchmarks are yesterday’s training data.

I cannot understand this prideful resentment of theory common among self-described practitioners.

Even if existing theory is inadequate, would an operating theory not be beneficial?

Or is the mystique combined with guess&check drudgery job security?

> If you like it or it makes you feel something, that's all that matters.

You’re right!

> Even jazz uses 6-2-5-1's over and over.

You’re not even wrong! I wonder if jazz does anything else besides that?

A major floodplain in Michigan has a similar problem with dioxin contamination.

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Fold...

I’m sure you’re extremely smart to see thru the longhoused BS, but your jargon is so tedious, your unprompted selfishness so juvenile.

In another world, macros could have filled the role that programmable yaml fills today.

You’re narrowly addressing LLM use cases & omitting the most problematic one - LLMs as search engine replacements.

I tire of this disingenuous comparison. The failure modes of (experienced, professional) humans are vastly different than the failure modes of LLMs. How many coworkers do you have that frequently, wildly hallucinate while still performing effectively? Furthermore, (even experienced, professional) humans are known to be fallible & are treated as such. No matter how many gentle reminders the informed give the enraptured, LLMs will continue to be treated as oracles by a great many people, to the detriment of their application.