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I’m describing a world in which workers would gain ownership of the means of their automation, hardly tyrannical in my view.

‘Little tyrants’ is a pretty uncharitable characterization of farm workers who merely want to own the means of production and pass their land to the next generation

Not to say I agree w the original post, but *who profits* from agri-robots is an open question. It’s a mistake to assume that the spoils of automation will always and forever be enjoyed by the people and not primarily the ownership class if automation leads to further monopolization.

^fair!

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Yes, but the spoils of automation could be owned by a collective of family farmers, instead they’ll go to monopolies

This is imho rarely the arc of history, ‘freed up’ laborers are often cast aside, communities destroyed, left to rely on a woefully insufficient social safety net. We could use automation to transfer power to collectives instead of monopolies, but increasingly the spoils of automation go the the 1%

Those hundreds of humans would still require food regardless of whether they’re working on a farm, though it sounds like you’re suggesting they should just be eliminated in the name of…’efficiency’? Dark

Disagree

This is the last post in a good thread, but the one I feel LLM boosters most ignore: Business leaders are openly slathering to replace their human workers with tools that do something like their jobs, but at a level of quality they would never be allowed to produce.

I think many critics are also immensely frustrated by how the very real shortcomings of LLMs (shoddy research, misdiagnosis, plagiarism, etc.) are brushed aside because people value the cheap & shiny object over real expertise and accountability

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

How is this remotely legal?

IMHO considerably worse b/c model biases are not revealed or well understood

When you say ‘collect,’ do you mean merely as a search tool? Or are you also surrendering the reading/organizing/summarizing of said papers?

Imho, the point is not to obscure model bias by switching, the point is to understand model bias and thereby avoid it, not accentuate it. We cannot pretend any of these models are remotely objective, but outside of egregiously obvious examples (Grok glazing Elon), their biases seem hard to know.

I disagree, using an LLM surrenders both author voice and bias to the model. IMHO it’s more important that research be original, with the proof-of-thought and biases of the author intact. I suspect that volume at the expense of these things will not meaningfully move the ‘frontier of knowledge.’

We know those tools are useless, so no. This is my personal opinion, based on a familiar set of tropes, like an over reliance on certain structures, warmed over vocab, and the confidence of a first-year philosophy student. Many writers seem to be converging, imho, and I think it’s bad.

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I made a bingo card

Are you proud to sound like every other Claude user? And have you begun to think about surrendering both style and substance decisions to a model with unknown biases? Seems irresponsible

How are you wrestling with model bias in writing, not just vocab & structure but emphasis, prioritization? Imho heavy Claude users seem content copping the House style, presenting a deafening sameness of voice. ‘Artisinal’ preserves both the voice and the bias of the author, AI surrenders both.

This political moment poses a…unique challenge (I agree though)

this fucking piece of shit

I ask myself this question so often these days and yet I’m never 1000% sure

Last weekend.
This weekend.

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Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

Serious question: did people ‘not read’ those stories or were they *not shown them* by the algorithms? Your (imho) antipathy towards the average reader might be misplaced.

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

You’re blaming consumers when the discourse was being driven by CEOs, I think it’s a huge mistake to not see that discontent was engineered

I think you greatly discount the extent to which CEOs hated their workers getting more bargaining power and then flooded the airwaves with discontent. What you call consumer irrationality, I called deliberate misinfo. Imho *THAT* is the lesson we have not learned.