DJP

I think we’re hitting the long run

The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence

Article: www.ft.com/content/3474...

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The kids are alright

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LLM browser with my credentials: what can go wrong?

I think the additional nuance is that these two sets of statements could also be true:

1. LLMs have real-world use cases that provide business value

2. Making a foundational model is not a good business

Two girls fighting meme with guy in the background Two girls: X, Truth Social Guy: Bluesky

We're sitting pretty

Shows whether someone can tell the difference between substance and superficiality, which is telling

I think it’s important to note that some proposals to replace humans with LLMs is just degrading service

See government workers being cut and replaced with chatbots

The qualitative difference with other automation technology is that the end user might prefer it

Attribution theory personified

Don’t forget the tech oligarchs

Friendster had more legs. More like Google+ now

Can’t get “basketball reasons” twice

But this may have been the only way to fulfill the TSLAQ prophecy

It’s amazing how far presidential norms got us because it seems that’s what kept things from falling apart

Agreed that campaign finance reform won’t be easy. I think the issue with simply making it more expensive is that it can still be lucrative

For example, increase in Tesla stock price and future SpaceX contracts outweighs ~$300M in political contributions

In a world with this much wealth inequality, doesn’t this just increase the cost of playing the game?

Seems like the rules need to be amended altogether

Clearly nowhere to go but up

The silver lining of the egregious mingling of wealth and politics may be enough public outrage for actual campaign finance reform

Thing is you get people arguing that Twitter is better now, so seems like more than one

It’s wild that people saw his Twitter (mis)management and thought it should be applied elsewhere

If you say this enough times, both sides understand what’s being said without conflict (polite unsubscribe)

I think stock price will collapse as demand collapses. It’s hard to do a Nazi salute and still sell cars to the people who want to buy EVs

Cutting incentives with new administration doesn’t help either

The value prop of Threads was pre-Musk Twitter. Now with Zuck bending the knee, there’s an exodus of the early adopters

Poverty of character or spirit

I guess the counterintuitive part is that gaining wealth doesn’t make you any less insecure

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In a world where machine learning is commoditized, tastemaking becomes differentiating

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

The thing about companies that depart entirely from fundamentals is that a correction can happen suddenly and swiftly

Market has been irrational for way longer than I expected though

RIP TeslaCharts 🫡

I deleted Instagram recently. I’ll try Pixelfed, but if it’s too much like Mastodon, I might have trouble adopting

Might need something closer to Bluesky