I don’t think every terrible Trump decision can be laid at Putin’s feet.

There are plenty of other folks pulling the strings too.

Looks like typed as hyphens, and LLMs tend to produce emdashes.

I think the intro/bullet point/conclusion format is pretty common among humans.

I don’t see it, it doesn’t seem tonally consistent with the LLMs. Is it just because he put bullet points or something? Because it’s slightly longer than normal?

I mean, it’s confirming what folks pretty much already knew and won’t make a dent in the cringe corporate culture… I guess it’s at least somewhat nice to see it more formally affirmed, but on the other hand it could be even more depressing that you were right all along and it doesn’t even matter…

Problem as evidenced by a lot of outsourcing success is that the people cutting the checks are not fazed by broken software.

This applies to a lot of industries where laypeople are at the mercy of ‘expertise’, a lot of folks doing things like HVAC or auto mechanics are actually not that good, and while they are the bane of the good HVAC and mechanics, they manage to secure market share just fine. Yes, there are mechanics that have crappier mechanics to thank for them having some stuff to fix, but the crappy mechanics can do easy stuff fine and lots of people driving with something busted because the mechanic couldn’t figure it out and told the customer “yeah, it actually is normal for it to be that way”.

I’ve heard it before…

And now we have LLMs…

Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their supervisors as more charismatic and “visionary,” but also displayed lower scores on a portion of the study that tested analytic thinking, cognitive reflection and fluid intelligence.

Guess which workers the supervisors like and want to see more and promote and which ones they really want to get rid of?

BTW, AI text also is interesting to evaluate in this context.

The problem was that things started breaking at scale under the gold standard. The great depression happened under the gold standard, and financial institutions had no ability to do anything to fix the mass hysteria.

Yes, the house as an investment vehicle rather than a house is a problem, but it’s not because of fiat currency per se. The population density increasing under a capitalistic system pretty much guarantees that housing becomes a speculative asset regardless of the specifics of the currency system.

Meanwhile BTC has been wildly unpredictable and when it’s at its most hyped, massively deflationary which is also a terrible thing.

We only do it in front of our kids to make them cringe

Given how much they hate being “woke”, does that mean “sleepy Joe” was actually a compliment?

Which is the whole think of enshitification. Doing something that produces actual value for society? That’s nice, might be somewhat rewarded. Manage to exploit whatever you have done to extract revenue any possible exploitative way? That’s going to be way more rewarded.

While it’s true that some demand is related, the vast vast majority of the spend is speculative on what AI might be and assuming that if it manages to be the thing of their dreams, it will demand exponentially more resources than the current LLM slop.

They are spending this money without clear indication that the demand they want is there. For example, OpenAI at one point claimed that, by now, businesses would be paying them $50k/year for a single ‘instance’ of LLM, good for equivalent to one human headcount.

They are currently betting that at some point, they’ll effectively fix the lack of actual reasoning (a number of AI enthusiasts will claim that AI can have an entirely distinct thing from any reasoning we have ever known but still call it reasoning, which is a pretty stupid cop out). And/or they’ll translate this reliably to robotics (so far this has ended up being pretty elusive, investors assumed the same fake language that passes for executive-speak means it could apply to menial manual labor, but it hasn’t worked yet).

But yeah, refraining from using these services would deflate the expectations more quickly, enough people toying around with it sparks the imagination of what the execs think they can get for it…

Of course, not just art, the flood of video and text content that just makes so much of the internet even more useless and unfulfilling than it already was…

I guess the good news is that the youtube format stuff being pretty much ruined has broke me of the habit of consuming it more than I should and back to actually decent content…

I thought maybe it was some at least vague acknowledgement of the LLMs need to get better to stop being called slop…

Nope, it was that society needs to get over it… I don’t understand why he thought that would be the approach to try to endear AI with the general populace…

Not only didn’t need them. They are considered a tactical liability.

For the resources to build a battleship, they o could build a couple of cruisers. In aggregate those would be more flexible, have better survivability, and have more offensive capability

It is a stupid bloated vessel for the sake of some twisted sense of superficial extravagant while in truth being a subpar waste of a bunch of people’s money. So I guess maybe it is worthy of being named Trump class.

One thing is that America hasn’t given a new presidency to the same party that held the office since the 1980s, at there’s already a tendency to waffle back and forth.

Trump got through the GOP primaries by virtue of energizing the racist hateful folks that people like McCain famously tried to talk down.

With the general election, people were miffed about Bernie, polling told them they could safely sit it out and Trump would still lose, and frankly people didn’t think Trump would be that terrible, even if they didn’t like him.

His first term made us a laughing stock and inflicted injustice at the border, but was mostly milquetoast otherwise until the pandemic, which tanked any chance at the election

Then various things contributed to a terrible economy with Biden, so people voted for “different”, and hey, Trump was not great but, pandemic aside, domestic situation wasn’t so bad…

So now here we are, an administration totally off the leash…

Yes, the government that was accused of abducting a family is in the right, because that same government says they are treating that family well, and no, no one is allowed to independently verify that, but obviously you have every reason to take our word for it

Mr. Rubio’s order cited the origins of serif typefaces in Roman antiquity.

So, it’s best because it has “Roman” in the name. And if they like “Roman” salutes, clearly they want “Roman” fonts too.

Once upon a time, if you thought some electronic device was speaking directly to you, it was a pretty strong sign of schizophrenia.

Soon it’s just going to be techbro generative AI making supremely targeted ads.