5. There are criticisms of LLMs that are much more plausible. They are built on a large scale expropriation of the intellectual commons. Demonstrably true! They involve a radical and extremely worrying derangement of power relations in favor of a tiny number of men with weird beliefs. Also true imo.
Super interesting thread on TTRPGs and AI
Henry Farrell
2. I believe that this style of thinking and interaction is both stupid and doomed. It doesn't accurately describe what LLMs are capable of these days, and it demands that people ignore the evidence before their eyes. If you are a programmer, you know Claude can code, and sometimes it can code well.
4. I think that it is important that critics of LLMs get this. The 'LLMs are useless which is terrible and everyone is using them which is also terrible' shtick contained contradictions even in the beginning, which took a lot of work to maintain . Now it contradicts people's lived experiences.
3. Insisting that this is not true, and demanding that anyone who says it is true be blocked and cast out into the outer darkness, where there shall be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, is a fantastic way of convincing others that you do not know what you are talking about.
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Laurent Carbonneau
Oh yeah, how are they doing? I haven't seen them in ages! aren't they ... uh [trying to remember the woke word for poly] ethnically Mongolian now?
Sam Hammond wrote an endorsement of Trump based on the idea that Kamala Harris would be a disaster for medical innovation
Your email finds me better, I grant, than you had feared, but worse, alas, than you had hoped
