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When "ai slop" became a concept, it mostly came into spaces where "human slop" had already been firmly established. Obvious ones like content scroll fodder. But also, there's slop …

This is not a complaint. I think your assessment of this result being as expected... but this is about the LLM equivalent of SEO becoming an area of interest

Is this cognitive dissonance, or is this just people being normal? You pursue business strategies as a profit maximizing business person concerned with outcomes for your company an…

≥jet engines have a market structure that's uniquely terrible for traditional free market societies. A lot of the theoretical concepts behind this... They need updating to account …

Apologies for the meta: I feel that our understanding of trust and antitrust, along with the legal and regulatory premises... Just isn't very useful in the 21st century. I understa…

I'm not sure that is the modern idea of education. As you can see in the linked example, it's there 200 years ago at the sunrise of universal and education. I'm sure it was there w…

There have been many wonderful ideas and concepts for education systems over the centuries. They have/had different, sometimes contradictory philosophies. Most fall short of their …

To me this feels like analogue for sentience, consciousness & intelligence. Our attempts at dissecting the mind. Which is the "true" us? Knowledge? Wisdom? The humanity of our expe…

This is a very interesting discovery. I'm fascinated by ancient economics. But... >The full apparatus of commercial civilization, operating without a theorist in sight. I don't get…

Hypocrisy is a form of corruption. Anthropic's IP was created by harvesting and "distilling" other people's IP. Copyrighted materials, and the commons... which they have essentiall…

The copyright questions are unanswerable in my opinion. That is, they cannot be answered by looking for an essential "truth." Reasoning by analogy in this case is not abstraction. …

A lot of the applications of Ai are going to have to go through "normal" innovation routes. Eg low-end disruption. I have already seen "Ai lawyer" at play here. A colleague of mine…

It's kind of worth reading. Not to learn about AI. But... it is an interesting/historic intersection of religion and technology. Side note: (a) This new pope is very good at "polit…

...you could also swap out with "rich people" or "all people," "governments." In fact, reading these sentences with ad-lib on the subject tends to give these sentences interestingl…

I think we have so many hangups about this subject that we ended up leaving it unexplored and misunderstood. Talent, drive, inherent traits interacting with learnable traits, learn…

This is a good approach. That said... It's hard to deny the romanticization and projection point above. Beer goggles can be a mind expanding POV, but you need to be aware of it or …

No. Not if the valuations and downstream effects of valuations are formulaic, which they often are.

Google might be jumping the gun here... and making an innovators dilemma type mistake. LLMs are an alternative to search engines, which endangers google's whole ad business. "AI mo…

Coding goodness is just "unevenly distributed." Irl, (a) different people's ways of working with ai are a million little islands and (b) bottlenecks vary enormously by coder and co…

>What people typically don’t do is look at why this is taking so long, and even more importantly: long duration does not automatically mean the problem originates there. To some ex…

Good point. Precise motives are hard to work out as a general rule. Ultimately, it often comes down to a decision that decision makers like or don't like for a confluence of reason…

Writing did exist in the americas. String writing certainly. More conventional forms also, to some degrees and in some times and places. Many of the ancient people's of Mesopotamia…

So... zero evidence doesn't mean zero existence. Often it just means lower density. Elamite, Sumerian, Akkadian and other languages of that region were written on clay... which len…

So... The "big idea" would be "a writing system that fully represents a language." Everything else can develop gradually. But... gradually doesn't necessarily mean generations. It …