Is irony. While I was eating my breakfast, I tried to catch up on the blogs I follow. I didn't get far, because one of the first ones was this one from Charlie Stross. It was another one of those record-scratch moments when you just can't go on because of the discontinuity. Possibly my worst miss is that I completely discounted the profound social impact of LLMs (or so-called "AI"), not simply as a massive technology sector investment bubble and happy hunting ground for snake oil salesmen and grifters, but as a corrosive influence on population-level critical thinking. I should have seen it coming--I read Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason back in the 1980s--but I didn't recognize just how unable to see past the ELIZA illusion most people would prove to be. I'm ok with the AI/LLM bias, he's an author and I'm pretty sure they all feel as though they've been victimized/violated by the AI companies; and they probably have a point of some kind, though I don't think it's…
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