stealing thoughts

On the last Friday of each month I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “In ages past they stole the commons so you had to work for them to live. Then you had to work for a wage, so they stole your wages and labor. Now they steal your thoughts and ideas to lease them back to you on subscription. They are thieves of not only wealth and power, but of our creativity, our histories, and our potential.” —@kalshann — “I was trying to work out yesterday why LLM users annoy me so much and it came back to my basic notion of rudeness: impolite behaviour stems from assuming that your time is worth more than other people’s. If someone doesn’t bother to write coherent words in a message to you so that they can type faster at the cost of your comprehension speed, they’re trading your time for theirs and that’s rude. If someone uses an LLM to create more words from fewer ideas, that saves them time in careful expression at the…