My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”
How long did we kick the foundations out of the US dollar when we got rid of the gold standard, and just let it float on speculation and feelings? What, 60-70 years now?
How long has the stock market existed on the whims of people’s feelings over cold hard statistics and long-term analysis?
Markets have been ignoring reality for many decades.
So, he became a biological machine to treat people like machines. Sounds like nothing was learned.
While there may be some truth to this, it completely ignores the cause of the BJ to begin with. It was in fact a rebellion by the people against those tools.
I think his point is that Dune is full of unreliable narrators, and history is written by the victors. Why do we take the Butlerian Jihad at face value? Because other rich elite houses retell the same story and enforce the same rules?
Or maybe the technology really did go too far, but the result was an massive, massive overcorrection that put humanity into another Dark Age.
I don’t think it can simply be repurposed for liberation, that’s a naive interpretation that ignores all of the actual ways in which the current implementations of AI work.
LLMs are a tool, and all tools can be repurposed or repossessed. Open source models and LLM tools are everywhere. Pretending that ChatGPT and other corporate models are the only ones out there are exactly what the corpofacists in power want you to believe.
By ignoring this technology and sticking our fingers in our ears, we are allowing them to reshape out the technology works, instead of molding it for our own purposes. It’s not going to go away, and thinking that is just as foolish as believing the Internet is a fad.
Are parts of it overhyped and overblown? Sure. Rich assholes have a knack for taking some concept and hyping it up to a million and under-delivering. But, the technology is still promising enough that it’s worth exploring where it can be beneficial, and it’s new enough that we can make sure we become a part of the design.
Disgusting AI-generated add for merch halfway through.
The negative preconceived notion bias is really not helping matters.
I’ve been using DDG for a bit, and honestly, it’s kinda garbage. They are just borrowing data from Bing, and it shows.
It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.