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maybe two disclaimers on this comment. the second for reading about the bottle investigation

I see you value productivity. Productivity to what purpose?

> No, the human was never a core factor. People who enjoy a van Gogh - or any other work - primarily do so because it has particular qualities they appreciate

I don't follow. How about the 20k year old cave paintings in Lascaux? Are you saying "What you appreciate about it isn't the craft, or the story and history behind it; you care about only some of it's qualities?"

Plus I don’t think history plays this a-to-b. Counter examples are out there, Ottoman empire, Assyrian empire, Spartans.

I appreciate you putting words to the astro-turfing. two areas llms have helped me are in (i) giving me work and (ii) learning how people in my life repeat what they hear from “knowledgeable” people. And not saying the voices proselytizing llms aren’t knowledgeable but I bet there’s an agenda behind their words (ie “i have something powerful” and “give me money!)

Amazing that the new stadium has less capacity too

It’s tough to take your response seriously with loose thinking like “The point is the almost sexual release you get from (2).”

Upon further reading, you use emotional language too - “witch-hunt” and “hysteria”.

Are these witch-hunts? And can you tell if people over the internet are nearing sexual release?

Are you responding to emotional language and other’s loose thinking with your own?

far be it for me to question your prophetic capacities. i wonder, do you have any historical examples or logic-based arguments that our doom of nigh?

> Individual action means absolutely nothing.

You may want to view action and sphere of influence. Does an individual have international or national influence? Probably not. How about within their community, home, or person? Probably, yes.

I want a good society and I think that’s will be made up of good individuals making individual action. So to me, this all starts at home with the individual’s sphere of influence.

It makes me wonder about the power of religious zealots being simply having read a book, considered profound, many times. And I’m curious about which book I would choose.

> Christmas is devoted to reading books we all know perfectly well.

Ha, this seems counterfactual to how the americans (traveling around recently and I don’t remember seeing anyone with a book open).

> Universities have pushed post-modernism since the 60s which is the precursor for the deprecation of truth.

Call me crazy, but the situation may be more nuanced than this (and your next statement). For example, all universities embraced post-modernism? Also, universities are the arbiter for truth? If so, which universities and which truths? Or is it the transcendental Truth all universities gave out? Lastly, post-modernist ideas on media or some other part of culture?

Have ye any citations?

are there any use cases, aside from code generation and formatting, where fine-tuning consistently useful?

The market hype is real. Check-signers at businesses expect LLMs to have the ability the AI CEOs talk about in their interviews and conferences but don’t exist (and are no where near existing).

I’m confused. If 50% of the revenue goes to inference, that means the other 50% goes into research?