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My point was that, as Martha Gellhorn once said about post-war Germany "No one is a nazi, no one ever was. There may have been some nazis in the next village". Even one's own pictures might get distorted by self exculpation.

Except those who lived those times, everybody got only to look at pictures, I'd argue.

If that would be the only view of said woman, I'd wholeheartedly agree to this point. The movie (and generally life) is so much more and more complex, with good and bad sides which all belong on the screen to be watched and criticized.

If only Brutalist had RSS. Especially the summaries page... a pity. Or maybe I'm too old school.

I built for a friend's law office a RAG proof of concept. It sucked. But it was there, so I could have claimed I vibe coded an entire open source legal solution right? But it still sucked, so no (and made me believe RAG is not a useful way at all for knowledge search).

I have the feeling this expectation loss is what triggered the current riots in Western Europe. I'm not talking about the platforms and actors which might be fanning and fueling them, but the trigger which I have seen at work at my kids or nephews - they don't see much hope they can rely on some income, on getting their own house, on feeding their own children. Of course they are young and easier influenced, and I might be biased myself, but I really believe they have less chances than what I had at their age. I won't tell them that though.

I use the AI in the "knowledge worker" way you described. However I still feel it's augmenting my work, because I don't ask or expect it to make decisions for me. I use it to gather sources, to criticize my ideas, to generate summaries targeted to people expectations, and so on. Yes of course it's gonna influence my work with their own biases, but I don't think it is that important - my own biases are otherwise still there...

The eternal way is: follow the money. Not politician declarations or poster designs. The money. I have some preconceptions about it - based on who could profit from a broken EU - but still, follow the money.

And it somehow worked out well for them, nowadays they got a quite captive voters population.

AI gets so much diluted by the most important discussions about gendering the toilets and who was first in some valley, so I'm not surprised it slips by without real insight. But to answer your political party concept: the LLM learned their decisions from our flawed decisions, it learned corruption and greedy actions and wrong decisions resulted from human emotions, so I'm honestly not sure what good policy results we can expect from an uncontrollable amplifier.

There was this hilarious scene in a hilarious movie: the bobsled team rehearsing the race in their bathtub (Cool Runnings, 1993). But for real: ski runners do that as well, and I guess in so many others places where there's a routine to learn by heart (katas in martial arts...).

The entire debate is, how exactly can it change. Because I see zero signs pointing towards the rosy future you mentioned, rather contrary. I only see the current AI overlords hoarding power, hoarding money, and the plebs fighting more and more for scraps - against each other or/and later in uprisings against those technofeudalists and their few selected minions. And when the AI gets advanced enough, I see less future even for the minions, and also less chances of the uprising winning against a robot army. Will the humans survive? Maybe, but after a violent culling. And not even that I see guaranteed, depending on the future alignment of the AGI (or whatever it will be called). But all this bleakness is based on today's inaction of the politics/people towards the bad actors, so I really hope we can still steer it away.

Contemporary.

Maybe it's what you meant, but let me underline that "local" does NOT mean under your control. As long it's with Microsoft, it will fall under the exactly same Cloud Act, so it can be shut off or copied over the pond on a whim.

It's not an or/or is it.