I really enjoyed this article about how LLMs “fool” people into believing they’re actually intelligent. I especially enjoyed this because at a corporate event, I got to see Oz the Mentalist who was incredible. He did literally every single one of the things mentioned in this article. Down to interviewing people before the show, but did it in this crazy sly way that didn’t make you suspicious. Anyway, for quite a while, I was genuinely dumb founded by how many intelligent people I knew were constantly spouting “wait til GPT-6 bro!” When I’d tell them LLMs are dumb and just fancy autocomplete. But I’ve been reading more and more and I realized two things. First, it’s great marketing but second, people are so hopeless these days, they’re hoping a rock we’ve tricked into doing math will eliminate the bad things in their lives. Spoiler: it wont.

Out of the Software Crisis

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

#ai

Man, I hate Reddit. Filled with a bunch of rent seekers who don’t want to do anything for themselves. Every time I post something, which is super rare anymore, I’m immediately greeted by morons who always think they know better than everyone else. And don’t dare suggest someone take the harder path in a situation. You’re an absolute monster if you don’t just affirm that one should always take the easy path. Ughhhh….

wtf does Saylor mean an AI can custody bitcoin? How the fuck is it going to do that?

We are too dependent on tech as a society. We have almost no resiliency when it doesn’t work. My only hope is that people start to realize this and start to unplug more.

The world today is filled with people who want credit (monetary and socially) for creation, but don’t do any of the actual work to create. Financiers, MBA’s, product managers, VC’s, “tech enthusiats”, people using AI to generate images and then calling it art, and so on. From a cursory perspective, this is very disheartening. Our culture adores the managerial class and practically worships successful money managers. But, the silver lining is that the bar has literally never been lower to be a successful craftsman. Learn a craft, apply it well, create value for people, and you’ll be ahead of 80% of the population, at least. Oh, and once you create that value, make sure you #stacksats to protect yourself 😉