One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before

But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism

There’s a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately… The displaced workers aren’t the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits

Not slightly. We’re already having problems with food and water in even “first world” countries… Just little hiccups before a true systematic failure

The disasters will get worse and way more common, but those aren’t where the true horrors will be. It’ll be the disease, conflict, and mass starvation

We could certainly overcome it. Humans are very adaptable… But it’s already starting, and we aren’t doing anything. We can’t even organize enough to agree we should do anything at all to save ourselves

So things will get horrific. It could take billions of dead to figure out a new way to live at this rate. Every lesson will be learned though desperation. And then one day, we’d reach that new worse normal

But if we got our act together and started actually preparing, it wouldn’t be bad. Scary and hard, but we’d get hope back. We’d regain connection to each other, and be united against an outside enemy. We’d share a dream of bringing the green back. We

We could come together pretty quickly once we accepted the necessary sacrifice of the old ways of living… But each day it progresses and we do nothing. It’s depressing and terrifying, but the truth can’t be ignored anymore

It’s how llms work… The points in vector space are basically tokens. The distance is correlated to aspects of things/concepts

So you can use geometry to search the vector space and get very good results, it’s mainly used to store/index information for later retrieval

I’ve noticed things getting worse personally. My main complaint is that people have started being much less charitable readers… A lot of people jump to conclusions that make me think “when the hell did I say any of that?”

I’ve mostly just stopped replying at this point, no amount of clarification seems to help with these people, they’re just itching for a fight

It’s definitely a minority, but it’s got me posting a lot less

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I’m going to laugh my ass off