Three (3) times today I have hopped on Mastodon and 3 (three) times I have seen a different version of exactly the same thing: a solid economic take on why the vampire squids hyping “AI” are terrible coupled to a wildly underthought to borderline incoherent philosophical/technical interpretation that the good critique didn’t even depend on. Twice this happened and then one more whole separate time.
I can’t come to dinner yet, babe, I’m pattern-matching that this is a tech hype bubble and then regurgitating the kinds of things people say about tech hype bubbles with only a symbolic-level understanding in order to own the LLMs.
I wish I wish I wish we could see a few more commentators able to say that (1) we are getting exploited, railroaded, and played by the usual forces of capital in a whole new way here – without coupling it to the, to me, extremely extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmeeeeeeeellllyyyyy bad/evil take that (2) the only real thing in the world is a kind of truth that physically resides in the heads of Homo sapiens.
“The tulip mania is an irrational speculative bubble that will collapse because tulips are not actually beautiful; beauty happens in the soul, you misguided fools, therefore tulips are actually very ugly, QED” I write in Antwerp in 1635.
You think I’m off on my weird hobbyhorse again but I assure you this is already doing big numbers on early modern Netherlandish Mastodon. All the most respected scholars of critical tulip studies are starring it.
@vruba Fighting LLMs with LLM behaviour, perfect.
@vruba the pervasive adherence to a concept of human exceptionalism that's fundamentally indistinguishable from dualism is so weird to me but the majority also claims to believe in imaginary friends in the sky, so… 
Think through your arguments before you hit send, you cowards.