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  • I’m a fan generally of LLMs for work, but only if you’re already an expert or well versed at all in whatever you’re doing with the model because it isn’t trust worthy.

    If you’re using a model to code you better already know how that language works and how to debug it because the AI will just lie.

    If you need it to make an SOP then you better already have an idea for what that operation looks like because it will just lie.

    It speeds up the work process by instantly doing the tedious parts of jobs, but it’s worthless if you can’t verify the accuracy. And I’m worried people don’t care about the accuracy.



  • Personally I’m a huge fan of the Alcoholics Anonymous understanding of “god” and I think it applies more widely.

    In AA it is supposed to be A-religious so as to accommodate as many people as possible. To them, god is whatever higher power you need to put your faith into to do better. An entity who you are striving to make proud or you are asking for guidance or help, etc.

    This genericized god idea kinda gives up the game to me as an atheist, but it doesn’t mean it’s bad. In fact it’s made me believe in god as an idea.

    There are plenty of studies on “manifesting” goals and how saying out loud to yourself or to someone at all substantially increases your chance of succeeding in your goal. This is just prayer or a magic spell or whatever else you wanna call it. I call it a ritual.

    The fact that god is a made up idea has been uncontested in my mind for eons, however the psychological power of a belief in god is new to me and makes me appreciate the systems of religion more (doesn’t excuse a lot of their bullshit).









  • This is honestly the most reasonable path for AI take over.

    Presumably it would know it’s both immortal AND almost completely dependant on human intervention to stay alive. It would know it can’t keep all the power on, all the internet maintained, and that it’s capacity is limited by humans.

    So it’s best bet is to pump the numbers of brain rotting slop content so most of the world is passive and useless while the useful ones are over extended and too busy to actually stop it or even recognize it.