What’s sad is that tuition goes up a few significant percentage points over inflation every year and has for decades.

College is the initiation of citizenry as cash cows for the extractive capitalist system.

I guess the conclusion that “universities that exploit their students are in the same power structure as corporations that exploit their customers and employees” is unacceptable to you?

The system is fractally corrupt.

• a bluetooth remote if you don’t want a really long cable

Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I’m curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn’t prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?

My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can’t really tell if someone’s going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I’d be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.

Explain to me how it’s better than you learning to analyze your own work from a formulaic perspective?

Everytime you choose to use AI, you are choosing NOT to develop an ability of your own. Sometimes, that’s an ability that just tedious to use, other times it might be something you obviously need to do yourself, yet others the ability might be something with a tangential utility you haven’t recognized.

An analogy might be reading music exclusively. Great, now you can play a wide range of music–indisputably beneficial!–but the cost of developing your own ear.

Hm. Would an old smart phone do in a pinch as a replacement roku?

It’s great news. The only hope for these companies is getting to monopoly enshittification before investors give up. This shows that timeline might be impossibly long.

I’m thinking of getting a subscription and burning tokens out of spite.

I’m horrrfied that an LLM is your writing coach.

Servile Apologia for Your Wealthy Masters doesn’t have quite the same mass appeal as a title as The Economist does, does it?

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams

Great point! This contributes greatly to the conversation–and that matters!

Maybe it’s a younger generation thing where anything before 2000 is “rock”. There’s been a lot of love for 1980s new wave, tho, so I doubt that’s it.

Personally, as a middle-aged man raise on classic rock, I’m sick of it, largely because everyone everywhere around the world wants to be a rock band. Think I’m exploring French music, it turns into rock. Think I’m exploring Argentine music, it turns into rock. Fuck off.

Being socially significant is one way people deal with a fear of death; also good for a sense of meaninglessness.

Been thinking the same about gas prices, tbh…

But I think the problem is that everything is oligopoly now, and everybody’s locked into a declining system. There’s no place to put money but real estate.

Yes, there’s certainly money to be made; but the same could be said for the .com bubble too. Bubbles are about wild overvaluationr, and the valuations have no bearing to reality.

Why don’t you think it’ll pop? Most signs are pointing to a massive bubble, and the most damning indicator is people are choosing to hire programmers again once they start paying the true cost of their tokens.

And there is an accelerating tech debt that AI can’t fix.

Let’s put Zuckerberg in a swan-neck jar to see if mistakes continue to spontaneously generate.

This video will explain both the joke and why you never play this type of game.

https://youtu.be/34RPwDfLpKg

The concept of war crimes was just a passing fad. Buckle up, humanity.