So the assumption is that it’s a Russian drone? Article doesn’t say.

I have to walk out of here alone

Wow it’s CEO doc/bio season. Liz, Sam, Elon.

The words “Slop” and “Fascist”. At least for the 2024+ edition.

Of course it’s derivative, but just like any tool, the user plays a huge role in the output. You just work with it. It can do lots of things and it can’t do lots of things. Am I gonna sell anything I make with it? Probably not. I use it to help myself and to prototype things really fast.

No bad news for me because it doesn’t pertain to me. Sorry you can’t get AI to work for you. Keep trying! I’ve used AI to build things for me that are totally useful. I’m not selling anything. It’s a tool. It can build full web apps. I’m not talking SaaS. Just simple things. And I’ve learned along the way as well. It’s all about how you use it.

No, LLM’s CAN replace cognitive work. You don’t have to give up all your thinking to an LLM. Think about what you want. Create very specific instructions. Review the output. Challenge it. Refine. Ask questions. Make decisions. Teach it something. It’s a tool. It doesn’t have to replace your brain.

Calculators replace cognitive work. Are you anti-calculator?

I absolutely could not build a web app on my own from scratch and at this point in my life I do not have the time to learn how.

There’s absolutely no doubt that AI democratizes many capabilities that people otherwise would not possess, whether the output is “slop” or not. Sometimes you just want to quickly prototype something. Doesn’t have to be perfect. You can do that in minutes to hours. If you like it, pay somebody to do it right, or AI may even be able to do it right depending on the task.

No. There’s no way I could build a full web app on my own in under a day. AI enables me to do that. You’re basing your whole opinion about AI solely on how capitalism is leveraging it. There is a lot of great potential with AI. Medical fields. Non-profit space. The list goes on.

You can resist as much as you want but technology and big business are going to keep moving whether we like it or not. Unless we all decide to boycott, which we are too comfortable to do, there is no stopping capitalism. So yes, in much of the business world, if you don’t get comfortable with AI, you will fall behind.

That doesn’t mean you have to do anything with AI, tho. If you never learned to use a computer, or Excel, you fell behind in many business settings. Doesn’t mean you have to learn computers.

LLM’s are not the end all be all. There will be another big AI boom at some point in the future and if it’s derivative of LLM’s you may not have the experience to use the new tech as well as others who are well versed with AI. Isn’t good or bad. It’s just how you wanna live your life. Make a living in spaces that don’t require AI.

Pull out of the stock market. Buy gold. Buy stocks when somebody smart says we’re officially in a recession. Sell stocks when people start going back to Whole Foods, or whatever your fancy grocery chain is. This is not real advice. I’m not a finance person.

Thats the stupidest idea I’ve heard in a long time.

And the Tesla just let it happen.

I can’t help but think all the tangentially positive stuff coming out about Ozempic is just marketing.

So they could play with their toys!

The article bases the discovery on an assumption that I guess I’m unfamiliar with, that shrooms make your brain chaotic. In my experience, shrooms just change the way I am perceiving things. Part of the affect is that it dulls the some of the function in your brain to know what is novel and what is well understood. So it makes sense that you would be more engaged with the world around you if everything is new.

I’m not sure why this has to be said. You’re experiencing a completely altered reality. How could you not be in the moment? That’s like saying visiting a new place makes you more present.

This was always the case. Alternate routes were inevitable.

Maybe those fortunate enough to be poisoned with Lithium can extract it and sell it for the production of batteries.

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