Whether or not he's right, Zitron just keeps repeating the same points over and over again at greater and greater length. This newsletter us 18,500 words long (with no sections or organization), and none of it is new.
Every time one of Zitron's posts come up I think of bitcoin or algorithmic social media feeds. Like those things, I understand people have strong opinions on whether or not it's good or bad for society.
But what's the endgame? Is it to persuade people not to use these things? Make them illegal? Create some other technology that makes them obsolete or non-functional?
Ed is insufferable. And for the most part, he is right. LLM’s are propping up the economy, but as a technology these models are not transformative but iterative. At the rate of investment, unless we reach AGI in the next 24 months, then the ROI will not pay off. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do if Ed is right. Maybe I need to move my retirement accounts out of index funds and into cash. But for now, it does seem the market is in a bit of collective psychosis. Sigh.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 24.8 ms ] threadBut what's the endgame? Is it to persuade people not to use these things? Make them illegal? Create some other technology that makes them obsolete or non-functional?