What is this? Did Bert dump Ernie and move in with a chick?

Many elderly people die in their sleep, listening to nothing but silence.

Same site = same problem as mentioned above.

But whatever, I have the vague gist of it now, cool.

This did what everything else before it did; made tech more accessible. You are going to see the most shit you have ever seen in your life. Can you make something good with it? Yes, with a lot of work. Can you make shit with it? More effortlessly than ever. So you're going to see an avalanche of shit, because thats what removing barriers to access does.

I'm more interested for the unsustainable spy network to fall so that these things are trapped in our GPUs. When everyone can craft some dumb ass local only app on demand it will actually be kind of cool. But right now with the tendrils of capitalists choking it the tech will not be put to good use. All the worst people in existence control it right now.

Cory Doctorow makes a similar point in that if the execs didn't show up for work not a whole lot would change. If the workers didn't show up nothing would get done. The C-Suite chuds deep down know this and hate it and LLMs are sold to these people under the false premise that they can be execs who matter because they can fire these pesky workers and replace them with AI which runs under the direction of the execs, making them relevant and saving money.

Of course, it's a crock of shit but the AI companies are happy to sell this dream.

Life in the era of the Business Idiot!

The Rust team adopting an LLM usage policy.

My internet service (Spectrum) just did an 'upgrade' today, and now a bunch of sites aren't working for me, including that blog site. So the context there is what, exactly?

I think a recent post on the Rust blog sums this up quite well:

Technical products no longer indicate effort

It used to be that if an open source project got a polished, well-tested, detailed PR, that indicated that there was someone on the other end who had put time, effort, and understanding into the PR. [...] With LLMs, none of these signals are reliable

they allow incompetent people to appear competent.

What would you say are some top examples of such?

On the flip side, it seems like there's a legion of examples of people using LLM tech sloppily, and getting busted or shamed for that. *shrug*

Well... A bit like pirates, the styling and fantasy is cool but when you think through the realities of it there's nothing romantic about them at all

yes. Maybe not some of the stories from antiquity, I think there's some interpretations of like St George and the Dragon where the dragon is meant to represent sin, but in the modern era they are near exclusively an allegory for greed.

This is the lore of the Shadowrun games. The dragons even do the billionaire thing where they create cultural narratives surrounding themselves that they are a necessary evil to stave off even worse evils from beyond.

No, because dragons are cool

Much of alchemy is supposed to be crypto-self development that would have fallen afoul of the church.

Donkeys

Sure, like the Desolation of Smaug. But that's a situation in which there's a buffer area and danger zone, and everyone but the dwarves know to stay the eff away.

A modern dragon would be more like a virus or cancer that infects everything around them, making it almost impossible to get away at times (or most of the time). Like an invasive weed network with its root system undermining everything below ground, while things seem 'normal' up above.

So, frankly, the dragon analogy kind of breaks down at some point.

What are dragons going to buy anyway? They don’t even wear clothes.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, many people today are cheering for the dragons.

I'm pretty sure in some dragon stories, the presence of the dragon warps and ruins the surrounding countryside. So dragon as metaphor for greedy rich person still works.

Heartily agree about the origin, altho modern 'dragons' additionally want to use their hoard to warp reality around them to conform to their vision & tastes.

Meanwhile, their wealth tends to provide huge insulating effects from reality, meaning it's super easy for them to go off track in to batshit-crazy territory. Or at least territory that's essentially toxic for most other life around them.

Look up the story of Fafnir and Andvari's ring. Its one of the first dragon stories which we have in full. It's part of Volsungasaga. The dwarf literally turns into a dragon because of his greed. Andvaranaut is the inspiration behind Tolkien's "One Ring", as well.

Precisely. If I remember correctly, it is speculated that since story tellers couldn't write anything to criticise the monarchy, they used allegories, like dragons.

That would completely defeat the purpose of Google

Looks like it only applies to Android phones and only the Google app search page (who uses that?) and though it looks like an AI button it (also?) returns search results.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-search-homepage-ai-3696476/