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I had Zuck once create a ticket against me on the padding of a button because it was on one of his pet projects.

In the middle of the night. During peak Cambridge Analytica scandal times.

I question his priorities.


LLMs are killing open source just like they're killing online discussion forums.

It's heartbreaking, my two favorite things about the internet are dying off because human interaction can't outscale AI slop.


And most social media, and blogs.

Newspapers are adopting it too, so soon we may see slop dominate even high brow publications.

Feels like a huge shift in human intellectual capabilities. Honestly quite worrying, I don’t think it’s a Luddite position to say that removing writing is removing thinking.


Great knot and amazing site. It has a distinct "old internet" feel to it, and I mean that as nothing but a compliment. I miss those days, pre platforms capturing everything and making us angry at each other for their engagement metrics.

But if you eat food, I don't risk choking. They want us to take the risk for their reward.

But if I drive a car, You do run the risk of getting ran over. We can come up with any number of analogies of varying rightness and wrongness here.

And then there's a whole truckload of case law about liability that comes into play.

We haven't yet written those laws for "AI."


What do you have in mind?

You're paying for their services to collect reward for yourself, but also deciding your own risk/reward when choosing e.g. how much access to grant Claude for any given task.

I guess there's the case where the more capable Claude is, the more someone else can use it to find vulns in your services while Anthropic collects their subscription money? But that is mitigable risk that you shipped regardless of what Anthropic is doing.


This is risk to us and reward for them though.

Exactly. Though with inference cost they're still only making money on enterprise use.

Because we're all paying for LLM access for shits and giggles, and not because we're getting actual value from it.

I don't care why you pay for LLM access, it's still spamming my online forums and codebases.

LLMs don't spam on their own. Take it up with people who wield them.

They kinda do though, in that instances have been observed to send unrequited messages even when the person/people in charge of some account didn't expressly ask the models to do so.

For my own use of LLMs, I do try to avoid anything which I know has a risk the artefacts they produce may end up DoSing or spamming, and I've avoided the OpenClaw-type pattern for a broader range of reasons of which this is simply one tiny part, but I'm not absolutely confident I could avoid this even in the code coming out of the free tier of the web chat interfaces except by checking every single line of output every single time.


Nah, it's the technology's fault for enabling it.

Many companies would say that's the best kind of risk-reward balance. For them, anyway.

> The oil is on Alaska/Norway's land

These AI companies are on American land.


In the case of Alaska, the oil is literally on land owned by the State of Alaska (as in, the titleholder of the land is the state itself), and the rights to oil extraction is leased by the state to oil companies.

By contrast, data centers are generally going to be on land owned by the operator, and corporate offices are either owned by the company or leased to the company by some commercial real estate operator you've probably never heard of. In neither sense are they on land owned by any local, state, or federal government.


The sovereign entity granting said private ownership is the state. It is privately owned only insofar as the state wills it.

> It is privately owned only insofar as the state wills it.

you mean as the people/voters wills it. Private ownership of land is pretty sacred law in the US, I don't see those laws being changed any time soon. Even logical things like the concept of eminent domain is very controversial.


Holy shit a realpolitiker. There is a God called "state" that WILLS the laws. Only by the power of prayer can one communicate with the sovereign, who whimsically discards centuries long legal traditions because a midwit read Schmitt or something.

The funny thing about data is... it can move across borders a lot better than oil deposits...

Data can.

Data centers at scale, less so.

But I suppose that's why Altman and Musk have been cozying up to autocratic Middle Eastern regimes and dreaming about AI in space...


Who said anything about the government shoveling in money?

Usually to "own" something requires to spend money to get it.

The government gets half my paycheck without buying it from me.

Really? Poor Elon must be going bankrupt any time now, seeing how much of Tesla and SpaceX he owns.

... or force.

Now if only somebody involved in DOGE had all sorts of connections to people highly experienced with cars... maybe even by running a major carmaker himself?


I am also considering leaving Gmail over the blue squiggly lines trying to tell me how to "improve" my phrasing.

I like the nuance my words convey, Google.

I don't need to sound like an LLM with no sense of personality. My phrasing is chosen very deliberately to draw a very precise picture. I don't appreciate you trying to blur it.


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