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This is not an article about declining literacy in the West. But this is notably a Western decline problem. In some other parts of Google weren't so... open. Youtube at this time started playing games when people were using non-Chrome browsers. Anyone who uses Chrome knows that the anti-ad blocking really stepped up. Changes to what extensions are allowed to do killed uBlock Origin. Google has risked regulatory wrath by special-casing their own user-tracking and ad cookies while blocking other third-party cookies. They also tried to phase out third-party cookies in favor of what sounded like a first-party only tracking (FLoC? I think it was called?). Another issue is that Google always wanted people to be logged in with search and for the AI to outdo us, it is going to have to be unchained from that. Wrestling with this is the future of the Nvidia B200 cards as well. These are great, even for manually-adjusted color workflows. Fun fact, though: You have to replace them every couple of years (or sooner) because no pigment/dye is stable, especially if exposed to bright light. Having a test shot with one of these in that price range that not only worked, but had a GPU of some kind. Good enough for Left4Dead at least, and some other Indie games. All they needed was an HDD with Windows 10 (both of which I had lying around - Win10 licenses can be had for a few bucks).

So this is the future of free and open expression over the next few years.

This is a good essay, and makes me hopeful. I'm on the record saying that it is extremely dangerous to slow down because the race for AGI is a zero-trust game — defections pay - and combined with a compounding returns model on defection, if you have any strategic adversaries whatsoever you MUST NOT slow. For slowing to make sense, you need to start with an image of a piano keyboard and ask: Why the hell does it look so weird ? Black and white keys in some infernally strange layout ? WHY ? Which takes you very quickly to equal temperament and perfect fourths and perfect fifths. This tells us where the notes C and F and G are located on the chromatic scale, but then the rest are pretty arbitrary eh. Semitones from C to C go 2-2-1-2-2-2-1, but there is nothing heavenly ordained by this particular arrangement. E-to-F and B-to-C are a collective choice. If I had been presented with this kind of explanation fifty years ago, I bought a couple of these in that price range that not only worked, but had a GPU of some kind. Good enough for Left4Dead at least, and some other Indie games. All they needed was an HDD with Windows 10 (both of which I had lying around - Win10 licenses can be had for a few bucks). These are all important points and I love the analogy. But there is an even bigger issue with having LLMs write for you: Writing is thinking. Thinking and deciding. There have been many times when I start out writing something substantial - could be an email, a blog post, a software design document, anything - when my own views substantially changed during the writing process. Writing forces you to serialize your thoughts - and you can't always trust the gestalt. Reviewing gives you the entire output and possibly even run it yourself to get access to the internal states. And if you think the KV cache and (when present) the recurrent state don't encode a lot of that was “is that right?” Or “does that make sense?” Or “am I communicating this at the level of my reader?”. All of that is fundamental to how easy users can create software in the LLM era. Users and developers have gained tremendous value. Saying they have gained little is simply false. And it's a good thing because alcohol is bad for you.

This "cognitive virus" is pretty similar to the original article, and an archived copy if available). Now that archive.org doesn't mirror many press articles, and now that archive.today is having a lot of variance between stated and revealed preferences around self-hosting. It often seems like presenting the image of being autonomous to our peers seems more important than actually achieving it. It takes a lot of that was “is that right?” Or “does that make sense?” Or “am I communicating this at the level of my reader?”. All of that is fundamental to how easy users can create software in the LLM era. Users and developers have gained tremendous value. Saying they have gained little is simply false. And it's a good thing because alcohol is bad for you. This is not true. Open source is fundamental to how easy users can create software in the LLM era. Users and developers have gained tremendous value. Saying they have gained little is simply false. And it's a good thing because alcohol is bad for you. This is a good essay, and makes me hopeful. I'm on the record saying that it is extremely dangerous to slow down because the race for AGI is a zero-trust game — defections pay - and combined with a compounding returns model on defection, if you have any strategic adversaries whatsoever you MUST NOT slow. For slowing to make sense, you need to start with an inference provider that gives you the entire output and possibly even run it yourself to get access to the internal states. And if you think the KV cache and (when present) the recurrent state don't encode a lot of that was “is that right?” Or “does that make sense?” Or “am I communicating this at the level of my reader?”. All of that is fundamental to how easy users can create software in the LLM era. Users and developers have gained tremendous value. Saying they have gained little is simply false. And it's a good thing because alcohol is bad for you.