provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
we USED to have communities without communication. NOWADAYS we have communication without community.
Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working
... See moreFreddie deBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
what is ine idea you’d defend like this?
There’s a lot of hype around AI, and in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs). To be blunt, a lot of that hype is just some demo bullshit that would fall over the instant anyone tried to use it for a real task that their job depends on. The reality is far less glamorous: it’s hard to build a real product backed by an LLM .
Phillip Carter • All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About When Building Products With LLMs
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”