> Just like how sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing or luddites were worried about job displacement with the industrial revolution;
This is pretty exemplary of resolution loss in verbal reasoning.
Which sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing? If you refer to Phaedrus dialogue, the passage about the invention of writing is a just a story that is used to move the conversation along. By that time writing had existed for thousands of year. The dialogue is about rhetoric and learning, not about writing itself.
Luddites are also often quoted by people with a lossy compression of history. These "King Ludd" graffiti and sabotage actions are highly correlated with labor action suppression and severe enforcement of criminal acts calling for execution of laborers involved in labor organization. It was a revolt against severe oppression, not some dumb way to try and stop progress.
The big "frontier" models are expert systems built on top of the LLM. That's the reason for the massive payouts to scientists. It's not about some ML secret sauce, it's about all the symbolic logic they bring to the table.
Without constantly refreshing the underlying LLM and the expert system layer, these models would be outdated in months. Language and underlying reality would shift from under their representations and they would rot quick.
That's my reasoning for considering this a bubble. There has been zero indication that the R&D can be frozen. They are stuck burning increasing amouts of cash for as long as they want these models to be relevant and useful.
Stock buybacks and cryptocurrency are ways to circumvent the Fed's monopoly on currency. The US is not a single monetary economy anymore, it's several. None of the economic analysis institutions know work anymore.
I have found a debt entrapment scam at the city center of a major European capital, being run inside a notable and ostensibly fair trade company.
It was kind of crude, just by reading terms of services and contracts on offer it jumps out of the pages. But I also saw someone start there accepting and signing and going along with everything with minimal thought. Did not read anything, clicked through everything and walked right into the trap. I feel bad for them but the scammers are clever enough to establish plausible deniability. Short of an official investigation with interrogations and subpoenas I don't think anything will change.
Beware out there people. Read everything very carefully, if anyone or any organization requires you to use any website or app, read the terms of service carefully.
