Like always we have to lean on evaluating based on quality. You can produce quality using an LLM, but it's much easier to produce slop, which is why there's so much of it now.
Guess what helps provides a reason for people to want to keep the world running?
We've seen what happens to pieces of the world that prioritize economic production over everything else, and it isn't pretty. We have a number of laws and regulations preventing that sort of production at all costs behavior.
This is largely true in places with above ground power lines, like the US. I happen to live in an area with buried lines and have never actually lost power due to snow.
Boy i wish that principle held up in real medicine and other parts of life; "rep and skills" may in some ways equal power, but that false equivalency is how problematic behavior is excused in unfit individuals.
Same with most productivity gains in tooling historically, I think one way we should consider reckoning with this is through workers rights.
The industrial revolution lead to gains that allowed for weekends and the elimination of child labor, but they didn't come for free, they had to be fought for.
If we don't fight for it, what are we gaining? more intense work in exchange for what?
a large part of the business models of these systems is going to consist of dealing with these systems... it's a wonderful scheme
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