not blaming the engineers (and especially the tinkerers) but this rings true. the thing that’s odd to me is that “web3” (so much of which was grift or didn’t make sense) seemed to have more design investment. why is that?
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the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections