Post #4502679
2026-08-10 23:51 UTC
And of course — this has ALWAYS been a problem. The Challenger didn't need an LLM to blow up. "Eating your seed corn" is not an expression about OpenAI. There's always this temptation to erode the margin of safety.
But we had a few decades there where the combination of cultural capital, ZIRP, and an amount of earnest idealism that people outside the SF bay tech cultural archipelago often don't appreciate, let us create something that mostly looked like it worked.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 23:55
And now, we have a tool that looks, without DEEP analysis, much like any other software tool, that can easily fool someone into thinking it is "regular technology", is a devastatingly potent accelerant to this impulse. Other creative fields, more mature ones, are struggling, Writing and academia and music are all hit hard. But they have intellectual traditions that allow them a scaffolding around which to resist, stories from their history about similar temptations which can be resisted.