“ #LLMs are a #technology suited to a decadent #culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It’s easier to make money rearranging words according to various probabilities than it is to make a living improving the #health of our topsoil, #communities, and souls.”
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“#SocialMedia didn’t democratize speech so much as it degraded our informational #ecosystem; it democratized the need to be vigilant and discerning as we sift through vast quantities of debris in search of reliable #institutions and #information.”
“ #LLMs are a #technology suited to a decadent #culture, one that chases easy profits rather than tackles the real challenges we face. It’s easier to make money rearranging words according to various probabilities than it is to make a living improving the #health of our topsoil, #communities, and souls.”
“Tasks such as #writing well, #thinking well, and living well are hard, particularly for fallen and fallible creatures. But we gain the competence to meet these challenges responsibly only by careful, effortful #practice. No technological shortcut, no forbidden fruit, will alter this creatural #reality.”
“it is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
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