A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes| www.existentialcomics.com
And of course, in the end, LLMs are themselves an example of this: something new, shiny and capable, but nonetheless something that doesn't fit into systems or meet real needs. They're a beautifully forged sword that was presented to a society that didn't need swords, and is now being jammed into random pieces of machinery because after all "it's an important part and if we don't use them in our machines, we'll be left behind". Of course, all that happens is that the machinery breaks.| deadSimpleTech
The only reason that LLMs took root in the first place was because our societies in the anglosphere have already developed cultures solely devoted to gaining status and keeping up the appearance of doing things rather than actually doing them. All other values, increasingly including even the accumulation of wealth (while this is still very much a thing that people pursue, wealth is increasingly becoming a proxy for status more than something desired in itself) are becoming subordinated to sy...| deadSimpleTech
Wherein I delve a bit more into the details of epistemic injustice| deadSimpleTech