[FRIAM] Musk’s America Party – Some Thoughts from Afar

[steve smith]

glen wrote:
> I try not to mix work with FriAM.

Another great glenFriAM line!

I assumed little of your LLM (or other AI/ML) engagement was "idle", but 
I also assume (projectively) that your curiosity must drive a lot of the 
*way* you use LLMs for your work and what you learn from it.   I get the 
privacy bit, not just the Analytica on Steroids bit, but the "gawdelpus" 
if these LLMs are *listening* to us and learning how to manipulate us 
better?

I'm guilty of letting the LLMs give me the quick answer to things like 
"how to kill weeds in my driveway with limited toxicity?" as well.   My 
method:  " pee on them every morning when I go out to in the sun to kick 
my endocrines into day-mode", but I live somewhat isolated, so maybe 
not.   I also sometimes fill my kettle to the brim and carry the excess 
after a coffee pour out and scald the ragweed, goatheads, and russian 
thistle into submission.

Even the allusory tidbits of how others are using AI/ML effectively for 
whatever they value fascinates me... it fuels the slide into Gibson's 
"Jackpot" maybe but it may also be like the orchestra playing on as the 
Titanic lists.  Did we have something better to do?

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