This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.

On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity as a whole.

But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.

LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into places where they are obviously counterproductive.

This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.

Can an LLM do something similar despite having never seen anything that isn’t a word or number?

No.

People are generally shit at understanding probabilities and even when they have a fairly strong math background tend to explain probablistic outcomes through anthropomorphism rather than doing the more difficult and “think-painy” statistical analysis that would be required to know if there was anything more to it.

I myself start to have thoughts that balatro is purposefully screwing me over or feeding me outcomes when it’s just randomness and probability as stated.

Ultimately, it’s easier (and more fun) for us to think that way and it largely serves us better in everyday life.

But these things are entire casinos’ worth of probability and statistics in and of themselves, and the people developing them want desperately to believe that they are something more than pseudorandom probabilistic fancy autocomplete engines.

A lot of the folks at the forefront of this have paychecks on the line. Add the difficulty of getting someone to understand how something works when their salary depends on them not understanding it to the existing inability of humans to reason probabilistically and the AGI from LLM delusion becomes near impossible to shake for some folks.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this AI hype bubble yields a cult in the end.

I really don’t think this is part of some grander plan. I think he really thinks blanket tariffs are a good idea.

Tariff man is an idiot.

Retirees ‘idiots’ as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.

Federal and local government are likely both involved. With the doge cuts, who knows how many boots they actually have on the ground for this these days?

They get hit in the pocketbook and suddenly now the Constitution matters.

Being born here is increasingly an albatross to bear your entire life.

Held in a flaming dumpster

They could implement this by just not charging the duties at the ports in California and see who blinks first.

When I used those things, I absolutely understood why a CEO would want those to be the future. It’s everything they’re looking for: a strident, confident yes man machine who will produce without consternation any kind of spin (unethical or not) to any kind of gibberish content requested.

Yeah I mean there’s that but the reddit demo uses ad blockers frequently and ad-based content on reddit is already probably not that profitable. There’s a lot of people running astroturf campaigns for various things, but how are you seeing revenue out of that? Some schmuck buying the wrong type of portable speaker because of a crappy recommendation won’t add to reddit’s bottom line when it’s the speaker maker’s internal marketing intern. If anything, it’ll just further cause people to lose confidence in them.

The only path they had toward profitability was feeding all of their user data into AIs for revenue from AI companies, but chatbots are also unprofitable and that revenue probably won’t even cover the costs to run the servers, and besides how many companies are going to be dumb enough to pay for that privilege? We’re talking about folks that already stole every piece of artwork, literature, and news article they could get their grubby little mitts on. Why would they continue to pay reddit?

Ultimately the biggest conceit of the “attention economy” is the idea that attention automatically translates into dollars.

(And they’re bleeding attention too.)

The obsession with conversational interfaces likely stems from two places: sci-fi and CEOs (and other executive, businessy types) who are used to ordering people around.

This “company” has no real path to profitability to speak of.

Exactly the point

Lol neither are worth that much.

Dude within ten years people in the US will be lucky if they have potable water.

And despite all of its other problems, it’s still not even profitable.

We’re clean on OPSEC