You just wrote and typed out two sentences and they were beamed across copper wires and glass tubes, and it was predicated on a mix of:
- concepts you've been taught across a lifetime
- concepts you don't even know exist
- hard labor and pain no one person can even track
An unspeakable mountain of effort from people you'll never know to enable a simple social interaction.
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No one of us is an island. I think people underestimate how interconnected humanity is, and LLMs have been a mirror that forces them to understand just how little of us exists in isolation, and how much we ourselves are mirrors of knowledge and influences so far removed from us that we can't even acknowledge them if we try.
> I think people underestimate how interconnected humanity is
That is a true fact (and underlies much social dysfunction) but you can't use it to justify a free for all.
Notice I mentioned two social inventions that individuals found important to keep count of the interdependency: money and copyright/attribution.
While faulty tools in many ways, abusing them is not going to lead to anything better. In fact if actors get away with it it would be a signal that power rests now with a new type of appropriating oligarchy.
- concepts you've been taught across a lifetime - concepts you don't even know exist - hard labor and pain no one person can even track
An unspeakable mountain of effort from people you'll never know to enable a simple social interaction.
-
No one of us is an island. I think people underestimate how interconnected humanity is, and LLMs have been a mirror that forces them to understand just how little of us exists in isolation, and how much we ourselves are mirrors of knowledge and influences so far removed from us that we can't even acknowledge them if we try.