unpopular writing advice but sometimes you need to let your brain be tempted by the shiny new idea. sometimes that shiny new idea serves to distract your brain so it can work, without you messing it up, to figure out whatever you’re stuck on in your main project.

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So much discourse on what the “left” gets wrong about ai capabilities and yet I never see these folks talk about the actual damage being done to communities right now. Funny that.

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There are a chain of logical leaps that are unsupportable involved: 1. Because I saw it do a thing, that means it can reliably do that thing. (Setting aside that we don’t even agree on what the thing is.) 2. That it can reliably do that thing means it can do another thing that is like that thing.

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In summation: using this tool gives you very little real information as to its capabilities. Unlike, say, a saw. The claim on a saw is that it cuts wood. We can evaluate that easily. The claim is nebulous for GenAI and constantly shifting in ways that tend to exaggerate what it does.

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But what this amounts to is “seeing is believing” for a technology that is purpose built to seem effective. Now we tend to correlate seeming with being. But even avoiding the issue of correlation, the question is effective at what?

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