[person tries to plan a walking tour of San Francisco for their vacation] Iris van Rooij, grabbing the laptop out of their hands: "this is computationally intractable and thus obviously impossible. just cancel your trip. all travel is provably inefficient and pointless"

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I think people are just sick of having to live their lives by other people's rules all the time. Wear that, call me this, don't joke about that...it's coming from all sides today. People are afraid to go out or speak for fear of some shaming of some sort.

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this is going to be a tough one for the Zitron crowd to swallow, but these companies switched to per-task or per-session cost measures so quickly that it apparently goes without saying, and that means they are effectively looking at it in ROI terms. lower cost per unit means increasing ROI

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If LLMs never improved another iota for the rest of our lives, it would still be the most transformative invention of the 21st century. but it keeps improving

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"Driven people find a way to get things done." Note that *is* nonsense. Go jump off a cliff and flap your arms. If you're driven enough, you'll be ok. re: level of creativity, yeah you might be right. Even if we do get a bump, it might not be enough to counter the (many) downsides.

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