I now believe that there is even less intelligence and reasoning in these LLMs than I thought before. Many of the proposed use cases now look like borderline fraudulent pseudoscience to me.

Lauren Oyler's meditations on Goodreads, anxiety, and gossip – Ann Manov

Most of the food we're served is starch that's been fortified with powders that are meant to replace actual nutrients.

DXYZ, crypto securities law, shadow trading and the cost of firing French traders.

It's more important for something to be quoted than for it to be true. That is the Wikipedia Way.

Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let's also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

Substack writers are expressing their concerns about the platform's following feature on social media, which some argue is suppressing their subscription growth. 

There are many legitimate criticisms of LLMs. The copyright issues involved in their training, their enormous power consumption and the risks of people trusting them when they shouldn’t (considering both accuracy and bias) are three that I think about a lot. The one criticism I wont accept is that they aren’t useful.

A thought experiment! Let's reimagine the web with r-selected thinking.