It has no explanatory power. You might as well just say “we don’t know how this works and can’t do it on purpose” without adding complications like “but some other entity can do it”

It may feel cozy to assume some authority knows what it’s doing and stop thinking about it

Haha, I just looked it up, and the remote server isn’t even virtualized. I have 32 threads of bare metal server that is only a little faster than 4 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores of Apple silicon running in the background while I use my laptop normally. Infuriating.

I don’t have the reach, and I don’t like the incentives of crossposting on second thought anyway.

I think this analysis would be appreciated by the more thoughtful people in the AI crowd on X if you were willing to wade into that cesspit, but I can imagine it not being worth the thoughtless reply guys.

I finally read this. It holds up as a framework to understand attention about as well as it explains the commoditization of it. “Thoughtful” was a good descriptor. Thanks for your note.

Do I have your model right here:

Your swing voter votes for Biden in 2020 because yikes Covid and government is clown car.

Then Trump 2024 because egg cost too.

Then Dem 2028 because (for example) AI ate da jobs and government is clown car.

Just no object permanence?

That sounds bad for your soul. Contempt must be wielded selectively against the antisocial.

If LLM therapy works, I think it’s a good value, but I bet most people end addicted to, for example, a sycophant or a fake gf which they think is a therapist, and that might be antisocial enough for contempt

I’m imagining the continuation of upper-middle-class children sent to live with their aunt and declared homeless, but the optimal amount of fraud is nonzero I guess