There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

There's a pretty substantial difference between unnecessary or imposed friction, which sucks and everyone should rightfully hate, and organic friction, which is where embodiment, learning, mindful engagement, or all of the above have the space to happen.

The other flip side is that even though I own remarkably little, I've got more diversity in what I listen to now because algorithmic nudges have been substituted for me taking more chances of fewer things that I know I'll spend time with.

And it's great. Really, genuinely great.

Dropping off streaming services necessitates slower consumption, if you're not wanting to put all the streaming service into the exact same medium again

Maybe you can get around it with charity shop CDs and the like (remember CDs?), but generally… your newness and currentness is going to be limited

Since I dropped streaming some years ago, I have remarkably little music, but I appreciate the nuances of it all so much more. Hell, at this moment I've only got about 20 albums, but it's worth keeping in mind:

1) I'm satisfied, I rarely need more
2) I love them all so much more for what they are

Artists are paid a pittance because you're paying far under the value of what they produce — of time, costs,the value of distribution, of marketing, of design, and all else.

And at the same time, through this extreme saturation of novelty, you never get the chance to really appreciate what you love

Through forces of algorithmic recommendation, notification bombardments, and social media, you're pushed to desire more than is achievable. All whilst misleading you as to the value of what you consume: sales can't compete with something new all the time for the cost of one album a month.

In just about every form, independent artists are doing incredible things right now. They're hard to find, hard to spot, and working their arses off for only the faintest recognition and almost certainly less money than they need.

But god is it worth seeking them out.

And frankly, this sentiment extends to the arts broadly. It's harder to get things noticed, to make them pay off, probably than it's ever been. But when they do get made, when the stars align and creators are given the space to create… it feels like we live in an incredible time.

For all the ills and hardship getting indies noticed, or studios being ground into dust for a clueless executive's quarterly report, the greed-driven changes in the AAA space…

Barely a month goes by where there isn't something exciting, or narratively moving, or trying something totally new.

Unless you've sorted yourself out with extended security updates, that also applies to you if you're a Windows 10 holdout. You've less than a year of security patches.

For everyone's safety, either consider your Linux migration plan NOW, or prepare yourself to bite the bullet on 11.

If you truly hate modern Windows that much, please just switch to Linux. I don't care what software you "need" (and I cannot possibly fathom what you supposedly need that still runs on something that old). What you are doing is dangerous to both yourself, and to basically everyone else. Stop it.

You ever cried at developer commentary?

All this to say: I am officially stumped for ideas as to where this is useful. I'm out of use cases that haven't been torn to shreds in research. Even augmented retrieval is a bust.

Perhaps it'll be a stepping stone. But frankly, as of now, this tech is nothing but a novelty for computer scientists

Working with LLMs under observation, people can see that the outputs are crap.
But they'll write it off as an unusual incident, rather than standard fare.

It couldn't possibly be impaired judgement — "It must be our specific prompt!". That this is consistent when working with others goes unnoticed.

You can see it in action when you're working with somebody who uses ChatGPT.
"I'll ask ChatGPT, it's great for this sort of thing."

The response is not great — "It's usually better than this"
Yet strangely only when nobody else is watching.
"Maybe we're just looking for something too specific."