LLMs are a subset of ML. They are a specific technology, but IMO the thing people object to is ‘Generative AI’, which includes (nearly all?) LLMs but is fuzzier because it’s a marketing term, not a technological one.

I wish I had your optimism, but I’ve seen how America responds to crimes by rich white conservative male politicians.
Especially when the victims are nonwhite and far away.

Maybe things can change, but it would be a change for there to be meaningful accountability.

They were for a while, but then figured out that UBI empowers workers to reject shitty working conditions, so now they’re against it.

Let me put this more productively: there was considerable public fury toward previous Republicans for lies, crimes, misbegotten wars, etc. But it ran up against the *enormous, extremely powerful* forces defending elite impunity. And the latter forces won, decisively. It was barely a fight.

They do not believe there will ever be consequences for them, even if they lose power.
They’re probably right.

Something like 99.9% of people who work directly for government are deeply underpaid. It’s a problem (for me personally as one of the underpaid people, but also in general).

Worth pointing out that, as someone with a CS degree and 15+ years of making software for money, I would no more try to modify a compiler than to re-engineer a jet engine.

They are generally agreed to be the Deep Magic of software, which you should Really Know What You’re Doing before messing with.

I mean, not putting sociopaths into those positions in the first place would be even better, but I’m trying to be realistic here.

Pretty much every online community and social media I’m aware of is in the range from ‘might be some real applications but we won’t know them till the bubble bursts’ to ‘insult to life itself‘, with a side of ‘stop lumping my real, useful machine learning project in with that garbage’.

Recent Events have highlighted for me that creating a widely-used web framework in a popular scripting language is, if anything, a sign you might be at elevated risk of having shitty opinions.

Safari on Apple devices, Chrome (reluctantly) on Windows.

Mamdani is the character who breaks your D&D campaign by having a +45 Diplomacy modifier.

Well, no, that’s when you skip presenting the amended indictment to the grand jury, potentially rendering your entire case nonexistent.

These are, as the saying goes, not very bright guys.

I will suggest that there was a third faulty premise, which is that government is wildly inefficient. This is widely believed and just genuinely not true for the vast majority of programs.

‘Investing is long-term and strategic, requiring time and discipline’

Someone should tell the stock market and the CEOs.

One of them in Maryland apparently served as a defensive trench during the civil war (and thus ended up preserved by the park service).