... So we are declining to promote & publish. PS. Better luck next time, and get a real job sonny.”

Hang in there Nathan.

I've suffered acute depression and social anxiety my whole life, but the small accomplishments still make life worth living.

... — the "punishment" should be redistribution of output, and that can be domestic! If that country has a significant income disparity, maybe the UN "sanction" should be a massive redistribution of wealth away from that nation's rich and to their poor.

8/n No one will ever *need* LLMs. Like no one really ever needs a Lamborghini or a sable fur coat. The sacrifices made by our sheep each late spring should suffice, as should high quality pleasant public transport infrastructure. (et cetera, et cetera).

7/n
We should not, and do not, need to live at a million miles an hour to have very good lives.

Let me be more blunt: No one ever needs an LLM. Yes, if used wisely they are labour saving, but yet still no one needs them.

6/n But international standards go beyond just technology, and there’s no formal arrangement for protecting people who get isolated and introverted and feedback on their own bitterness. The cause of that is not any LLM, it is government austerity programs and all that rot.

5/n ... right down to kitchen clock sync and rulers that work most of the time to the nearest fraction of a millimeter, and so much more before even getting to why airplanes do not routinely crash (even if absent flight control towers I am saying).

4/n
When I worked in the area of ISO-17025 Standards I was “not even a socialist” back then, but have intimations I would become more worldy wise, just seeing the tiny amount of effort (relatively speaking) put into ISO standards and Metrology, and the enormous invisible gain, ...

3/n ... it is a gross inefficiency to have a system that in order to function fairly and with justice requires people to spend exorbitant amounts of their learning years overcoming systemic ideological prejudices and false paradigms and the need to be wary of every product they purchase.

2/n
but the associated social phenomena go beyond markets and what is for sale and the consumer. Under the rapage by capitalism it has always been “buyer beware” and children grow up completely lacking the skills to be wary buyers, not that they’re to blame, ...

2/2 ... not the bits/qubits per se. A subtle, but enormous difference! If you are so inclined to desire an "answer" then today it's the superstring, at least highly provisionally, until better fundamental theory is discovered.

3/3 Learning how to live under neoliberalism — the Mummy & Daddy of Fascism — has been hard enough, and maxed my educational bandwidth.

2/3 These days a vlog “How to live under fascism” even gets my goat, since no, I don’t want to have to learn that, thanks very much, I’d rather not have the fascism in the first place.

2/2 In fact, Einstein might have derived quantum mechanics from GR.... in an alternative branch of the scifi multiverse that does not exist.