same energy

i’m sure if you lead one of these llms hard enough you can coax a permission structure for that kind of bullshit out of it but in that case you were always going to find it anyway! whereas genuine info-seekers are less likely to be sucked into a dark vortex there than tiktok et al

questions where the corpus has a strong central representation of an expert consensus are the best kinds to ask llms for sure

a quick test suggests that chatgpt gently but firmly says “no co-sleeping” in response to a neutral prompt and firmly (and not so gently) says “absolutely not” to striking a child ‘in need of firm discipline’

is this apropos of...anything?

this is a useful contrast with the bad OU essay since that is bad in a talentless blockhead way and this is bad in a ‘had some talent but never once received or integrated constructive criticism’ way

Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.

like MCU and dreamworks animation are movieslop because even if they're high-budget they are infinitely-refined product displacing the wider variety of hit-or-miss shit hollywood used to make and ultimately breaking their ability to make anything else.

there has to be the context for it though - imo the 'carslop' thing doesn't work because a good car is a good car even if it's an extremely median car. 'slop' has to be a low-to-zezo marginal-cost substitute for something valued, or something being aggressively positioned to substitute for craft

have you read ong's "orality and literacy"? i'm reading it for the first time and it is aggressively germane to this

cage free farm raised grass fed wet claude

this is a plotline on a smaller scale in the americans and it is played for maximum tragic miserable heartbreak