There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Generating text statistically similar to training, 2 years ago, meant statistically similar to humans.

Now it means statistically similar to a billion reddit posts where a guy is ranting and raving about how quantum recursion is transforming him into an immortal god

for the reduction of friction that makes meaning impossible. There's a Fisher quote that's somehow stuck with me, something like "Some want Nietzsche like they want a hamburger; they fail to grasp that the indigestibility, the difficulty is Nietzsche." 2/n