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May I interest you in Jevon's paradox: if a thing becomes cheaper or more efficient, usage tends to go up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

That is literally what Excel is for. Why didn't you use that first of all?

Schrödinger's basilisk?

50% of the population are below average intelligence.

Why would you look for sawdust? That's a waste product. You would motivate everyone to stop producing actual furniture, and just buy the biggest bits of wood to turn entirely into sawdust. Which is textbook Godhart's law.

This is what's happening here, you have people setting up two chatbots to churn useless tokens at each other, making only sawdust.

I contend that tokens per se are actually a waste product, or at least non-value add. The end user doesn't actually care how many tokens were used to make a thing. If you could get the same result with fewer tokens, that would be an improvement.

Why should a radiologist have to debunk AI slop? They have enough to do already. That's the same mentality that is frustrating open-source repositories with sloppy pull requests, and saying "here, sort this out for me".

I was going to say the same. Also, if you go to shops like Screwfix or Toolstation (in the UK), you have to give your postcode and name to them before they sell to you. I tried opting out once and they refused to sell to me. I give them fake postcodes and names instead now, but it's very invasive and completely unnecessary.

Maybe it's like Formula 1: it's a purposefully-extreme goal, which drives new development and makes "lesser" goals feel more achievable.

The G in AI GPU stands for "grift"

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel.

https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Some "ai is bad" arguments come from the threat of losing one's livelihood, which is a monetary concern.

Yes Minister has something about this, I seem to remember. Because the government isn't profit motivated, they are instead motivated by the size of their budget and the number of employees.

The CP-SAT primer by Dr. Dominik Krupke is excellent for working with OR-Tools: https://d-krupke.github.io/cpsat-primer

LLMs are costing Google a ton of money in compute and storage right now. If they can farm any of that off to the users, it makes economical sense.

But yes, there is a 100% chance that logs will get sent back to Google too.

It's not really, because you now have the cost of maintaining that fork, even if it's just for yourself.

This is Mr Meeseeks.

Maybe their point is that the brands themselves have a lot of time embedded in them. Generally, status symbols (whatever they are) aren't things that are recently established.

If people have to go through OS auth flow each time they open a website, that will drive everyone mad. One of the key motivators for politicians is not making everyone mad, so the polls don't drop.

Also, I reckon most children know the password for their parent's phone or computer, and many more will find out if there is a highly motivational factor for doing so. How many exhausted parents just toss their phone to their child to stop them whining?

I suppose it could be a biometric sign-in with facial recognition or fingerprint, but again, that's a tonne of friction for the whole web.

I came across ProxyCommand earlier this week, funnily enough. I have Cloudflare Zero Trust set up with an SSH service[0], and have the server firewall drop all incoming traffic. That helps reduce my attack surface, since I don't have any incoming ports open.

[0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/co...

Goodhart's Law strikes again... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."