Its actually the first challenge any alternative to current politics needs to figure out before even bothering with anything else.

Everyone left of center still engages politics as a TED talk, everything right of center is optimized against minimal information and attention.

The winner is obvious

Going to get trains banned by telling people how much water they use

We're all "Kids left alone with mom's tablet who fall into an Elsa-gate style algorithm sink" now

I've felt this pretty acutely in my own work, esp. when put against growing pressure from my leadership to mentor junior/less domain-familiar peers.

I dont use LLMs for particularly exotic applications, but its actually making it *more difficult* to mentor than to just augment myself with an LLM

the computer knows where it is at all times. it knows this because of unregulated bulk resale of user data and metadata (2025)

The most misleading thing that you will get from people describing their process of solving a problem is how many things didn't work. Elite troubleshooting is constantly hitting your head against walls. You think the experts don't run into this, but they do. They just know all the walls to hit.

ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts

We live in a weird timeline…

icml.cc/Conferences/...

Efforts to fight the war against misinfo on the basis of information lost it by overlooking attention.

"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

If my computer wasnt offline during house painting I'd dig up the crazy glazing pro-Obama threads on 4chan /b/ lol.
He was cited as the "first meme President."

Eventually you need to realize this is less a condemnation of the powers that be than it is of the perennial opposition who is otherwise incapable of doing anything about it.

And yet if this war is so unpopular/illegal, why is it still happening anyways?

Check mate, nerds.

While everything is indeed horrible, you are not obligated to solely focus on the horror. The availability of a constant stream of bad news does not make that news valuable by itself. Paying constant attention is not "doing something." So if the information isn't actionable, filter it.

Facebook is great - it shows me all the recent AI trends.

But lately the vibe has been "body horror with a substantial carbon footprint"

The inflection point for me on LLM skepticism was in utilizing the models for something outside my wheelhouse/realm of expertise. The model can't outperform me 1:1 at things I am good at, but it can enable me to be passably performant at everything else I suck at.

I dont even recall the last time I attempted to look in on X for this very reason. Screenshots that leak out of the platform at, for the most part, the only reason the platform still has any ability to reach the outside world.

ai has already kind of materially ruined the basic act of looking at pictures

The European mind cannot fathom every American household has two gigabins