Whereas focusing on true issues, like job loss, economic instability, and the rampant growth of capitalists is more true to what the real problems are here.

Its a claim people keep making that distracts from meaningful discussion about the real harm. If people's hatred of this rampant tech growth is rooted in "it uses water", they won't actually dig deeper. And as soon as they realise that was a lie, you'll lose them

"it's just a complicated prediction machine" man they're gonna flip when they find out how the human brain works

What is he even saying here? Yeah? 40% is a minority

what these people image happens thirty seconds after a retired schoolteacher posts a blurry selfie with #nokings that catches them in the background

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

Not really? Pretty decent local LLMs can be run on home PCs, and the bigger models are getting more and more efficient. If it weren't for this chasing of consent growth, it would be more than sustainable. This is a capitalism problem, the tech isn't really inefficient anymore

Yes now you get it

Yes, both have to exist. But the context of this discourse is many leftists claiming the non violent protests aren't good, which misses that.