Economics is the social control mechanism that filled the void vacated by religion after the enlightenment.

Finance replaced mythology. Banks and financial institutions replaced churches and cathedrals. Economists replaced the clergy. GDP replaced God.

Mathematics is the foundation of reality, accounting is a selective subset of mathematics.

Economics is functionally religion that wears a tattered robe of finance which is patched with parts of accounting that economists find useful to support the doctrine of their particular model.

Like religion, economics can prove useful for a society, but similarly it has no intrinsic legitimacy imposing influence on or over those who don’t willingly and non-coercively subscribe to its narrative.

Where’s the flaw in my comment?

Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.

Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked by the owning class, and applied as their supporting mythology.

It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away.

The LLM didn’t ‘solve’ anything, it regurgitated a guess.

Stop attributing comprehension and agency to something which is intrinsically incapable of possessing it.

The original IBM XT and PC used ISA, EISA, and VESA cards and slots which faced the other direction. PCI and AGP cards flipped orientation partly to ensure they couldn’t be accidentally inserted into the wrong slot, and became the norm as the older slots disappeared from systems.

Studying something doesn’t make the subject legitimate. There are plenty of academic fields rooted in imaginary conjurings, like theology, economics, and business.

I trust you and your colleagues do, in fact, know what you’re talking about; my argument is if you’re claiming any function or output of a LLM should be in any way considered adjacent to intelligence, what you’re saying is gibberish.

‘AI’ is a marketing term, and has been since the term was conjured in 1956. Anyone who treats it as anything beyond that classification is a charlatan trying to punch down and grift others who know less than the little they do.

AI is here to stay. It’ll never go away, unless there is no more electricity on the planet.

‘AI’ doesn’t exist, at least when that term is meant to reference Artificial Intelligence in relation to LLMs, as they are intrinsically incapable of possessing or providing comprehension.

LLMs aren’t going away, but that doesn’t translate to an expectation that we should all have to be exposed to their explosively imprecise slop ingestion and excretions.

So, we should all come to terms with it and use it the best way we can.

This fascistic, rape culture rhetoric further diminishes arguments of its inevitability. If that’s your kink, go ahead and debase yourself, but just like religious dogma, it ceases to be acceptable or tolerable the moment it’s imposed on those who don’t, or can’t, provide explicit, informed consent.

Vegetarians and vegans just hate plants more than they love animals.

It’s the mineral eaters you really need to keep your eye on.

The old classic underpants gnomes killing cancer with cancer.

Grift on, Garth!

s/May\ //

Maybe changing education institutions from being knowledge acquisition environments into employment indoctrination factories was a poor decision.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

wealth:skill::capital:labour

It’s not a new concept, and neither are the countermeasures or remedies.

All good, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.

All things being equal, I agree, but the gallows have historical notions of punching down, with connections with state oppression, and hanging with lynching; whereas the guillotine invokes class struggle and punching up.

Guillotines, not gallows.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Can’t get burnt if you’re completely reflective.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.