you're right, nothing stops me. i still can. but that's not really the point.
when everyone around you is shipping in hours what used to take weeks, the pressure to keep up changes how you approach things. you know the answer is one prompt away. that changes your brain. it's like saying you can still use a paper map when GPS exists, technically true, but you won't, and you know it.
the post isn't about going back. it's about acknowledging that something shifted in how we learn by building.
> Neither Apple nor Xerox "invented" overlapping windows.
Apple Lisa and Macintosh are widely credited with the first practical, commercial implementation of overlapping windows in a Graphical User Interface.
Although Xerox PARC developed early prototypes, Apple engineer Bill Atkinson is credited with creating the code that made functional, rapid-rendering overlapping windows possible.
Unlike social networks or auction platforms, the mass departure of users (this isn’t that), would not affect the quality of experience of those remaining. There’s not the same network effects.
The New American Dream: Start as a non-profit dedicated to humanity, pivot to a for-profit to scale and eventually find your final form as a subsidiary of the military industrial complex.
In other words, US tax payers are already paying customers of OpenAI, a few simply won’t be a “double” customer. This isn’t “exactly” fascism, no. It’s something though.
Dwindling number. But maybe? I mean, they're already investing at a level that's completely disconnected from actual results, based on magical thinking and hopium. Just take another hit.
> Experts will naturally use these systems more productively, because they know how to coerce models into the correct conditional distributions which light up the right techniques.
Part of it comes down to “knowing” what questions to ask.
I see it like the relationship between a student and research advisor. The advisor will ideally know the terrain and suggest a fruitful line of attack (what to ask), and the student will follow through, learning along the way.
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