There is some circular financing going on, but AI accelerationists think this will be offset by demand, value, and adoption in businesses. Hence these deals are warranted for the incoming demand.

I think I saw Altman saying there's a global shortage of compute just now so this may address it. I'm not sure how much is actual user demand though and how much just investors wanting to pile into AI startups.

>> "Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context."

But this has more or less always been the case for LLMs. The challenge becomes context capure. Which in my opinion is the real challenge with LLM adoption. Without the right contex, some tasks just cannot be reliably completed.

I think it would be better to ask why do states allow trading with the country your state is at war with.

This concept is closely reated to politics of inevitability coined by Timothy Snyder.

"...the politics of inevitability – a sense that the future is just more of the present, that the laws of progress are known, that there are no alternatives, and therefore nothing really to be done."[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/16/vladimir-putin-...

This article in question obviously applied it within the commercial world but at the end it has to do with language that takes away agency.

This is incredibly useful and interesting. I have tried asking claude to generate XML code for various diagrams for import to draw.io with varying success. But I feel like if I could incorporate these instead, or markdown, for a specific graph instead of pure XML would yield better results.

I think the better question is to answer why do emergent properties exist in the first place.

I disagree with the premise that emergence is binary. It's not. What we determine "emergent behaviour" is partly a social concept. We decide when an LLM is good enough for us and when it "solved" something through emergent properties.

This is literally what I use AI for. Excellent project.

Isn't that quite a pessimistic view though? Of course there will always be something that irks you, but that does not mean you can't be fulfilled at some point in life and be aware that you are really happy and there is nothing you would change.

I think it depends on your perspective. You can think of it as pessimistic or optimistic. An optimistic view would be: There will always be problems, but I can deal with them. Everyone else also has problems. No matter the decisions I made, there is no reason to have regrets.

It helps me to know that the richest, most attractive or smartest person alive has the same amount of problems. It's just part of life and I am happy

> it’s clear that Trump will back down on any extreme positions he takes.

That has always been the case with him. That's literally his negotiation tactic.

If only someone had written a book on this exact topic, back in the 80s.

I think that’s a fair comment. The only reason why I was not entirely convinced that that would be the case is that tariffs seem to be one of the positions that Trump was truly ideologically bound to.

I couldn’t tell whether he would really go through with this or not. Now it’s clear he has no bottle at all. So weirdly is more of a comfort.

This is very interesting. I feel like we are going towards a future where you will have personal agents that know a lot about us and will interact with other corporate and government agents to complete beurocratic and non beurocratic tasks. Those with more capable agents will have to pay a premium.