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by AfterHIA 248 days ago
Language models have limited use in many well established domains like the humanities, literature, and art. The reason "AI" isn't being used to build, "the future we always wanted" is that even before LLMs innovation and incremental improvement weren't, "hard;" it takes a significant financial infrastructure to market products and create, "new, better norms" and given that software has moved from, "sell people useful tools and support" to, "collect and sell massive amounts of data; engage in behavior modification" there's no real reason to create better tools even if Claude can exponentially reduce development costs and time to working prototypes. We're living beyond the scope of market capitalism. We now live in pre-technofeudalism so all non-marginal gains are going serve the oligarch's potential for rent-collection. They aren't for you and I.

Real innovation looks like this: https://worrydream.com/ and https://archive.org/details/humaneinterfacen00rask and https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/papers/scanned/Doug_Engel...