[eleventen]

The chorus of people been calling for a pause has gotten louder. I'm ready to join them. Until recently, generative AI was more of a promising novelty than a useful tool. Work theater rather than work. Sometime over the last 6 months this changed. LLMs can do real work, enough that workers and companies and governments need time to catch up to the present state of things.

[aspenmartin]

Which country? What happens when other countries don’t stop and pull ahead? What happens when business moves elsewhere? I cannot think of anything more unlikely to succeed that, against all odds were it to succeed, would have such a terrible set of adverse consequences and be completely ineffective.