Pretty sure it works out well more often than not. In a Bayesian sense, expertise signifiers are more useful for updating priors than a lack thereof.
Most people invoking "appeal to authority" are not uncredentialed autodidacts who have secretly figured out something mainstream science has missed, but vaccine skeptics reading Facebook, or HN commenters who think they can figure out whole other disciplines from first principles.
I know Space Coast techies who knew SpaceX people. They were talking about how they had to prevent Musk from making dumb changes whenever he showed up, and this was a decade ago.
Free speech is important, but the truth is pretty important, too. I'm fine with calling liars out.
The blizzard of BS we live in should have thoroughly disproved the idea of the "truth will win in the marketplace of ideas" and "sunlight is the best disinfectant". Fox "News" and its ilk are thriving.
The problem is the complete asymmetry of effort between lying and telling the truth. The truth requires research and investigative work. Spouting lies and believing in them, requires none, so it's much easier.
I sort of lament the use of lines under headings, as they look visually better for human readers of Markdown, but they're worse in other ways: ambiguous heading levels (quick, which is h2, `===` or `---`?), and less token-efficient.
For me, the use of indentation over ``` for code blocks is a complete non-starter, though. It's hostile to copy-and-paste.
Setting aside that very little about economics rises to the level of "facts of nature" like physics...
What makes you so certain that economies of scale won't work the opposite way you imagine? E.g., if model improvement tapers off, but RAM costs decline (hard to believe atm, but historically likely), then eventually everyone will be able to run SOTA models on their personal hardware.
Heck, even if model sizes simply grow more slowly than RAM costs decrease, the same would happen.
As someone who just upgraded a month ago from the last Intel MBP to a new base M5 MBP, I think your laptop might have a problem. I'm definitely not experiencing any of what you describe when doing normal tasks.
Uyghurs, Tibet, and Taiwan, for starters. Taiwan in particular could become a conflict if push came to shove. Hard to say. (No nation will go to bat for the Uyghurs or Tibet, though.)
I think it makes sense, if one sees that LLMs exposed various pre-existing splits in the developer world.
Those who viewed code as a means to build something else, are happy to switch to LLMs if they can build that something faster/cheaper.
Whereas, those who liked coding for its own sake, don't want to use LLMs, and fear for their jobs and their happiness.
Unfortunately for the latter group, we're moving to a world where most development is done by LLMs, and only cutting-edge or hobbyist work is done manually. E.g., Japanese artisanal wood-working and joinery is beautiful and elegant... but modern carpentry doesn't build that way.
Uhhh, irony and facts are not mutually exclusive categories.
And advocating for the dissolution and replacement of the UN due to it being ineffective is deeply ironic, because that's exactly what happened with the League of Nations, which led to the later formation of the UN.
You seem to be in an argumentative mood, but nothing I said is disagreeing with you about the ineffectuality of the UN.