I'm less sure that there is an endgame. Seems more likely to me that it is being run as a reality TV show where the idea is to maintain a high level of viewer engagement.
And no-one is thinking that the only reason reality tv shows don't end in disaster is because it is a tv show, i.e. an artificial and contained/constrained environment.
Can your theory explain then the difference between San Francisco/Bay area and the rest of the United States? Perhaps it is California's generous tax policies compared to say Texas?
and to be blunt, I learned similar things building analog synths, before the dawn of LLMs.
Like you, I don't like watching videos. However, the web also has text, the same text used to train the LLMs that you used.
> When something doesn't work like I thought it would, AI helps me understand where I may have went wrong, I ask it a ton of questions, and I try again until I understand how it works and how to prove it.
Likewise, but I would have to ask either the real world or written docs.
I'm glad you've found a way to learn with LLMs. Just remember that people have been learning without LLMs for a long time, and it is not at all clear that LLMs are a better way to learn than other methods.
> took thousands of years to accept brain as the seat of thought because “heart beat faster when excited, means heart is source of excitement”
So what you are saying is that beings without a central nervous system cannot experience "excitement"?
or perhaps the meaning of too many words has changed, and their context. When Hippocrates claimed that the brain was an organ to cool the blood, perhaps he meant that we use our thought to temper our emotions, i.e. what he said agrees with our modern understanding.
However, many people read Hippocrates and laugh at him, because they think he meant the brain was some kind of radiator.
Maybe because we stopped talking about "excitable" people as being "hot-blooded"
> there is a massive influence operation that seeks to destroy knowledge, science, and technology in the United States
Agreed. Started with big tobacco by discrediting the connection to lung cancer, playbook copied by many and weaponized by Russia.
> There is no subjective measure by which the water used by AI is even slightly concerning.
Does not follow from your first point. The water has to be sourced from somewhere, and debates over water rights are as old as civilization. For one recent example, see i.e. https://www.texaspolicy.com/legewaterrights/
You are probably correct that the AI does not damage the water, but unless there are guarantees that the water is rapidly returned "undamaged" to the source, there are many reasons to be concerned about who is sourcing water from where.
My wife is diabetic, which means she is at higher risk from covid. My parents are old.
I have a duty to my family to protect them, and if that means wearing a mask to reduce my risk of getting covid, then their safety overrules my own comfort.
I have a duty to protect my fellow citizens. Some of them are also vulnerable to covid, though I don't know them personally.
The scientific proof of association between school (esp school start) and the spread of disease goes back over 100 years. I see no reason it would be different for covid, perhaps even stronger for covid where many college age people would be asymptomatic or low symtpoms.
despite some pretty amazing technical innovations
pocket calculator and microcomputer (Altair 8800), first email, pong, floppy disks (they were the standard for 20 years), VCR, cell phone (1973 Motorola), barcode scanners, rubiks cube, ...
> in "medieval" times people also went to church a lot where someone lectured you from a book,
The idea of church as "someone lecturing you from a book" describes only a few christian denominations, few of which were active/existant in medieval times.
I agree that many churches in the US are "20 minutes singing followed by a 1 hour sermon", which is what you describe, but there are also many denominations where the focus is on the liturgy and the sermon is a side note.
liturgy is basically a spiritual practice you do as a group.
say that week's prayer (from the prayer book)
read the psalm, call-and-response (so the congregation is talking half the time)