Профиль

I think this is exactly it and a much clearer expression of the contradiction I was trying to get at

Doing a deslopifying pass on claudes galaxy sim code, its really fascinating to me that llms can write such perfectly functional code thats so poorly organized.

I guess what Im trying to get at here is the marxist idea that the power of labor rests in the ability to withhold labor that everyone agrees is socially necessary, but for that to work both sides kinda have to agree that automation is good in the first place.

As far as the history I do know, major industrial labor protections didn't really come about until actually advocated for by the new classes that were supported by the technology and the question of whether it should be used at all was long settled with both sides in agreement.

Ive heard arguments to this effect before. Assuming they are historically accurate, I still think its worth considering whether the luddite approach of attacking technology itself actually accomplished meaningful progress towards those stated higher principles.

Claude is still cooking in the background while I do meatspace work today, every once and a while something like this appears on my screen and Ill watch for a bit.

Programmable textile machines were among the early precursors to computation, Its interesting that a fair evaluation of the impacts of textile machinery would have required the luddites to imagine the economic effects downstream of the computer... Probably a similar blindness going on now with ai.

maybe any sufficiently advanced technology is basically gardening

Like I wonder if the take away should be that we really need to avoid "X new technology is bad and should be smashed" in favor of the good bits like making sure labor arrangements are fair and safe etc.

To be clear I do not know enough to debate whether the luddites were good or bad, but I think its fair to say textile machines are pretty good.

Interesting to me that while there is a lot of renewed interest in the portraying the luddite movement in a positive light because of ai, in retrospect of course no one actually wants to live in a world without automated textile production.

ready or not,

They put one of those standalone police surveillance post things in the parking lot next to my apartment and I heard it speaking at like midnight? City 17 vibes around here lately.

Oh no! Our Bronze Age! Its collapsing!

The pre-movie theater experience has gotten so bad, so many commercials for prescription medication and cars, all the movie trailers have an annoying mash up of pop song + generic epic action music, all lasting like 40 minutes after the stated start time of the movie? Very viscerally unpleasant.

I wonder when the first time I will clock an llm written line of dialogue in a movie will be

Got kinda sidetracked on galaxy physics and improving the rendering a bit

It sounds like a joke but its real lmao

Also funny how much Agamemnon is aura farming in every scene he is in.

I thought it was really funny in The Odyssey when Odysseus looked at the camera and said "Our bronze age is collapsing"