https://archive.ph/Dg5VL

But it is, kind of, a Terminator situation. A cultural one, not a technological one.

You see, this idea did travelled to the past. Maybe not with a time machine, but by means of us humans imagining it before it existed.

Now we're laying the public discourse of a real technology on top of a landing strip made on the popular culture by movies and sci-fi authors.

The plane: the actual technology we're just developing.

The landing strip: the decades of imagining and popular culture.

If anyone truly believes LLMs are a monster, they're mistaken. The monster is within this brahmanian representation of it. That is the dangerous stuff. And it's the stuff media outlets are also playing with a lot.

We're kind of dumb, technical people. We can't see that stuff very clearly. Culture and metaphor and ideas. I mean, we can, but we're naive, idealistic and shallow. What if we weren't?