Cabel Sasserthis graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.
when you’re inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn’t.
myrmepropagandistI can't imagine "the internet" getting boo'd like that in 2001 Grads would have cheered along for "internet"
Or even like bitcoin in say 2010, lots of people were skeptical but would not have just boo'd
This is remarkably unpopular.
Landa 
@futurebird
Proponents are always comparing it to the industrial revolution, but maybe it's better compared to the likes of leaded gasoline, CFC aerosol cans, or asbestos anything.
Maybe some of us have learned to spot a pattern.
@cabel
anonymousplI was going to say "no asbestos is useful" but thinking about that more I think you are correct, because so are LLMs in a very narrow setting, just like asbestos, but instead we have foolish business persons who want to put this stuff in everything.
bencourtice@futurebird @anonymouspl @[email protected] @cabel when I did asbestos handling training, they explained that it didn't get banned for lack of uses - it's very useful! - but because it happens to kill people horribly. A geologist friend was recently diagnosed with mesothelioma after workplace exposure many years prior. It's still killing people.
Noodlemaz@bencourtice @futurebird @anonymouspl @cabel yep, since it takes decades for the cancer to develop, we're now seeing the impact on people who were installing it in the 60s-80s.
It's horrific, very hard to treat, most won't survive. We didn't know at the time, is the thing.
But we already have evidence that LLMs can kill people too. The absolute lack of giving a shit is overwhelming.
robertogonzalez@noodlemaz @bencourtice @futurebird @anonymouspl @cabel I'm afraid we did know about asbestos way before the 60's. First lawsuit is dated in 1929. We just didn't care enough. Same thing happened whenever a profit is in sight, see GHG as a quite prominent example.
Feisty@robertogonzalez Maybe we will see Make Asbestos Great Again. I don’t even think that is far-fetched at this point. @noodlemaz @bencourtice @futurebird @anonymouspl @cabel