Yeah, completely agreed on that. GenAI erodes our collective ability to discern truth, and to the tech oligarchs that's a feature, not a bug.

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And there are many other reasons I don't use LLMs. They're not reliable, they are built on theft, their creation incurs environmental costs & direct harm to people. The broader societal push to use AI for everything is destructive in countless ways & has horrifying political ramifications.

The paper was mostly written at SLAC, though.

John Bell (and Mary Bell) stayed at a few different places during their sabbatical year, and UW Madison was one of them. But I don't know how long they were there. (I know exactly where to look to find out - Andrew Whitaker's biography of Bell - but I'm on the road right now and can't look it up.)

I'm not sure that most "why" questions regarding specific movements in the stock market actually have good answers. It's essentially a giant random number generator that is loosely connected to public perception of various corporations.

i am going to become the joker

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I don't know but let me know if you figure it out 😉

I think that's an understatement - I think owning billions of dollars rots your brain faster and more reliably than nearly anything else could.

To pick one of the *less* serious reasons why this isn't happening: on the Apollo missions, moon dust (which Bezos wants to turn into solar cells) "overheated instruments, clogged the astronauts’ wrist locks, irritated their eyes and lungs, and eaten through several layers of Mylar in their suits."