Disruptive technologies ... disrupt by changing the way people do things.

And there are a lot of people who desperately want AI to be very disruptive.

But, I've never seen so much top-down pushing to try to make this happen.

Forcing people to use it at work. Adding it to applications.

If […]

@offby1 @danlyke Not really on his point, but you reminded me...

There are so many times that I've heard people (not Joe! he knows how it really works!) misquote Deming as if it is an important truth to act on that "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it" without realizing that they are […]

One could wildly misread that statement and possibly even read the opposite of its meaning... unless they realize that it is a statement about the observer who cannot distinguish. It is most certainly not a statement about "sentience" or "reasoning" or any of the other things that LLMs very […]

@mikeolson agreed that it is a great post. I would say that “regulators tip the scale against [things whose primary feature is regulatory escape]” seems… fine?

@chrisjrn This was an excellent talk. I felt lucky to be there in the room with you. It's both important and so very well delivered.