anyway it is very clear that the united states has no actual president and the acting president is whoever is in the oval office (stephen miller) at the same time as donald trump

And this is coming from the company that managed to fail at every single deployment of a new idea since email.

"80% does X"
"wow thats a really big number, it sounds made up"
**advertising material**
"why should i trust advertisers"
"you trust advertisers"
this is a really good and normal way of thinking about other people's thoughts. definitely keep going.

"The Literature" is not marketing materials that you hastily looked up. There do exist actually useful and peer reviewed papers on the subject, and I think its worth actually keeping those links around to hop into conversations like this. Blogs from companies who would profit is not research.

I'll generally agree. I find the embedding portions of the LLMs more useful than any of the agentic steering portions. LLMs themselves are useful for extremely constrained systems where you don't let them waste anyone's time, which is not the place that people want to shove it.

And beyond where your words are, how do people access them? If the medium is the message, and the medium is the wires of raw pattern learning from prodding your mind through your attention, and the interface build to mimic 80s office culture, what is the message?

More Mcluhan posting to follow

But here in netspace, the audience itself is the most active participant in the generation of temporality. Circling hosting, archiving, and sharing, the actual position that a body of work holds is extremely ephemera. Where are your words?

But its weird to consider the place that reading and writing in the cultural context. Writing as communication is conceptually atemporal. We can read the political writings of Plutach and the NYT all in the same physical present. And thats great if you are writing on dead tree artifacts.