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Donald #Trump, who appears in the #EpsteinFiles perhaps more than Epstein himself, began #Easter Sunday with a vulgar post that concluded “Praise be to Allah!”
That’s the news today. From now to eternit…

The whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.

SoFi says SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app (Brian Danga/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/402361/sofi-rolls-out-sofiusd-stablecoin…

from my link log —
The Nintendo Switch switch.
https://blog.cynthia.re/post/nintendo-switch-ethernet-switch
saved 2019-12-11 https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Leonora Post Punk:
🎵 Eternos
#LeonoraPostPunk
https://leonorapostpunk.bandcamp.com/track/eternos-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iXHrszWTu8t97TcR4CEN5

What if we're making the wrong bet about progress?
Just watched someone crack open a million-year-old fossil like it was nothing. Made me think: we open ancient things believing we'll get the most value NOW. Not later.
Same with AI. We're betting progress will speed up AND slow down at the same time.
Weird, right?
New post explores why we value personal forever but trade away our collective future for almost nothing.
Read more: [link]

The Role of Eternity
On fossils, AI, and the bets we are making about progress

"Blair, who has links to petrostates and whose institute takes money from technology companies that want a large build-out of AI data centres, has made these arguments for fossil fuels and against net zero many times in the past two years."
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing - one of those eternal truths. And, unfortunately, a plague of the "moderates" who are still swallowing the #neoliberal

"Blair, who has links to petrostates and whose institute takes money from technology companies that want a large build-out of AI data centres, has made these arguments for fossil fuels and against net zero many times in the past two years."
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing - one of those eternal truths. And, unfortunately, a plague of the "moderates" who are still swallowing the #neoliberal

from my link log —
Teaching a cheap Dell ethernet switch new tricks.
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dell-switch-hacking
saved 2019-06-13 https://…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Leonora Post Punk:
🎵 Eternos
#LeonoraPostPunk
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iXHrszWTu8t97TcR4CEN5