Tootfinder

The Larimer Senior Group and artist John Peña have been collaborating on a series of public artworks over the last four years.
They meet for a monthly luncheon at The EECO Center in Larimer where they enjoy good food and fellowship while designing new project ideas and planning field trips around the city.
In 2020, Peña and the seniors created “The Larimer Times” Newsletter.
This full-color printed document chronicles the lives of the seniors through first-person storyte…

"Much like ChatGPT, Altman is capable only of loosely approximating the output requested, because at his core he lacks any of the substance or technical history required to do so. Like ChatGPT, he’s a know-nothing that, through deterministic measures completely detached from the meaning of the underlying ideas, picks the right words to say at the right time."
(Original title: Managing Up)

Managing Up
Over the last two newsletters (three, if you include my reply to Google’s “rebuttal” of the Prabhakar Raghavan newsletter), I’ve made the case that while rot economics are responsible for making technology products manifestly worse, this transformation was only possible thanks to the interventions of a managerial class.