I'm 42. I have found that a depressingly large number of times in my life, being kind has got me precisely nowhere, whilst turning around and being decidedly unkind has made people move. I still always prefer kindness, and only resort to cruelty when kindness does not work - and to be clear this isn't some kind of "you are not bending to my impetuous whim", rather "you are not doing the one thing that you are being paid to do".

I've also found the same applies to me. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

So - I think the LLMs are just responding accurately to a real social phenomenon.

You could also have at home unscheduled social worker visits. Intrusive, sure, but it’s a) something you’d be knowingly opting into through adoption and b) likely mostly focussed on early years.

I mean, I’m all for safeguarding in principle - but it evidently doesn’t bloody work.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0xz424v1o

You croak, your heirs become the beneficiaries of the trust. Rinse, repeat.

How does this man not have a movie?

Closer yet is “look at me! I am sexy and cool! Have sex with me!”.

“Taste” is social signalling, end to end, so strike me down.

I say this as someone who gets writeups of their work in design magazines fairly often - and I am not a designer - it’s just like dressing a theatre set with the correct objects to signal the thing you want to signal.

Fuck, I fed people cat food at a dinner party when I was 20 and they all said it was delicious pâté.

All artifice.

Frankly, you never know when you’re going to have a bad day - I managed to inflict several thousand euro of repairs on my pickup a few months back driving through water that didn’t even come up to the axles - because unbeknownst to me some shithead mouse had chewed through the top of the fuel hose, and water got into the diesel.

So, I expect driverless cars to struggle just as much as humans do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-676414...

What actually happened in each case was that employment went up for a good long while, as the efficiency boost to the sectors touched made investment far more viable. Eventually successive rounds of automation did reduce employment in each of weaving and mining, but it wasn’t an overnight catastrophe as initially advertised or feared.

Then again, if you go to Miranda de Douro, they’ll say the rest of Portugal has been talking nonsense for the last 700 years, so the purists at least always have their concents to retreat to if they so choose.