If I practice guitar for 6 hours a day (like John Petrucci in his teenage years) while always wearing an orange hat, I’ll get pretty damn good at the guitar in a few years. I can then spread the word to everyone that the best way to learn the guitar is to always wear an orange hat.

As with the dangers of ‘productivity porn’, ultimately what matters most is putting in the hours.

I'm curious: would you say the feeling of being watched online is making you afraid of some repercussion, or is it something else?

(I'm not saying I _know_ better, just how I think I would _experience_ such a thing.)

Losing a job happens everywhere, but there are different ways to handle it, I guess.

As a European, I never realized that this is allowed under US labor law. That is absolutely insane.

EDIT: some commentors have pointed out that the workers collect severance and unemployment --- I was not aware this is law in California, and that changes matters. I would, though, still find being suddenly out of a job fairly traumatic.

Agree, and I think of it this way: for a lot of businesses, it already makes sense to have a bunch of more powerful computers and run them centralized in a datacenter. Nevertheless, most people at most companies do most of their work on their Macbook Air or Dell whatever. I think LLMs will follow a similar pattern: local for 90% of use cases, powerful models (either on-site in a datacenter or via a service) for everything else.

…for a privileged minority, yes, and to the detriment of billions of people whose names the history books conveniently forget. AI, like past technological revolutions, is a force multiplier for both productivity and exploitation.