New comment by satrerer in "LLMs as a Cognitive Virus"

satrerer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:17:34 +0000

If any alien is picking up the text we are generating they must conclude that people in 2026 spend most of their time at the library reading philosophy and having these salons of enlightened reasoned debate if they are so worried about the atrophy of their thinking by LLMs. They don't send electronic communication at the salons or library and are really concerned when they get out with the loss of the culture and thinking they currently have. That is how they are explaining the hysteria they see in the text.

They certainly would never guess that the text is being generated by people who mostly spend their time sending and receiving text/video of unthinking, brain rotting, bullshit all day and night.

New comment by satrerer in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

satrerer — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:20:20 +0000

We aren't even rational like, we are after the fact rationalizers.

Behavior is largely sentiment driven or random and then we invent a story after the fact to frame the behavior as "rational".

"Rationality" is when these two processes happen to line up and that happens very rarely.

We do have the right language in "economic actor" because economics itself is a type of performance. Economics is closer to theater than to chemistry. The non-performative version of economics is a hedge fund.

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