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I'm surprised the book Sovereign Individual is not mentioned even once in this article.
The whole book engages in the same "projecting trends into the future", on the same topic. But in a more detailed way.
In fact, one of the early points it makes is that the Roman Empire, when the last emperor gave way to a tribe lord that invaded Rome, officially when the empire fell, everyone pretended it didn't.
Like the emperor is out, he's living somewhere else, but yeah the empire keeps going, nothing to see here.
Only years later, decades if I recall correctly, did the implications of the fall of the empire truly reached culture.
The shell was untouched, but the insides were rot already.
Not to downplay the absolute behemoth of a task they manage to pull out successfully...but why not upgrading as new versions came along, with less fanfare?
It is a great read, but I can't shake the feeling that it's about a bunch of sailors that, instead of going around a huge storm, decided to go through it knowing fully well that it could end in tragedy.
Is the small upgrades out of the question in this case? As in "each small one costs us as much downtime as a big one, so we put it off for as long as we could" (they hint at that in the intro, but I might be reading too much into it).
In my humble experience, you gain a LOT from writing the questions yourself, I point that I'm not sure if the author is stressing enough.
There's also the problem with cards that are difficult to memorize, which is something that you don't know in advance, and that's a good thing! It shows you were you should pay more attention, write cards in different forms, etc.
There's a somewhat famous movie in Spain called the Miracle of P Tinto[0]. It's a very surreal humor kind of movie, if you fancy that.
The plot starts with the star character who wants to form a family, but when he asked adults how to have kids, they would all pull up the suspenders and sing "tralari, tralari" to evade the question.
And so the poor guy did exactly what he was told: pull his suspenders and sing, for years, to no avail.
I think LLMs are a bit like that: because they can't escape the world of text, they can't go beyond the reality that text is trying to be isomorphic to. Which means that LLMs are forced to infer answers in the context of its training data.
If LLMs were told that in order to have kids you, well, you know, right? Bees and Love? Then LLMs, asked about sex, would infer that the answer has something to do with apiculture and flowers.
Ha ha ha, you're probably right, I came across as an entitled teenager.
But seriously though, taxonomies are part of the whole science enterprise. Unless we formulate hypothesis that can be used to predict new phenomena, we're missing out. Or just cargo culting.
So let me get this straight: the authors of this study find that adults are showing signs of infantilism. And rather than looking at what are the consequences, they focus on the causes, and label the child - adolescent - adult stages as...traditional, hinting that it's just one of many ways in which we can "stratify" lifespans, so to say.
In fact, in the very first sentence, they say that this view is no longer relevant. As in, for who knows how long, it was. Suddenly it isn't.
This framework for viewing ways of organizing society as equally valid and inconsequential defeats the purpose of what, I believe, social sciences are for. I don't need a taxonomy of options, I want actionable insights!
I love Z-library, it's obvious that once we've found a means of transmitting books as "code/software/bits", the concept of copyright was changed forever, the catalog available in Z-library is superb, and the site is easy to navigate.
What I see talked way less is that the quality of new books, in light of this, is very bad. Most books out there that were published in the 21st century serve as business cards. Commoditizing the complement, they call it.
Check section 5.4.3 in the paper, where it proves it quite elegantly IMHO: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf