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It was important to me then to prove that I was a special person. And in my attempt to prove it, I made it true. Only afterwards, when I had received the money and acclaim which I believed I deserved, did I understand that it was not possible for anyone to deserve these things, and by then it was too late. I had already become the person I had once longed to be, and now energetically despised. I don’t say this to slight my work. But why should anyone be rich and famous while other people live in desperate poverty?

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

As a result, Large Language Models seem like *magic.* When you see everything as an outcome — an outcome you may or may not understand, and definitely don’t understand the process behind, let alone care about — you *kind of already see your workers as LLMs.*

The Case Against Generative AI

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.

Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

Émile P. Torres

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