#lessonline

And I don't think it's absolutely ridiculous. I've looked at the analyses, I've run the numbers, I think there are things you could believe, which are reasonable to believe, that could lead you down that path. I don't think that LLMs are everything they're promised to be, but we're clearly in a time of change, with an uncertain future. There's still plenty of low-hanging fruit, and some fundamental problems with current approaches that I expect to be solved.

I was sitting with DaystarEld and talking about whether we were going.

Daystar: Yeah, sounds interesting. Me: What are you going to do? Daystar: Oh, you know, just do my thing. Me (internally): This fool. That's the level of planning he's going in with? I will crush him. I am prepared to rend my soul for audience engagement, I will tell personal and squirmingly awkward things to these strangers, I have been preparing since I saw this on the schedule yesterday morning, and he thinks that he can just go up there and beat me by doing "his thing"? What churlishness. Me (externally): Interesting.

Later on, I told him that this was my reaction, and he said it recontextualized our entire friendship for him into some kind of anime rivalry, which ... you know, I'm surprised he hadn't picked up on that.