Apathy prevents violence, and will continue to do so until the vast majority of people are in constant pain and fear with absolutely no alternative. When the people have nothing to lose they will act.
Even the most politically aware and ethically minded among us can't drop their daily lives in favor of standing up for the oppressed when standing on the razor edge of working every day to avoid homelessness.
Those who are not on the razor edge have "more to lose" by toppling the system
I am not an expert in your field, so you'll know better about the domain specific ramifications of using llms for the tasks you're asking about.
That said, one of the pieces of my post that I do think is relevant and important for both your domain and others is the idempotency and privacy of local models.
Idempotent implies that the model is not liquid (changing weights from one input to the next), and that the entropy is wranglable.
Local models are by their very nature not sending your data somewhere, rather they are running your input through your gpu, similar to many other programs on your computer. That needs to be qualified with: any non airgapped computer's information is likely to be leaked at some point in its lifetime so adding classified information to any system is foolish and short sighted.
If you use chatgpt for collating private, especially classified information, openai have explicitly stated that they use chatgpt prompts for further training so yes absolutely that information will leak not only into future models but also it must be expected to be leaked in such a way that it would be traceable to you personally.
To summarize, using local llms is slightly better for tasks like the ones you're asking about, and while the information won't be shared with any ai company that does not guarantee safety from traditional snooping. Using remote commercial llms though? Absolutely your fears are justified and anyone using commercial systems like chatgpt inputting classified information will absolutely both leak that information and taint future models with the info. That taint isn't even limited to just the one company/model, the act of distillation means other derivative models will also have that privileged information.
Obviously this is the fuckai community so you'll get lots of agreement here.
I'm coming from all communities and don't have the same hate for AI. I'm a professional software dev, have been for decades.
I have two minds here, on the one hand you absolutely need to know the fundamentals. You must know how the technology works what to do when things go wrong or you're useless on the job. On the other hand, I don't demand that the people who work for me use x86 assembly and avoid stack overflow, they should use whatever language/mechanism produces the best code in the allotted time. I feel similarly with AI. Especially local models that can be used in an idempotent-ish way. It gets a little spooky to rely on companies like anthropic or openai because they could just straight up turn off the faucet one day.
Those who use ai to sidestep their own education are doing themselves a disservice, but we can't put our heads in the sand and pretend the technology doesn't exist, it will be used professionally going forward regardless of anyone's feelings.
The comments about seeing a doctor for depression are coming from a caring place, but the reality of being without work for a while means it's hard to afford seeing a doctor.
Chemical depression is not exactly something you can work yourself through, there are some people who claim magic mushrooms can help, but I've not seen any conclusive studies.
After thinking about it a bit I actually think this makes sense.
Imagine a bully on the playground, in a group of other bullies who have all convinced themselves they're the victims. The bully has a baseball bat in their locker that they use to terrorize smaller children who wear blue hats because that means they're secretly out to get the bully. The bully heard one time on another playground a kid in a blue hat hit a kid with a baseball bat, just like our bully. Every time a bully beats the hell out of a random kid at recess there are short term exclamations from the all kids asking for the school to take away the weapons, even though they die out quickly, the bully takes offense at the idea of someone taking away his only tool to protect themselves from spooky blue hats kids.
He stands tall with the other bullies at recess holding little signs, we dare you to take away our baseball bats! Genuinely simultaneously afraid and empowered. They inflict actual threat of violence because they internally have conjured the idea of violence against themselves.
In this recess analogy, hall monitors would stand with the bullies, having baseball bats themselves and also being afraid of the blue hat kids.
If one day a blue hat kid brought a baseball bat to protect themselves the hall monitors and teachers all immediately crack down on them and take it away, because obviously it's not for self defense they're "clearly" out to get the hall monitors.
I don't think ideologically cops would take guns from people who think like them and ally with them, rather from "rebels" and "others" who start a genuine rebellion against a facist regime. Obviously from the perspective of the enforcement of laws against guns the police are the arm of the executive among the people, but they choose when and where to enforce laws all the time.
Ngl I love tailwind, I've been through so many different css paradigms
separate css files: why did we ever do this, if you've ever used kendo's css stuff you'll understand how unfathomable hundreds of thousands of lines of css with complex rules is. Identifying all the things that affect a single component is the work of dozens of minutes at minimum, sometimes hours, you have to understand every nook and cranny of the css spec.
inline styles: fine, but verbose and requires object spreading, harder to compose, theming is tough and requires discipline to be consistent in your theme conventions, almost impossible to also theme imported library components
module.css with imported classes: my go to outside of tailwind
scss: I actually really like scss but it exacerbates the complexity and mystery of css, great for small projects but terrible as projects bloat
bootstrap: basically just worse tailwind, providing only components and colors
That's all I can think of right now, but tailwind is my preferred way to style a new project, I love how easy theming and style consistency is
The man has done more than plenty without making junk up. Taking this approach just will not change minds or help anyone, if reality hasn't done it fiction certainly won't.
I sympathize with the perspective. We already have so much ammunition and intermixing falsehoods just reduces the overall trustworthiness of the genuine messages that need to be disseminated.
Are You Even Human by Thundamoo. Really liked it, it is incomplete and may not be popular enough to tempt the author to conclude it on royal road
Pilot by will wight, incredible author, one of my favorite in fantasy today, but the book was one of his weaker entries imo