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The other day I went to start my beloved '04 Scion xA (after it had sat two weeks outside, and presumably MA got some of the same deluge other places did) and it wouldn't move. Checked in with ChatGPT,described the problem, and it said the brakes were probably locked, and if I wanted I could carefully try rocking back and forth etc. And yeah, that seemed to solve it.

It makes me think that the problems with LLM are as much or more human and psychological as they are with the technology itself. We just don't have a setup in society where conventional wisdom, adjusted for the current circumstances (and sometimes just made up) is so available, or a society that will take care of people when the possible productivity boosts eliminate jobs (money is too busy funneling upwards to billionaires who use it to keep score in their prestige games.) And its ability to crib from artists to make novel blends also challenges us as a culture, and can provoke big existential questions.