>Somewhat creepy, but if you're imagining that this thing is conscious and knows that it's in doom... yeah definitely not.

I don't know if it knows it's in doom - looks like all it knows is to shoot when startled. More than creepy imo.

Yes. It's like exercise. Or eating healthy. I don't enjoy working out but I should really be doing it. I really enjoy eating sweets, but I should not be doing that all the time.

The "predict the next word" to a current llm is at the same level as a "transistor" (or gate) is to a modern cpu. I don't understand llms enough to expand on that comparison, but I can see how having layers above that feed the layers below to "predict the next word" and use the output to modify the input leading to what we see today. It is turtles all the way down.

>Authoritarian central planning isn't an inherent trait of engineers and nor should we aspire for it to be.

I would say that for long-term engineering projects (building bridges etc) authoritarian central planning is a required trait.

> Trying to reduce China v America to engineers vs lawyers is so reductive it's just mind blowing this keeps getting repeated.

Think of it as engineers vs non-engineers (lawyers/mba types/etc). We complain about that on here all the time (ex. boeing). It's where the priorities are: is it on making things better or making more money? In an ideal world, it would be both. Unfortunately here, it is not otherwise enshittification would not be a thing.