What is even the point in having this argument?

At this point, one is gaining with each model release or they are not.

Lets see in 2035 who was right and who was wrong. My bet is the people who are not gaining right now are not going to like the situation in 2035.

You obviously have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to music.

Coltrane is so respected because he use to fall asleep with his saxophone in his mouth because that is the level he would practice.

He represents the ultimate dedication to mastering an instrument.

You should really try making some friends with black people that like jazz so you can understand what a clueless thought this is.

I would love this. From day 1 with 3.5 I have always assumed something like this was inevitable. I imagine if we get to a place that jobs are requesting LLM certifications from OpenAI, it would almost be an absurdity to not be linked to your chatGPT chats.

You say this as if humans do not collude all the time. The pejorative idea of a "Conspiracy theory" is such a great modern tool for those who want to collude to hide their collusion in plain view.

Somehow it has become a heuristic that if caste in, the collusion is instantly dismissed as fiction. Even better that the person who thinks collusion is happening must have a lower IQ than those who don't. How convenient for those who are colluding.

I do wonder if this is really the same type of alienation that Arendt refers to.

I can understand how if you are afraid the neighbor is going to be an informant, you stop interacting. Public discourse breaks down and ideology takes hold.

This seems quite different to me than the type of alienation we are talking about in 2025 from online interactions. I am not sure alienation is really the right word in terms of isolation from a group. If anything the problems from social media are from too much interaction and too much political discourse.

I would say that is completely opposite to what Arendt was talking about.

I think it is the way "boredom" has quite a different meaning today than in 1990. While you can still be bored in 2025, I don't feel boredom the same way as in 1990 when none of my friends answered the phone and there was nothing on tv. 2025 boredom is more the lack of hyper stimulation and hyper novelty as opposed to the 1990 version of going through your "junk drawer" to find something again novel because you can't think of anything else to do. I can't even remember the last time I had junk drawer to even go through.