Thanks @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @emilymbender.bsky.social @doriantaylor.com @bell.bz @biancawylie.com and everyone else not yet on bsky for the writing and ideas (and meme) that went into this week's issue of the Product Picnic!
The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings.
But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.
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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.
