Back in the days we had this in programming as well with palettes of drag & drop components.
It is kind of broken now, much thanks to using web applications (and applications that are basically just wrappers for web applications), but I don't know I if want to go back.
On one side it was much easier when I could hack together a program that was good enough (since everything was the same bland grey).
On the other hand some programs certainly looks nicer today.
And it has become easier to compose logic with solutions like Maven, Nuget and the various frontend package managers.
But yes, we lost drag and drop UI development, we lost consistency and we lost a lot of UX (at least temporarily).
I think there's a lot of potential for some more old-school UI in business software. People using points of sale, CRM/ERP/PLM/etc. systems, intranet portals, and so on don't really care about how nice it looks. Efficiency is more important.
Especially if it can be easy for non-technical people to build efficient UIs and databases (so they don't have to resort to spreadsheet contraptions), I think there's an opportunity here...
It absolutely isn't free here in Norway either, around $86 is what I'd have to pay now to get an id card as an adult (same price as a passport but easier to carry).
> That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of "good and bad", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast.
After paticipating in social media since the beginning I think this problem is not limited to LLMs.
There are certain things we can debunk all day every day and the only outcome isit happens again next day and this has been a problem since long before AI - and I personally think it started before social media as well.
> After paticipating in social media since the beginning I think this problem is not limited to LLMs.
Yup, but for LLMs the problem is worse... many more people trust LLMs and their output much more than they trust Infowars. And with basic media literacy education, you can fix people trusting bad sources... but you fundamentally can't fix an LLM, it cannot use preexisting knowledge (e.g. "Infowars = untrustworthy") or cues (domain recently registered, no imprint, bad English) on its own, neither during training nor during inference.
Let me present my take on why the federated alternatives struggle to replace X:
Twitter didn't succeed because it was a particularly good solution - it really isn't. It succeeded purely on the back of the network effect.
When every open-source alternative simply copies the existing restrictions without adding any unique value, why would users switch to an equally flawed version where none of the accounts they actually want to follow are?
My take is that Bluesky got the network effects right, with hyping and gradual release and careful curation of who seeded the network and that is - IMO - the important thing they got right.
It is really interesting for me to hear your experience.
I have lived in Norway all of my >45 years on this earth and I can say that in the first half of my life were I lived on the west coast, power outages was totally expected.
We had a generator, and we had a gas stove ("everyone" in Norway use electricity for cooking) for those days, a kerose lamp and a wood stove.
The longest power outage I experienced was 3 days, somewhere around 1986 I think, but a few hours could happen multiple times and overnight outages were not unusual.
Personally I ignore most ads but I have also bought some really good products based on ads and there are companies I wish would advertise more, for example relvant conferences that I only find out about because someone posted about their experiences being there.
In my case I was kinda OK with Google ads until around 2010 and IIRC only began blocking them actively after they had been feeding me trash ads for years.
Maybe you are right in most cases and I was the victim of a fluke.
But from what I have seen from Google after that I don't think so.
Facebook however, a company I disliked then and dislike now are scary good with their ads and have often been even even when I actively tried to avoid them.
All this to say that your theory sounds interesting but I am convinced it is far from the whole story.
It is kind of broken now, much thanks to using web applications (and applications that are basically just wrappers for web applications), but I don't know I if want to go back.
On one side it was much easier when I could hack together a program that was good enough (since everything was the same bland grey).
On the other hand some programs certainly looks nicer today.
And it has become easier to compose logic with solutions like Maven, Nuget and the various frontend package managers.
But yes, we lost drag and drop UI development, we lost consistency and we lost a lot of UX (at least temporarily).
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