I don’t think there’s an inherent modern bias against the laconic traditional style. It actually sounds more in line with the simple sentences children learn in grade school. Really, that ‘traditional’ version is only missing a noun for the second part and then that’s sufficient for modern use. Could remove the last character, even.

I wonder how this accounts for regionalisms, let alone different Chinese dialects. Taiwanese Mandarin uses 研究 as a verb easily enough.

Entropyless? So you’re saying they’re highly efficient?

Rather unfortunate timing that the original Apollo moon landing also happened in the middle of the Vietnam War.

Well, when you zoom out a bit, it’s not a stretch to say that both Apollo and Vietnam shared the same goal of countering the USSR.

The Vietnam War was us violating Vietnamese sovereignty and self-determination and losing.

…and why did the United States feel the need to do so?

Honestly, that coincidence was NOT lost on me.

Part of me finds it inappropriate to do the two things at once. Advancement in scientific knowledge being somewhat at odds with blowing up one of the oldest civilizations in the World.

Your life must pass by really slowly with a lot of waiting if you don’t do more than one thing at a time.

It's a game of priorities I guess when resources are limited. And no: I can't do everything, everywhere, all at once. Can you?

Big rocks in the pickle jar first. For you that includes wars when talking was working?

And yet, employers love to use the "we're a family", "we're a team", and other such messaging, especially in the tech industry. They elide the transactional nature of the entire relationship.

You’re gonna have to try harder to sneak in the a priori assumption that LLMs have any character beyond which corporation deployed them.

Tech is just a series of arms races

I have to wonder how GenAI would have fared if these LLMs had become available anytime before 2020, during the “normal” tech bubble. It feels like the faith in it is as much to slash costs while appearing to be cutting-edge (and thus, worthy of what little investment is still available), as it is because of its capabilities. Where would we be if the tech industry wasn’t in such a dire state due to the end of ZIRP?

Because interest rates gone up, tech bubble hype now almost exclusively focuses on AI, and SaaS was commodified a decade ago?

Maybe they'll do something like what Anna’s Archive did