“What we've learned by being excluded for we who are is to form a group that excludes others for not being exactly like us. This is social progress.”

It's great news. The only hope for these companies have is getting to monopoly enshittification before investors give up. This shows that timeline might be impossibly long.

Maybe? I think they keep banning them.

I thought it woud suck, but with the touch typing + consistent dictionary guessing, it's really on par with the random chaos of a touchscreen keyboard.

Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I'm curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn't prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?

My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can't really tell if someone's going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I'd be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.

Explain to me how it's better than you learning to analyze your own work from a formulaic perspective?

Everytime you choose to use AI, you are choosing NOT to develop an ability of your own. Sometimes, that's an ability that just tedious to use, other times it might be something you obviously need to do yourself, yet others the ability might be something with a tangential utility you haven't recognized.

An analogy might be reading music exclusively. Great, now you can play a wide range of music--indisputably beneficial!--but the cost of developing your own ear.

I'm thinking of getting a subscription and burning tokens out of spite.

I'm horrrfied that an LLM is your writing coach.

• a bluetooth remote if you don't want a really long cable

Hm. Would an old smart phone do in a pinch as a replacement roku?