I don't know if the comparison is that close... I see what you're saying but it the severity of the terms just doesn't match up, linguistic drift does exist... but also one should probably consider the original context more broadly when making a comparison like this one.

For example, 'woke' is obviously being used by the right as a loaded pejorative, and it's a kind of naked dogwhistle appeal to the idea that the abolition of slavery was a bad thing. That might have sounded like a hyperbolic argument once, but based on recent political events it doesn't seem quite so farfetched any more.

Conversely, 'ruling class' is an appeal to historical events from a completely different direction. It's hard to argue that feudalism didn't exist, and America traditionally had a whole lot of cultural investment in the outcome of the French revolution, the idea that the republic arose out of a struggle by the people against the actual aristocrat class. The parallels people draw with this comparison really seem somewhat valid, in the 'second gilded age' kinda sense.

We're comfortable. Some folks are a lot less comfortable than we are. Even if their fears end up not being justified they're a lot more... pressing.

seeking* efficiency.

Ironically that's not the original meaning either, and I suspect if Sombart's ideas had played out we'd all be living in something other than capitalism already. The term was supposed to refer to everything post WW1 when he coined it, in the backdrop of the Weimar republic's terrible economic problems. Post WW2 we saw a complete new capital cycle play out, with the drama of the cold war ending up somewhat peripheral to it.

People might be observing that we're in another gilded age with some accuracy, but the original late stage capitalism concept relied on the Marxist belief that Marxist societies are an inevitable evolution of the capital structure... (which might be true-ish *in part* in terms of the interaction of individuals in aggregate seeing efficiency, but I suspect the German Marxists didn't really understand how much of their own culture and beliefs they were reading in).

These days it's just sort of a catchall term for the pointlessness of hustle culture, I guess.

We... do use those methods, but not exclusively?

Some functions are not purely semantic. Given how language models actually rely on this perception to work, it's sort of dangerous to commit too hard to that line of thinking IMO.

As per the wiki, the name was reused by unrelated companies long after the original LimeWire imploded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Honestly just as likely an explanation as any other.

The idea that their folks can 'program' a black box model is just as ridiculous as the idea our folks can, except by doing things they will never be able to make cost effective like actually curating each training set down to the word relationship. Random skews for unknown reasons that lead people to build cargo cult narratives should be expected eh.

yeah now instead of babysitting people who are being irresponsible with their development projects, I get to babysit people who are babysitting an AI that they are using to be irresponsible with their development projects.

taking anthormorphism into account... absolutely yes.

It's also deeper than that though... seems like you're thinking of ideas as the atomic components that LLMs use, but they actually use word-parts and associations between them. Model collapse can be much more uh... interesting than just having them constantly come up with false statements.

It sounds like you want a search engine. You want to be able to index your own documents with a search engine, right?

Do you really need to have a conversation with the search engine in which it can misunderstand what you're trying to say, based on some association it learned from reddit posts?

Technically you can do what you're asking, but it's less efficient and more prone to error than just using a search engine... which you can also set up locally yourself.

Using the word 'programming' in the headline is a stretch to the point of tearing

All the weaknesses of a human who reasons entirely with semantics, none of the ability to be held accountable or understand incentives.

it's just a gig economy site where people can charge $5 (or more, or i guess less...?) for whatever service they're advertising

some of it is people who are memes and who profit off being memes, but it seems like the vast majority is people stealing graphic design templates.

Fair enough. I feel like that's pretty much the kind of thing i'm skeptical of though.

The only thing I've seen so far is journalists talk about it in hype-building tones... you know, as if they expected it to engage an audience with the drama.

I know there are a bunch of delayed releases due to it, but that's not the same thing as people hating on it... But I'm looking at an IGN article now and comparing it to the actual text of one of the conversations they cited as evidence that people are mad, and they had to spin several developers saying that the game is good value into complaints about what they can charge for their own games... which doesn't seem to be the context in which the statements were made.

I know you aren't completely out of touch here, so let me know if you have something obvious I'm not seeing... It still feels like it's journalists trying to drive this narrative to me though, I haven't heard anything but positivity from folks I know in the scene.

Chances are they'll put out a half dozen dlc packs (for free) and transform parts of the story in the process. That's how it was with the first one anyway.

At that point it'll still be up to you if you wanna update it, of course.