alt.hn

6/6/2026 at 11:46:43 AM

AI Can't Care

 https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3737

by mooreds

6/6/2026 at 4:53:28 PM

Correct. LLMs are technically semiotic infrastructure. Empirically proven with computational semiotics.

by spacebacon

6/7/2026 at 12:24:03 PM

You keep commenting this everywhere. Does it mean anything or did a long LLM session tell you that?

by trumpdong

6/7/2026 at 8:11:45 PM

[dead]

by spacebacon

6/6/2026 at 8:24:50 PM

Yes, and I think some people forget that the whole point of an application is to make that semiotic infrastructure into a coherent system.

LLMs are a great tool, but their misuse is delusional. We need to make a lot of tiny decisions that cannot be delegated away so easily and carelessly for those applications to work properly.

The push for AI just puts a spotlight on this decades-long power struggle to prioritize which decisions are more important. This isn't a new thing at all. I really wish people would get their heads out of the sand and open their eyes to the crumbling of the institutions they should be defending with a clearer mind. This isn't about human vs machine. This is about quality of results.

by sublinear

6/7/2026 at 4:50:09 AM

In a sense they do care. Anthropic / OpenAI care that your projects are successful because that means more revenue for themselves. Therefore, their models are designed to care that your products work.

by willtemperley

6/7/2026 at 5:51:09 AM

It seems to me the incentive, if anything, is to make the codebase so complex and “write-only” that developers become entirely dependent on LLMs to make any change whatever. They care that you keep burning tokens, not that those tokens accomplish anything for you.

by ultrarunner

6/7/2026 at 5:05:40 PM

That's fair. The companies do care about building a sustainable business. But so do the companies that sell lawnmowers.

I'm not sure that make either thing being sold (LLMs or machines to cut grass) able to care.

by mooreds

6/7/2026 at 5:21:08 PM

Not yet. Wait ‘til lawnmowers have LLMs installed.

by willtemperley