Is This Anything? 20
Are you reading this + good at video? I have a half-desire to turn some of these posts into videos, or help someone else turn these posts into videos, but I don't really know where to start – if you do, please let me know.
Nowadays, if I see someone wearing semi-formal Western clothing, it's overwhelmingly likely that that person is doing a service job at a fancy venue, where the wealthy patrons will be dressed 1-5 levels less formally.
"The people who regularly wear upper class-coded outfits are generally working class" strikes me as an interesting example of.... symbolic drift?, I'm not sure what to call it. There's a funny possible outcome where 20 years from now black tie codes entirely as working class, like various other kinds of working uniform do.
I wonder about the history that got us to this spot: do the venues just keep ratcheting down their dress requirements for patrons, but keep their existing dress requirements for staff? Or are the dress codes for staff also becoming less formal, but from an even higher benchmark? Back in the day, was a butler meant to be dressed at the same level as his employer, or more formal, or less?
Many people have noted the annoying writing tics of LLMs: an overabundance of try-hard metaphors, mid-level Thesaurus Words, and forced rhetorical devices ("it's not X—it's Y").
Has anyone already pointed out that these are also hallmarks of writing by precocious teenagers?
If you've read (or written) emails by a pretentious high-schooler, you will presumably recognize the style. And analogously to social class markers, it's the lack of subtly that rankles those who see themselves as its betters.
Unconsciously, the problem people have with LLM writing is that it's gauche.
Does anyone know how I can directly train proprioception? I assume you can do it indirectly via ballet, aerial yoga and similar proprioception-heavy activities. But does anyone know of direct training techniques? I tried to search online but the answers feel slop-y (whether LLM or human-generated).