The Beheading of Books and the Humanitarian Problem

We are witnessing an extraordinary battle between the light and the dark. Books are being beheaded by guillotine so that LLMs can learn faster. Ink is being replaced by light and pixels. This changes the human condition and constitutes a humanitarian crisis. By killing the books, we implicitly confirm that we believe it’s smart to trade serendipity for predictability. But the best things in human…