I don't know the details of DeepSeek and OpenAI o3, but I know that even older models have to run the entire model for each word they produce. That seems pretty inefficient. And also, I think I heard that LLMs are now taking a nontrivial proportion of the world's energy (and hence carbon footprint)--as much as some small countries. Add to that that their apparent benefits are dubious--they take human jobs, they're prone to inaccuracies that sound believable, or making programs with subtle bugs, etc. And now we can't tell what's actually human-produced vs what's AI-produced, like for example news articles...and some students' essays are being incorrectly flagged as probable AI, which threatens their entire education. And so on.

I'm kind of proud, but I also kind of feel like a loser. I won't get my life on track--I feel like I can't--but I do have a sophisticated intellect, I'm a good philosopher, and I've managed to avoid the common pitfall of scientism, physicalism, radical skepticism/denialism, etc. And I know spiritual truth when I see it, which makes me more aware (at least as far as theory goes) than the vast majority of people. Oh, and I'm also proud of my scribbles3 program, https://github.com/inhahe/scribbles3 , and the algorithms I've come up with...I figured out the popular efficient algorithm for converting one numeric base to another on my own (and my program converts the decimal part of the number, too, and detects repeating decimals), I figured out the most efficient way of finding all the prime numbers within a range (besides the sieve method), I figured out a memory allocation algorithm, with no prior knowledge of how memory allocation works, that I later discovered somebody else had also discovered and that was then implemented in the Linux kernel. And there's one other algorithm named after somebody that I independently discovered, but I can't remember what it was atm.

Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
A: I don't know and I don't care.
Idk, to me, stupidity and evil are the two biggest causes of problems and suffering in society, but dumbness/stupidity is actually relative. To a hamster, humans are super smart. To someone of above-average intelligence like you and me, most humans are dumb. And, of course, probably most humans of average intelligence think most other humans are dumber than them...
As for carelessness, people don't seem particularly careless to me, by and large, but I suppose more carefulness wouldn't hurt in a lot of cases. But if you consider disregard for others to be carelessness, then yeah, carelessness is a big problem.

I wear wind pants (i.e., windbreaker pants) because they're more convenient, I don't have to worry about getting the exact right size, when my size tends to fluctuate. A long time ago I used to wear exclusively green jeans, but I switched to Dickie's when I got a job at the post office, and then I guess I switched to wind pants after that. I also have a couple that are like wind pants but thicker--I'm wearing one right now. I also have a pair of white "beach pants." I prefer colorful wind pants, like with patterns or at least all blue/green/blue-green, and I have a few, but most of them are black because black is the easiest to find.

I don't know enough about the name to have any opinion. AFAIK, they named it after some famous astronomer. Why are they disputing it? Was there a more famous astronomer they should have named it after? That would be a bad reason. Or did James Webb do something that was un-woke and get canceled? As for the telescope, it's cool. Just progress as usual - the new Hubble. I remember there was a setback, a defect in the main mirror when it came out, but they fixed it, or at least partially fixed it. The mirror was warped, and they installed a smaller mirror that it reflects off of that was warped in just the right way to counter the warpedness of the main mirror. But I don't hold that against them...it's almost expected for something to go wrong. Pulling off a project like the James Webb telescope is a miracle of human engineering.