An Error Occurred Alright

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot’s collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

A growing community is building a life with large language models.

In the face of technologies that sell us escapism at every turn, we need to build up tolerance for “inconvenience.”