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Excuse me for veering off topic but I saw this, was intrigued (I used to live in Lyon), browsed some of your previous comments here, saw the book Carmilla, which I'd never heard of…

Maybe this was tongue-in-cheek in a way that eludes me, but in case any innocent and curious bystanders are as confused as me by your comment, I'm not sure "Worse Is Better" refers…

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Va... -- section 9.3 of the Guix Reference Manual at least answers problem 1 for you, I believe. I think 2 is possible, an…

Lisp supremacy approaches! I'm reminded of definitively the most extreme writing on programming I've ever read, here https://llthw.common-lisp.dev/introduction.html , including but…

Ah, ok, you must be using agency in some new way I'm not aware of. Can you clarify what exactly you mean then when you say that "AI" (presumably you mean LLMs) has agency, and that…

It is not "an agent" in the sense you are implying here, it does not will, want, plan, none of those words apply meaningfully. It doesn't reason, or think, either. I'll be excited …

That's the thing, you don't have to say it, sort of by definition. It's always implied, as is its opposite. Imagine a video or article or whatever, titled: "How to get a Mediocre J…

HN in the Common Era 2025: "If you don't have rich parents, an alternative is to get a high-paying job".

> He spends months chiseling each essay I like Graham's writing, and defend it elsewhere in this thread, but that has such an obsequious and somehow macho smack to it, wow. One ima…

Successful people outgrowing their jodhpurs and losing their reason is a thing, sure, but that does not apply in this specific case. Tech writing is still writing, my friend. Have …

You mean, the CEO is only pretending to make the decisions, while secretly passing every decision through their LLM? If so, the danger there would be... Companies plodding along si…

I have never seen anything resembling emergent behaviour, as you call it, in my own or anyone else's use. It occasionally appears emergent to people with a poor conception of how i…

It might be the ultimate irony if we were training them. But we aren't, at least not in the sense that we train dogs. Dogs learn, and exhibit some form of intelligence. LLMs do not…

Have you considered throwing your thoughts down in longer form essays on the subject somewhere? With all the slop and hype, we need all the eloquence we can get. You had me at "pro…

I wonder if we'll look back on this period in a couple of years and feel a nostalgic fondness as we think of the fateful moment when people working in software were forced to pull …

Well ok then, agreed. Most people want what the advertisers tell them they want, absolutely.

Oh thank you, I'd never heard of Rick Roderick, he looks brilliant. Always thrilled to hear different accents in and around academia, too!

Funny, I said something similar at that parenthetical remark. I thought to myself - oh, it was only a little remark, no-one will catch it! So I'm a bit thrilled, the careful reader…

Hmm, but who is the "him" you're referring to? Still none the wiser as to what gave you the idea. I'm missing something here, perhaps some jargon eludes me...

Ah ok, I had misunderstood then, excuse me. That is not unreasonable at all as a metric of success. When you say professional, you mean philosophical journals, or what? My first th…

Oh, I suppose it makes sense that we'd need a word like that. Thanks!

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Have people seen this? https://noazureforapartheid.com/

No, I've no idea what that is. What's this now? Should I become The Fire Rises player?