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I agree, real intelligence may also potentially be explained as all "math and probability", whether it's neurons or atoms. A key difference between our brains and LLMs is that the …

That's reasonable, I certainly believe that there are many fake and manipulative people who say what's best for their personal gain, perhaps even the majority. But I still think it…

I'm not highly concerned but I think there is merit in at least contemplating this problem. I believe that it would be better to reduce suffering in animals, but I am not vegan bec…

Those are good points and that's why progress is not guaranteed or trivial, just plausible.

When you put it like that, it makes me wonder if we can just stick to using the self-driving cars in the Bay Area and not go to these bad and dangerous places.

I agree with this, it reminds me of how most people don't need to write assembly anymore, but it still helps with certain projects to have that understanding of what's going on. So…

This sounds like an assignment to learn to use LLMs, which as an isolated assignment sounds reasonable. Students should learn how to use tools of all kinds to maximize their effect…

Even as AI generates more writing and code, we still have a way of ranking quality: Good writing and successful projects tend to get more popular and prominent. This selection can …

It really depends what I'm building, and I find that these are often additional tasks that are done later after the core functionality is validated. I've most often built apps used…

I'm saying from the perspective of someone overseeing a frontend dev, that I can just try out the app feature and see if things seem to be working as expected. Though as you mentio…

This isn't really true, everyone has a different basal metabolic rate, and effectiveness with absorbing calories from food can vary as well. Even small differences can add up to la…

I find that frontend takes most of the dev time for most apps, and I certainly consider it "harder" to get everything working to the quality level I want. However, backend work is …

Related to taking tiny steps, I've set up a daily habit checklist with the lowest bar possible, even lower than the author's suggested log statement. When it comes to software dev,…

This seems like a case of selection bias, where they are looking at all the Gen AI startups and seeing that they are making revenue faster than previous startups. But Gen AI startu…