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I think the conclusions are a bit overstated and lopsided. Regardless of the sycophancy (which you can tune), LLMs have infinite patience and attention to details. They also have v…

Yes, but that didn't translate to 'lots of free time'. We went on to do other stuff, like fast food, advertisement, entertainment, financial work, etc.

Why? What is he referencing? I can't find anything as controversial as this with an online search.

Robots being able to perform any task a human can do, physically, doesn't seem that far off. They would be powered by AI of course. The question is: do we still have to work? If no…

or 3: cease your assault of the international order, drop the zero sum paradigm and take the opportunity given by these crumbling US-build institutions to build a truly global netw…

Exactly. The 'whole self' also includes a deliberate thinking mind. People often equate feeling free and being yourself with losing all inhibitions and restraint. That may free gre…

A computer not, but a LLM model does learn. The original text in no way exists 'in the model', and the model does not copy-paste it and resell the original text. Not the same, but …

Ideas are not protected by copyright, nor are facts. You need to have a very specific and 'creative' / 'substantial' expression of an idea for copyright to apply. The output of an …

Thank you for this, I've noticed this often in politics and didn't know it has a name. Some politicians do this so often, that any accusation to me reads a confession instead.

A more rigorous definition of software quality can be found in ISO 25010. > The quality of a system is the degree to which the system satisfies the stated and implied needs of its …

The money isn't really for the researchers personally, but for doing the research. They are merely offered a job at a time where their jobs are on the line in the USA. And not even…

> figuring out exactly how to work it into our particular business This is the most crucial bit. Neither ramming it down developers throats nor rejecting it wholesale is particular…

And not few of those 'productivity improvements' for farmers have had disastrous consequences, even though what I think you are referring to has been implemented with far greater d…

I have a different mental model because I live in a high trust society. Well, at least higher than the US. In my model, the government is basically a virtual contract between all p…

That's the worst thing. You need to take a job to have money. You need to buy food to eat, pay housing, clothing, insurance, etc. Yet you don't get to determine these prices. The '…

You don't need no guarantee nor even trust if you have openweights, that's the beauty of it. The real question is: what guarantee do we have from Trump that he won't pull away the …

No doubt there are some feelings involved in geopolitics. However, if your mental model of global trade and politics doesn't go beyond comparing Europe to a toddler having tantrum,…

Imposter syndrome maybe? In a way, nothing is complex at the point where you have untangled it, by definition. Software development is, after all, the art of untangling complexity.…

> Private companies don’t have the ability to ruin your life in the same way your own government does. They just want your money. And what happens when your money is gone? What hap…

When people say they prefer 'the syntax', I think they usually mean a bit more than just that: at least a fair bit of this is semantics. Python provides a lot of features out of th…

We all tend to assume AI will only ever be good at the execute part, but what if AI will also be good at decide-deliver? What if some day, we could put AI in charge of not only run…

Humans make mistakes too, does it mean humans are unusable? We accept as empirical fast that most production quality code has 2 - 10 bugs per 1k LoC. According to your premise, vir…

The 'vote' is real. But it is 'darwinian'. It's not that animals develop a certain adaptation on purpose in order to survive. Instead, out of many random changes an adaptation emer…

And we still let tobacco companies spread their products, which are practically speaking as harmful as they ever were, maybe even more so considering their environmental impact as …

Brilliant conversation. "Would you let kids gamble?" - "It sounds very fun and obvious." "To be clear, we think it's a horrible idea!"