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In a sense, Aldous Huxley explored these ideas in his novel "Brave New World." [0] The novel describes a world were there is a rational order to human society, which has been engin…

Crypto: The only way to win is not to play.

I was not making an argument that the economy is zero-sum, or that Musk or Bezos did not build wealth. I merely pointed out methods they used to build their empires. For example, M…

Musk got a huge leg up through the government, whether it be tax credits, incentives, side-stepping regulations, etc. Bezos ran at a loss for so long it drove out actual and potent…

And don't forget: "hi" and "hello" are not the same.

Sam explains the situation on Mike Peace's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrFgOMfsmM (Mike is another wood turner.)

Sam Angelo (WYOMINGWOODTURNER on YouTube) seems to have had his Google email and YouTube account hacked. This has been devastating. Sam is the nicest soul who had 16 years of wood …

Can fully AI‑generated code be copyrightable? Is there evidence that the leaked code was AI-generated?

I would argue that no app/website should be selling itself to kids. No corporation should be trying to tether its ARR to children's attention.

> For me, AI tools act like supercharged ... search and auto complete. I think that is a fairly good definition of what an LLM is. I'd say the third leg of the definition is adjust…

Just like in "I, Robot?"

I tend to see humans as just another animal species, subject to pressures similar to those of other mammals. Whenever disease comes up it seems like vaccinations are the only facto…

Well, Palantir was taken.

As an official greybeard who has written much in C, C++, Perl, Python, and now Rust, I can say Rust is a wonderful systems programming language. Nothing at all like Perl, and as ot…

It looks nice. The movement is smooth and elegant. However, I really don't understand what the essential play loop is supposed to be. Is this about graphs? Calculus? Physics? Am I …

The challenge with long form texts is that they are so often picked apart, each piece quoted and analyzed on its own, without regard for how that small piece fits into the whole, o…

I just asked ChatGPT-5 to "give me a 16x16 PNG icon of an apple" and it did exactly that. It looks good, too. Not that I don't recognize the inherent limits of LLMs, but there are …

Has the XDG Base Directory Specification been adopted by an official standards committee? In my previous life, calling something a standard carried a great deal of weight. For exam…

At the risk of sounding dismissive -- this is all drama that amounts to nothing more than Internet entertainment. Legitimate claims of harm should be heard in court. Legitimate sci…

Another way to think about it is how interesting it is that humans can be so easily influenced by strings of words. (Or images, or sounds.) I suppose I would characterize it as so …

This is another great example of how LLMs are not really any sort of AI, or even proper knowledge representation. Not saying they don't have their uses (like souped up search and p…

Fun game! In the old days, code reuse was an aspirational goal. We had collections of functions, libraries, etc., but the overhead of reusing specific lines of code, or patterns of…

Indeed, it's nothing but function fitting.

But always remember, "Do not use a propane torch indoors." https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/baylisascaris/resources/raccoo...