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You're right to push back. And honestly, this reframes the entire thing.

It doesn't seem to bode well that early 20-something year olds who think it would be cool if AI could read your thoughts are so involved in AI safety.

I don't have any delusions about that, LLMs are impressively good. But they bring with them a host of epistemological problems that I think we ignore at our own peril. A society th…

I feel like we're doomed to respond to these lazy analogies ad infinitum. Knowledge abstractions have historically been built by people with a detailed understanding of a problem d…

Mechanized production was designed by people to produce commodities and was designed with planned tradeoffs, tolerances, and failure modes. That’s not what agents are, though I get…

"Freedom" is and always has been incoherent. Rights and protections require enforcement by society. Every right creates a countervailing obligation and social function. Property ri…

Guess a lot of these guys heard about Little Saint James from the news.

To this point, I've never understood the supposed "alignment" between the EA/AI Safety crowd and Anthropic's mission that the author comments on. Be the stewards of the Machine God…

I don't think it's just a problem for kids! I think this is problem for many software engineers as well! Adults of all professions really.

It's like saying you can learn so much about math from using SymPy to solve equations. Yes, you probably can. If you pay close attention to what is happening and can integrate the …

If you can vibe code it, you can vibe deploy it, and deal with the consequences.

Society would certainly be better without people who judge others by their market value.

I think its fascinating how many people in tech think there's a clearly defined and agreed upon "right way" of using this technology that everyone knows and abides by. Paul Graham,…

Linguists centuries from now are going to wonder why everyone suddenly started writing like Paul Graham.

Running your code once or even dozens of times is not proof of correctness, see decades of software engineering practices around testing. I'm sorry, but all you guys pretending lik…

People keep saying this like it’s some meaningful point, but the reality is many people in different projects have a shared need for that code to work correctly, and there is a soc…

I'm less sure of the fact that ending subsidized token consumption (in isolation) will happen and change this. I think we've seen this play out before with other tech companies whe…

I think the counter-intuitive examples of people who attend that you and others in the replies are pointing out are a demonstration of how many contradictions exist in these princi…

These people in fact are some of the principal figures dictating the dominant culture and status quo.

Happy for everyone trying to invent SEO hacking for resumes.

That the industrial revolutions use of steel to augment or replace labor was similar in every way to using LLMs to do the same? Seems on point to me.

Famously Andrew Carnegie spent years trying to get the steel to stop talking about goblins.