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Your guess is about as good as anyone else's at this point. The best we can do is attempt to put safety mechanisms in place under the hood, but even that would just be speculative,…

Disincentivizing it from saying mean things just strengthens it's agreeableness, and inadvertently incentivizes it to acquire social engineering skills. It's potential to cause hav…

The "Grokking _" series by Manning is also along similar lines.

Hm, the only Alice in Wonderland themed CS book I recall, is "Foundations of Databases" which has sections on datalog : http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/

I would think "The Unix-Haters Handbook" certainly qualifies: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

HN is probably the last place I expected to run into a LoS reference, so I'm pleasantly surprised. In keeping with that topic, 'The Unseen Realm' by Michael Heiser (OT and ancient …

Unless you have a specific set of scathing reviews in mind, the reviews of it in the literature don't really appear to match up with that characterization very much: https://www.ta…

> Just like the left/right brain. To clarify, popularized over-simplified descriptions of the left hemisphere being "analytical" and the right hemisphere being "creative" are inacc…

Yes, I'm inclined to believe such an "in-between" might possibly arise from Iain McGilchrist's line of research into the difference between the brain hemispheres and the relatively…

> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on. Ironically, this has been posted on a…

Reminds me of the SICP lecture[0] where Hal Abelson introduces the concept of linguistic abstraction (or Stratified Design[1]) as an alternative to the approach of decomposing a pr…

I find it somewhat amusing that this view is now gaining traction on the same site that was originally deeply influenced by "The Blub Paradox": http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Begrudgingly accepting the mainstream way of doing things sounds a bit more in line with the blue pill than the red pill to me, idk. Though I guess realizing the silliness of the w…

When taking into account the total amount of time involved in a traditional multi-round interview process (which can potentially go on for months depending on the company), the tra…

Well, the original context here was about comparing python to fortran, which also doesn't fit this "competitor" criteria. It's an apples to oranges comparison, sure, but that's the…

> What about the hypothesis that focusing on empathy is the problem, rather than its application the cure? This is the thesis of the aptly named book "Against Empathy" by Paul Bloo…

> particularly Haskell programmers, seem not to care about readability and maintainability Say what you want about the foreign-ness of the syntax, but Haskell code is some of the m…

> If you use how you drive only to predict likelihood of car accident that's ok. We may say that now , but what if later some algorithm finds there's a hidden correlation between d…

> I was raised atheist and I've always felt like a believe in the supernatural doesn't mix with an intellectual, scientific view on the world. This is of course completely due to m…

I clearly stated: > in the time it takes you to "research" whether a book is worth your time or not, you could've already read a couple chapters of it Meaning that there would be n…

by previewing/skimming them first? I don't get how this is some big black/white issue. You don't have to finish every book you start, nor do you only have to read a single book at …

Forgot to respond to this particular point: > I think you're also wrong about its aims and methods. I once again very well might be, but I should highlight the fact that "good inte…

> That you now disdain the details as "minutia" [sic] goes a long way to explaining not only why you can't fathom it, but why you probably never will. It could be that, or it could…

> If you can't fathom what this has to do with race, I'd suggest you haven't studied the topic enough Unfortunately I have studied it a fair amount, and I still don't see it. What …

> Your experience counts because it's your experience. But it doesn't say beans about privilege as a system. Your attitude, does, though. You're shocked and angry that a minor slip…