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While it would certainly help, you perhaps underestimate the numbers of young people who would vote in support of continued irreparable damage.

Similarish trajectory, and I bought the "new" C64 as soon as it was available and display it proudly. I started with a Vic 20 first (and Gorf), and I learned assembly as soon as I …

It's a well done and thought-provoking article. The reality is that most humans do very little actual thinking of their own anyway, and, if you believe that what LLMs produce const…

I asked it a question about indoor carbon dioxide levels (wholly innocuous question), which it flagged as involving biology, therefore downgraded to Opus. It's a pretty good strate…

emacs -nw takes about 2 seconds on my mac. I don't use server/daemon, and those 2 seconds are processing my startup elisp files (it's ready nearly instantly without prepping my jun…

A government sign off on release potentially reduces liability/exposure if the models can do what it says on the box. I’m sure Anthro wants this applied to everyone and not only th…

I'm sure that's a fine take if you decide that "Massively Multiplayer" doesn't mean "Massively Multiplayer".

I guess we'll just call anything MMO now.

> Users don’t care Suppose one proved that a sizable mass of people don't care whether they eat dog food. There are people who won't feed them dog food even so. There are people wh…

It still amuses me, but Andrei's books were the "last straw" that pushed me away from C++ for many years. Great books, truly, and they helped cement the notion that I wanted to mov…

The GPL, unlike the BSD and such, intends to prevent the closing of distributed derivative works. LLMs trained on GPL code can produce derivative works without any enforcement mech…

I've bought (and cracked open) more programming books in the past year than I had in the previous 10. I'm nobody?

You could have just said “No”, if you had to say anything at all, rather than continuing the behavior. Actively rude.

If you can't do the job without AI, you can't do the job. Spoiler alert: if you can't do the job, you're not going to be doing the job much longer.

Adding your own garbage to someone else's URLs is in fact the problem. Could they handle your garbage better? Sure. Is your garbage still a problem? Yes.

"He's old and I don't like what he thinks therefore he is wrong" contributes nothing useful to anyone. Richard's remarks have plenty of gaps to drive a reason train through, but th…

The sooner you understand the models are not intelligent (yet?), the sooner you can avoid acting like it’s their fault.

Memories! I loved Galway and Hubbard (and tigers and bears oh my etc). They managed to do some really interesting things under the constraints. Still love listening to some of it, …

Much of the USA accepts "gun deaths" as an unfortunate but acceptable price that must be paid for the widespread freedom to own guns. When those same people are hysterical about Pr…

"The Moral" section seemed to quite explicitly state the "real point".

> I would assume this could be described in a formal language The assumption is the first problem, no? If the formal language is complete, it must be inconsistent. If it is consist…

In much the same way that buying produce makes you a great farmer.

A few years younger than OP, and started programming somewhere around 1982. The technology is obviously interesting, the capabilities are fascinating. I use LLMs a very large porti…

Why the constant chasing after universally applicable generalizations? Some of them are pandering. Some aren't. Some care. Some don't. Businesses with ferocious funding needs are v…

Not the first time I've read descriptions of this kind of behavior (let's call it social conformity) presented as perfectly normal, and I read comments (here and elsewhere) that la…