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I don't think Turing knew about the existence of the lambda calculus when he wrote the paper. It was later that he decided to study his PhD under Church and move to Princeton.

A year ago he said that language models would never be able to explain why if you move a table, the bottle on top of it would not fall. He definitely had no idea what was coming wi…

I have been thinking a lot about it recently and I do think they are significant. If you look for example at chagpt4, it achieves a certain sort of intelligence. It gives you many …

This should be a required reading for everyone at OpenAI. If such simple programs can fool even intelligent people, I can't imagine what an infinitely more capable gpt4 will be abl…

I find Python and Haskell both very elegant.

People would get hooked to that worse than heroin lol. I recently fell for a girl and being without her definitely felt like having abstinence syndrome. I was obsessively and relen…

Sure, as more time goes on and the thing starts to become more evident. It will become clearer that bringing a human being into a dying world is a deeply immoral thing to do. It wi…

A being is conscious if and only if it feels like something to be that being. What you're referring to is self-consciousness. Goldfish are most surely conscious but not self-consci…

That doesn't sound dystopian at all. Got to love capitalism!

Throughout history, people have always avoided naturalism, almost at any cost. I think that this in part has to do with the crude reality it implies, it a very hard pill to swallow…

Nietzsche said the same thing as Schopenhauer, that reading too much may make you stupid in the end; and for the same reasons.

I always wonder. That has to be unsustainable, there is no way everybody can be borrowing like hell even for simple consumption and not having that collapse one moment.

Why would Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' presence increase the popularity of some programming language?

Of course, there is already an endless number of guns on people hands and basements. The fact that the US is the rich country with the highest murder rate is all the proof one need…

I work at a very large software company (which you know of) that has a corporate O'Reilly subscription and it was mentioned recently that DDIA was the most read book of the org.

Great book! I went trough it to better understand Turing's paper. The annotations in it and remarks of Turing's bugs help clarify a bunch of stuff. I would bet that the original re…

They will. People are already dying of climate change.

I hope fertility rates plummet because of this and population goes downhill fast. I can't see how people are deciding to have kids knowing how unaffordable everything is becoming.

The difference with revelation is that climate change is real. It is happening and will continue to happen.

Sure, but there you have an argument against economic libertarianism (no taxes) in any case.

Natural selection is a very powerful process.

I prefer code in the end because the flexibility is provides. At the end, a bunch of edge cases and weird situations that can't be handled by the simplified solution will arise, an…

It wouldn't surprise me to see humanity go extinct a few hundred years from now.

Endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility. A reasonable population size is more conducive to a good quality of life for everyone.

You're certainly not an iOS developer.