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I'm a data scientist, software engineer, etc. I use AI all the time. But when I create something for human consumption, I write it by hand. When someone gives me something written …

I will literally never believe that Meta gives a shit about the future. Their reputation is so far in the toilet from my point of view that it is already in the sewer.

Here is some feedback: don't put slop in your readme. It's unreadable.

Facebook is a pox on civilization, so one possibility is just firing it into the sun.

Pretty sure this isn't what they are teaching at the best business schools.

I think the main difference is that radium was new and people have been using psychedelics forever.

> just living in some rural area with limited participation in real life They might say the same thing about your lifestyle. The "reward structure of society" is highly abstract th…

I think this is more of an example of what arguments you are exposed to. We typically only see the most superficial version of our opponents arguments and we see complex versions o…

I sympathetic to this perspective, as a parent, but also, there are just a lot of kids out there with bad parents. My personal philosophy is that parents have a duty to raise their…

I can't remember taking a worldwide vote on the subject.

Who is the "we" who decided to go with it?

Yeah, but it used to be like a good drug and now its like a bad drug.

I appreciate the attempt to hide the AI slop style of the documentation, but it still very difficult to read and understand.

Yeah. I am a professor and I see a lot of other professors saying they are pivoting to "Teaching AI". I tell them I am pivoting harder to teaching fundamentals because using AI is …

Not the west, just rich people in the west.

I'm an absolute atheist and philosophical nihilist and I have done psychedelics and I've never had a problem with them. Typically find the experiences positive. So we have at least…

I find Lisp much easier to read than most other languages. It is highly explicit syntax with very little ambiguity, especially if you have a little discipline about macros.

R6RS.

People should never use non-hygienic macro systems anyway, but even if they are using a non-hygienic macro, they should always use proper hygiene. Its kind of dumb to make the whol…

I am a strong proponent of Lisp 1, primarily because the distinction between functions and other types of values is artificial. Functions have first class semantics in Lisp 1 and L…

God, who the fuck are they even writing this slop for? Other machines? Neat. Maybe even deeply interesting. Absolutely garbage write up.

Typically surveys are adjusted for sampling biases before reporting. That appears to be the case here. So there is usually some attempt to account for the biases in the sampled pop…

I know there are different contexts, but a tensor is not a collection of numbers, in a mathematical sense. A vector is not a list of numbers. Such collections of numbers are repres…

Run your agents in podman containers.

Well, sure, but if you want to accept those things you have to revoke the idea that distances and times are observer independent quantities. Even physicists fail to understand this…