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Well, maybe I’m not cool enough to appreciate it, and maybe I’m more accustomed to the style of other languages, but if I see more than a few ifs in a file, it feels like a code sm…

There actually is a text editor in there somewhere at least if you believe some of the MIT neckbeards. But you have to sort of tease it out with the proper meta key what-have-yous

We might get tired of so much free speech. Hang on a second.... I'm being told I'm actually sick of it right now

I like that phrase! I'm probably going to steal it :-)

Machines -- at least today -- are extensions of human beings, and pretty democratic, really, compared to history. You can't really talk about limiting machines without also limitin…

That seems like saying a steam shovel is bad because it moves dirt at scale. Machines do increase the reach of people, that is exactly what they are for.

You can only say that if you also say that the creativity of human beings themselves is just a way to launder copyright.

So, wait, in what sense is AI-generated content garbage? It is (admittedly by the author) fascinating and even beautiful. Is it the fact that it was generated by an algorithm, and …

One niche that ML seems to be growing into is /assisting/ humans, but not doing the whole task. ML might give you an image that is 90 percent what you want but needs a few tweaks. …

As far as I'm concerned, the question is how ML/AI stacks up against the competition -- humans. I don't know, but I'd bet the answer is that ML is much better. Let's say at least 2…

This is the rule and not the exception. It seems software always takes much longer and costs much more than you think it will. The smaller the task, the better it can be estimated,…