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I mean, I think the point is, every discipline isn't ever that discipline in a vacuum, it touches the real world, and we build meta-structures around said things that may not look …

To be fair, Ghidra was released in 2019 and in general knowledge was still hard to find even back in 2010 I feel (well, compared to 2026 in the age of AI)

Blame Descartes? I don't know. Extended theories of cognition all get shot down, even analytic philosophers who are accused of being more "continental" still primarily hold mind-bo…

Yooo is this the CMU funny guy?

Is irc still a thing nowadays? My dream is to find some niche 25 person irc channel and just shoot the shit at 3am lol.

I personally think that this kind of behavior is necessary, unavoidable, and actually good for society, precisely because no one has access to this thing called "rationality", if i…

I don't directly interpret Camus, but I think to my interpretation of Dostoevsky's underground man. He knows he's irrational, can "rationally prove" he's irrational, yet still live…

XY problem, don't expand the design doc before you have the idea for the design. Don't compile down into lower abstraction levels until necessary

A lot of bias here around non-extended theories of cognition. We're already well past the point of trying to correspond the internal "brain chemistry" of an LLM to a thing called "…

I can't tell if you're joking or not, but this is a legit position and I don't think it's that crazy. The alternative is to posit that you know the True Definition of thinking, whi…

I looked this up, and sure enough, Ernst Mach was the one who lead the charge (a self proclaimed positivist, which is a position that many scientists would gladly say they support)…

Yeah I have my own forks for it, it's just annoying since usually I want to just install things on a machine and just "have it work". Mosh is also extra annoying because it depends…

Looking really cynically, it does seem like it might transition into some kind of cloud-development situation. Your "one access to all development" is one ssh away from our mega 24…

I feel like the main benefit of such a thing would be centralization. Part of the issue with the terminal ecosystem is precisely that everything's so fragmented and everybody needs…

Yeah I remember being in sophomore year of college, watching Anders Hejlsberg's video on "the new way to build compilers" or something and having my mind blown. But I only ever loo…

I've always thought this was fascinating, but the only incremental compilation I knew was obscure programming languages and Rust. Oh yeah, I guess Roslyn? Really fun and fascinatin…

The more technical you get, the more subsitutable you become - or at least, people think of it in that way, because the whole idea is "It's not me, or the people, it's the raw tech…

To further onto this, humans could technically simulate Turing machines themselves but they don't. Efficiency and finding the right abstractions and tradeoffs is literally identica…

Following this. my plan has been to start simple and eventually build out the inference stack piece by piece, however simple. Take some open weights model and from first principles…

I'm curious if it's possible in general for an AI to achieve this without some evolutionary forcing function that actually threatens their "biology". Not talking about prompting Cl…

Do people actually do systems design with control theory? I know the authoritative question to possibility - yes, my company does it. But I'm wondering about say, an industry stand…

This is how it is with all of these guys, their only principle is "what's good for me", and will twist all narratives to fit it

I will readily admit that I didn't read Dostoevsky, and I don't continue to read Dostoevsky, because I've compared him against a swath of other fiction writers and authoritatively …