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All we can say is that the universe has been consistent so far, during the brief time we observed a small part of it given the instruments we have. We update our model(s) so that i…

Django allowing queries to be anywhere is more or less in line with Python’s overarching “we’re all consenting adults here” ethos. There’s probably one correct way to do it, but if…

When we give everyone a computer and want to restrict a group of people from some of its capabilities (for their own good), the consequence is a restricted computer. Not giving eve…

If tech is disrupting X, that’s a problem with X” tends to be said by people who have X comfortably sorted themselves (e.g., already have a PhD that counts as it’s from the pre-LLM…

Reducing your worth to mere productivity is myopic. Your worth is what you bring others, and while for some people it can include literal production for others it doesn’t have to. …

An exclusive choice between maintaining free will and agency vs. achieving some definition of “success” makes for a good story. You’d think the choice would be blindingly obvious, …

The argument that those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they “won’t be able to produce as much” hinges on more LoC being an objective good and typing speed being …

Measuring information entropy seems to have parallels with the incompleteness theorem and with the hard problem. As we approach the seams (so to speak) in our ability to model the …

I do remember that we are promised to work less thanks to this tech, and yet somehow the opposite happens. We have to work more, and we are paid less (if we are able to get a job).…

What’s this new trend with allegations how people have jobs for the sake of having jobs? People have jobs because this is an organised way for us to provide value to other humans a…

Personally I thought opening doors was about the only thing they did—never seen them engage in any other activity. I am not sure you provide a counter-argument, IMO offering more p…

To assume that the universe is disorderly presumes knowing some esoteric objective truth about how the universe works. Since the field of natural sciences does not provide that tru…

If comparing past industrialisation and automation events with hypothetical LLM dominance in the workforce, some of my questions would be: (0) how limited is the change to a specif…

When I was in Bangkok a good while back, I was surprised how there’re doormen at shopping mall—humans to handle simple things which in many parts of the world would certainly not i…

Looking just at ambient air temperature is an easy mistake to make. I used to be like that, always surprised why people whine so much near the coast in winter with their comfortabl…

“A memory begins with tiny changes inside the brain” as truth statement is a basic fallacy of naive physicalism. There is no falsifiable way to ascertain in which direction causali…

I’m not sure it’s possible to truthfully describe what we are missing in reality with a photo. You can publish a photo with default automatic JPEG processing, say by a phone, and i…

> How Big AI plans to profit from this inter­me­di­a­tion is an open ques­tion. One AI company has suggested taking a cut of AI-assisted discov­eries. The logis­tics and legal­i­ti…

Imagine sudoku with hundreds of subtle, sometimes mutually exclusive rules, and no single valid solution. This is not about LLMs, by the way. It’s about reviewing any code, includi…

Proper review should take longer than writing it yourself, because you need to know the correct solution, understand the proposed solution, and evaluate the difference between the …

> Is it really JS with type hints? I had thought it was really a different language that compiles to JS, like a less hardcore answer to Purescript. No experience with Purescript, b…

ML is real. Chatbots are real. “AI” is a marketing term that John McCarthy invented because he wanted more money for a summer study at Dartmouth—direct quote from him.

I tend to get triggered when TypeScript is painted as “JS with type hints”. Coming from Python background, TS and Python with type hints are just so different. With Python I can’t …