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The "Socratic Method" (aka maieutic) skills annoy me, precisely because when you read them they are the kind of low-effort, low-expertise crap someone who over relies on AI would n…

This. This is exactly how I use them and I have had no issues so far. I read the book myself, then I point the LLM at it to ask questions about notions I might be struggling with.

Ugh, you're right! I read too quickly. Please disregard me OP. I'll leave the comment here just in case it clarifies things for poor readers such as myself lol.

I would say start with software architecture books for large or highly distributed systems. This will get you thinking beyond code level to system component level with subject matt…

So, while it's true that your runs with high speed and distance when both are considered are Pareto points, your max speed run and max distance run overall are also Pareto points. …

Yes, the difference between coding (writing software) and engineering (making informed trade offs about system design) is effectively bound up in analyses like those supported by c…

One nuance that people sometimes miss is that pareto optimality in the continuous case and discrete case are distinct. Using continuous case algorithms on discrete feasible set opt…

I don't think it's possible to eliminate cognitive debt when using LLMs, but you can definitely minimize it. Part of this means recognizing that you will only get, say, a 2x produc…

#3 just means the person is going to stop asking you when they realize that: a. You bring no expertise beyond asking an LLm for the answer. b. They can just do that themselves. If …

I think there is a clear distinction to make in the case of communications. Yes, if you are writing a longer piece of communication and you just verbatim ship whatever the LLM spit…

Pragmatically, the range of application for a fuzzer and for an LLM are so widely different that I'm not sure it makes any kind of pragmatic sense to compare the two. Also, I don't…

I completely agree. All crediting LLMs does is give the companies that built them precisely the kind of ego stroking feedback they want. I bet Dario giggles with excitement every t…

I don't have a problem with Diataxis itself but every time it comes up it saddens me because it is a reminder of how bad the technical writing community (by which, here I mean peop…

Yeah, this letter is just proof of (the by now long standing fact) of corporate power/corporate capture of American governance. Tons of popular protests against big AI? Makes no di…

Yes because the keystrokes aren't free and the world is finite. We need to pay these monkeys in bananas.

Probably because claude suggested some kind of wack react based setup early on (because react dominates the training data) and it's be blasphemy worthy of termination for the Anthr…

> to be more specific, i'd argue LLMs “understand” awfully similarly to a brilliant (polymath) with early dementia or Alzheimer' At which point i'd argue that you're kind of refuti…

I'm really starting to tire of people making broad, general claims about how LLMs work or how to use them with N = 1 or 2. An LLM is a statistics machine for goodness sake. Basical…

I don't know enough about the quantum level to really understand whether or not that would change my view of things. From Shannon's theory, it's abundantly clear that "information"…

What a stupid list. Heavily biased. I'd just like to point out that a large bulk of these papers depend on the existence of the computer and yet Alan Turing is not even on the list…

You are missing the point. Let me use "fabulashinaism" which is a theory I just made up that posits that the universe is made up of little gnomes called atoms. There is a sense in …

Let me try again. We use miles to measure distance. Hopefully you agree with me that, miles, being a system of measurement to express relationships of distance, have no ontological…

At a glance, this seems heavily recency-biased and not adjusted for inflation. I would expect a lot of other names that predate the 21st century to be on the list. The methodology …

Yeah, but my point is that "information" is not really a substantive concept. It is an abstraction. It is a useful technical tool. For the record, I am a nominalist when it comes t…

Sure, others would also claim the "financial view" of the universe has also provided insight. That doesn't mean I go around claiming the money is some fundamental universal substan…