Barrin92

53 ms·

961.
by Barrin92 2y ago
there's the old joke "It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to
962.
by Barrin92 2y ago
I didn't say my catch rate is 100%. But catching the people who are bad at it is the entire point. I don't care about not catching someone proficient enough they can hold up even in a direct conversation where they have to explain
963.
by Barrin92 2y ago
If you're doing this at least face to face over Zoom and you can't tell that someone is copying answers from their second monitor and throwing ChatGPT explanations at you, you honestly need a better interviewer. I've done a l
964.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>you could construct a synthetic reality for that brain that it would not be able to distinguish from its previous brain-in-a-body experiences. No. I'd recommend reading Dennett's Consciousness Explained for a longer treatmen
965.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>What's the difference? The pain receptors. The human brain doesn't just "have" pain receptors. Your entire body, including your brain, is one system. Your brain isn't piloting your body like a mech. This brain b
966.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>Roko’s Basilisk maps perfectly to Pascal’s Wager The entire thing maps 1:1 onto Millenarian theology, including the singularity and literal doomsday rhetoric. I think it was Charles Stross who called it duck typed Evangelicalism at one
967.
by Barrin92 2y ago
It's not really a misconception, this was Feuerbach's and also Nietzsche's or Stirner's criticism of Christianity. It projects human attributes on an ostensibly divine subject "othering" and worshipping them,
968.
by Barrin92 2y ago
> US strategy towards China as of late seems so defensive and even feels a bit desperate One funny reading that's been gaining traction among Chinese netizens over the last few years has been likening the US to the Trisolarians in L
969.
by Barrin92 2y ago
We're actually entering the timeline where you have to migrate to some Neal Stephenson Anathem-esque (digital) monastery where people cultivate knowledge. He really was onto this trend, in the newer Dodge books as well. Maybe this is
970.
by Barrin92 2y ago
I'm always bearish on social networks that have to poach creators, it's a sign that there's no underlying culture or authenticity. A related case is Twitch which people have been relatively negative about, but it seems pretty
971.
by Barrin92 2y ago
I don't even see the irony in the comparison to be honest, being the assembly line robot controller and repairman is quite literally a better job than doing what the robot does by hand. If you're working in a modern manufacturing
972.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>To me that sounds like a commercial success It isn't because it's not making them any money. Having users doesn't mean you have a business. If you sell two dollars for one dollar having more users is not a blessing financ
973.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>If we lived in a world where everyone, or even where most people, behaved reasonably If we're not living in a world where most people behave reasonably then the Chinese got it right and censored LLMs and kids scissors it is. I do
974.
by Barrin92 2y ago
There's a famous quip from the 2008 US election cycle, where Biden remarked that every sentence Rudy Giuliani forms consists of "a noun, a verb and 9/11". This is pretty much the same thing on a national scale. US discou
975.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>This is a problem with LLMs It's a problem with people using LLMs for something they're not supposed to be used for. If you want to read up on history grab some books from reputable authors, don't go to a generative AI mo
976.
by Barrin92 2y ago
Rousseau, Emile: "The essential thing is to be good to the people with whom one lives. Abroad, the Spartan was ambitious, avaricious. iniquitous. But disinterestedness, equity, and concord reigned within his walls. Distrust those cosm
977.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>Why read a book when AI can read it for you? because learning to read and to write is learning to think, and if you're the only person with some autonomy while everyone else regurgitates the same AI slop that's going to give y
978.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>I will never understand how you go back from a very customized editor setup because when the very customized setup inevitably breaks the amount of headache you have is roughly proportionate to the amount of customization, whereas softwa
979.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>but I hate that we're moving to a world where coding costs a subscription I mean you don't need to if you don't want to. I am gainfully employed as a software developer and what I do everyday is literally just fire up Ema
980.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>especially in a start up It's an example that Zizek has often given. The startup boss is more insidious than the old school boss because he's "just your pal". The traditional boss you can rebel against, in the startu
981.
by Barrin92 2y ago
at least that explains why it wants to do us in.
982.
by Barrin92 2y ago
> Is there really anything particularly Japanese about these women's methods or is it just Orientalist branding? I don't think these two are mutually exclusive, something can be authentically Japanese and be branded that way
983.
by Barrin92 2y ago
So much discussion about the factuality problems, the much more hilarious thing is the entire premise, outsourced faith. There they go and make an entire religion about human communion, screw that automated apologetics is much more efficien
984.
by Barrin92 2y ago
> I do not believe even a casual observer can uniformly answer “no” to the following; The only one I wouldn't uniformly answer "no" to is the last one as there's no real evidence for the first two and that one is at l
985.
by Barrin92 2y ago
You didn't even engage with what I said. You dismiss statements of a US senator because of the paper that reports them? Please address the actual argument, namely that in the US, when you hand platforms to people like Zuckerberg, you d
986.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>The content wasn’t at issue You sure about that one? ( https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato... ) Obviously the transfer of ownership was always about the content, and impli
987.
by Barrin92 2y ago
> You can already see how big is the social media influence on people, on their political views etc. If that is the reason for the ban, namely that American citizens cannot discern propaganda from factual information themselves and as a
988.
by Barrin92 2y ago
>The only sense in which banning one is anti-democratic is that it's selectively applied to tiktok instead of to all such platforms. This logic applies to all media publications, not just internet platforms in the United States. Whe
989.
by Barrin92 2y ago
I don't know if this is the thing to remember him for, but given that we're on a long running message board, Lynch actually also used to run one long after he was already famous, and it probably produced one of the most Lynchian v
990.
by Barrin92 2y ago
> just a stubborn contrarian pushing against the orthodoxy. It's not enough to be a contrarian, you also have to be right. Acknowledging that cigarettes are bad isn't "group think", it's an easy consensus because

More ›