archagon

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by archagon 2mo ago
Why are you posting such cliche responses? There is literally nothing to see in this subthread.
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by archagon 2mo ago
All this completely ignores the cataclysmic negative externalities, including environmental costs, knowledge atrophy and workforce erosion, accelerated burnout, slop-pollution of the open internet, shifting of power from engineers to manage
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by archagon 2mo ago
Ok but none of those articles are remotely interesting . At least if you’re into the science part of computer science — algorithms, data flow, software and hardware architecture, intimate knowledge of the machine — and not just productivit
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by archagon 2mo ago
An AI is not an abstraction. It is not remotely the same thing as a compiler!
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by archagon 3mo ago
No fucking way, that rooster is awesome. The winner makes me want to avoid the slopfair at all costs.
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by archagon 3mo ago
It’s also not possible to make super bespoke interfaces without going against the grain of the framework: anathema to old school AppKit and UIKit devs.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Hey, remember Naomi Wu? She used to post a lot here. I wonder whatever happened to her?
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by archagon 3mo ago
I am making an argument based on the fundamental nature of the tool, which is to make stochastic, unvetted decisions our behalf — categorically different from everything else in our toolbox. The technical and social repercussions to this ar
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by archagon 3mo ago
Two mitigations: a) Add a license prohibiting LLM training. (Or maybe allow it, but only if the output for that LLM has the same license and distribution as the trained-on code.) b) Inject "wards" throughout the code, similar to w
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by archagon 3mo ago
You think that not a single powerful country in the world will get enough pissed-off people in power to successfully sue LLM labs for (blatant and willful) copyright infringement? Especially if they succeed in decimating the job market? How
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by archagon 3mo ago
Code is communication. Open source is community. Engineering is understanding systems in depth. LLMs fundamentally hinder all three. I'm not sure you even need to look much further than that.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Entitlement, insecurity, a demand to be treated as a "real" engineer while understanding only a fraction of the code you produce.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Was there some sort of investigation I was not aware of?
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by archagon 3mo ago
It’s because the stupid amendment is ambiguous. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Technically , it could be argued that the M
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by archagon 3mo ago
However, Wilson made her translation using strict iambic pentameter and matching line count to retain the pace of the original poem. That brings something new to the table. And IIRC her simplified language is supposed to better match the na
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by archagon 3mo ago
A sample of some, uh, politically incorrect stuff Musk said recently: * "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" * "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer) * "De
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by archagon 3mo ago
Wilson wrote in great and excruciating detail about why she chose “complicated” as the translation, yet you dismiss it as if if was some sort of casual, thoughtless decision: https://emily613.substack.com/p/on-complicat
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by archagon 3mo ago
“a movie series that's as good as the source material” Is it? I loved LOTR during my first watch, then many years later actually read the books and tried watching it again. Many of the changes that Jackson made in service of commercial
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by archagon 3mo ago
Ditto.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Pretty much anyone worth listening to agrees that Wilson’s translation is excellent.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Just for fun, some recent Musk highlights from Twitter: * "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" * "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer) * "Deal with traito
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by archagon 3mo ago
Thank you for RTINGS, it’s an absolute gold mine for picky comparison shoppers.
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by archagon 3mo ago
No, people aren't going to get over it. Prepare to adjust your expectations.
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by archagon 3mo ago
I genuinely have no idea what you mean or what talking point this might be referring to. Bluesky, from my daily use, seems like it’s thriving and full of varied and interesting people.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Do you think 99.9% of people will elect to just lay down and die?
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by archagon 3mo ago
Uh, what are you talking about? I know almost no one who supports “open borders.”
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by archagon 3mo ago
OK… but… how did it “know”? If there’s no way to verify the data (e.g. look at the photo of the power brick it unearthed somewhere) then there’s a good chance it just synthesized an answer.
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by archagon 3mo ago
As an anti-AI booster, I admit that I'm quite insecure, too. And angry. But man, these endless threads with folks endlessly hyping their productivity gains and haranguing others for going against the grain are just blatantly pathologic
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by archagon 3mo ago
I’m sure that the people making this kind of argument would be quite pissed indeed if I trained an LLM on their proprietary code and used it for my commercial projects.
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by archagon 3mo ago
Dig down and I think you’ll find that AI boosters are really quite insecure.

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