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by bccdee 1y ago
> Forcing Apple to change core tenets of iOS by legislative means would undermine what made the iPhone successful. Even if this is true… so what? Perhaps the App Store monopoly has helped make the iPhone successful, but that doesn't
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by bccdee 1y ago
Siskind is a practicing psychiatrist, which is relevant to his profile. Using his real name makes it possible to discuss that. Putting Kendrick's surname ("Duckworth") into the profile adds nothing. Siskind is a public figure
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by bccdee 1y ago
Here's my issue, though: Consider that our thoughts are encoded in physical matter. Something about the arrangement of the chemicals and charges in our brain holds our thoughts as real-world objects, just as ink and paper can hold a pi
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Where is the proof based system able to invent every possible thought paradigm of humans a priori? Beyond the realm of feasibility, I'd imagine. The gulf between what is theoretically possible and what is realistically doable is g
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by bccdee 1y ago
There's flippancy that crosses social lines, and there's flippancy that blurs technical distinctions. The difference between someone whose mental disorders are under control vs someone experiencing psychosis is like an oncologist
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by bccdee 1y ago
Since "I think therefore I am" is meant to be a foundation for reasoning, it precedes any real definitions of "I," "thinking" and "being." So I think it's really more of a set of definitions than
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Yes, but we are nowhere near this limits yet. Says who? > Given enough resources, we can have enough particle generators as there are particles in a car. Given by whom? I said in practice —you can't just assume limitless resou
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Imagine someone does a quick survey to estimate that tasers aren't killing people we don't expect Given that the quote you cited was, "Are the chatbots really driving people crazy, or just catching the attention of peopl
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by bccdee 1y ago
Why? I haven't heard any credible accounts of "pornography psychosis." Moral panic narratives about pornography have become popular in recent years, but though many critiques of mainstream pornography are valid (that it'
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by bccdee 1y ago
You've struck at the essential problem of dualism. If thoughts are nonphysical, how can thoughts influence our physical bodies? If consciousness does not interact with the physical world, but merely arises from it, then how can we
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by bccdee 1y ago
> They wanted to report specifically his birth/legal name, with no plausible public interest reason. Siskind is a public figure and his name was already publicly known. He wanted a special exception to NYT's normal reporting pr
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by bccdee 1y ago
Well yeah, that's a false dichotomy. If you're vulnerable and a chatbot sends you into a spiral of psychosis, your pre-existing vulnerability doesn't negate the fact that a harm has been done to you. If you have a heart condi
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by bccdee 1y ago
> I meant applying two instances to different problems. That very much scales. You can't double the speed at which you solve a problem by splitting it in two and assigning one person to each half. Fred Brooks wrote a whole book abou
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by bccdee 1y ago
> scalable by increasing the frequency, power or duplicating it Well there's your problem. Very few things scale like that. Two people are not twice as smart as one person, nor are two instances of ChatGPT are twice as smart as one.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah I suspect Factorio's "complex game logic + simple(ish) 2d engine + minimal team structure" situation meant that the usual tradeoffs didn't apply. It's really cool that they pulled it off, though—I can't im
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by bccdee 1y ago
FYI, newer versions of Go do support the following type HorsePlay interface { Neigh() } type SomeClass[T HorsePlay] struct { players []T } func (sc SomeClass[T]) NeighAll() { for _, p := range sc.players { p.N
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by bccdee 1y ago
Empirically, I think you'll find that Go code generators are bad compilers. Go codegen isn't written with AST transformations and quasi-quote libraries. A macro system would be an opportunity for the Go compiler to take responsi
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by bccdee 1y ago
Seems like you could just put your test files in a tmpfs, if leaving files laying around is an issue.
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Sounds very much like the description of a big ball of mud. I mean, yeah, kinda. For any given object in the game world, it's funnest for that object to be able to interact with as many other objects as possible in as many ways as
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by bccdee 1y ago
I would say more or less equivalent to textual macros. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the idiomatic way to write Go codegen (having skimmed some codegen repos and written some codegen tooling myself) is with the text/template pac
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by bccdee 1y ago
Pointers are pretty common in Go though. Not as common as Java, granted—you're not NPEing on an integer—but they still get passed around a decent amount.
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by bccdee 1y ago
No, I'm saying the language should never permit uninitialized or undefined values in any context. Make `int i;` a compile error and force the user to write `int i = 0;`. Rust does this.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah the big problem is that most languages have their fair share of rough edges. Go is performant and portable* with a good runtime and a good ecosystem. But it also has nil pointers, zero values, no destructors, and no macros. (And before
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah default values are one of Go's original sins, and it's far too late to roll those back. I don't think there are even many benefits—`int i;` is not meaningfully better than `int i = 0;`. If it's struct initialization
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by bccdee 1y ago
You can write `Optional`, sure, but you can't un-write `nil`, which is what I really want. I use `Optional<T>` in Java as much as I can, and it hasn't saved me from NullPointerException.
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Wait, what? Who said otherwise? > What a horrible metaphor for a tool that can translate pdfs to text. lol. You didn't say otherwise explicitly, but you're definitely downplaying the issues discussed in the blog post. >
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by bccdee 1y ago
If, four years on, the primary thing a tool has done for me is waste my time, I think it's time to start looking at it through the lens of a scam. Even if it does have good use cases, that is not the main thing it does, at least not in
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by bccdee 1y ago
Per the original post, it's a tool that will waste massive amounts of your time on slop. Don't pretend that there are no negative consequences to the proliferation of AI tools.
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by bccdee 1y ago
The author is giving an account of his experience with LLMs. If those experiences were enough to thoroughly bias him against them, then that's hardly his fault. "Sensible middle ground" is what people appeal to when they are
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah I especially would not expect a lost college student to be able to plan what a solid footing in the industry looks like. If you don't know what a "product manager" is, you're not going to have any idea what a reason

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