coldtea

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by coldtea 3mo ago
> AI competes with us for attention. And it changes the reader too. I wrote a whole piece on how AI isn’t replacing writers, it’s replacing readers. And yet this is itself AI text.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> feels flimsy and has some slop/play in a way that lightning did not No end to the official Apple lighting cables that died on me over the years, and across iphones and ipads.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
In what ways regarding the processing involved. How much can it be reduced and simulated and be essentially the same principle?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Well, processing a weighted model to respond is reasoning too.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
You keep repeating this throughout the thread, one could even say just like a certain class of exotic birds :) Why couldn't parroting, after a certain level and complexity of the parroting infrastructure, be reasoning? What a priori re
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Ultimately, with data that already contains interpretation, no matter how much you repeat the learning, it just becomes an encyclopedia that only explores within human knowledge, repeating predictions within human interpretation. So I
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by coldtea 3mo ago
In what ways are you different?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
what does that have to do with anything?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> And my point is that it's a label on a cyclical trend Not so sure about that. Romanticism isn't related to Millinarianism conceptually or otherwise. The former was a re-adoption of a hollistic medieval stance on life and nat
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Because the analogy he makes is with Romanticism, a specific trend/movement, for which 1800 is roughly a good reference point, whereas 1600 is not.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> that's true only if one believe what they are putting out blindly That's true also if we see the impact their (and other frontier AI) tools have on employment and development practices.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
I think that's absolute wrong. The situation with Java is absolutely clear.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> The result, up front It's very welcome, to start with this. However, just from this heading, I knew with 90% certainty that the post was AI generated.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Verbosity compared to C? Only in extra syntax constructs. But Rust can absolutely do the same thing as C in fewer lines, especially when comparing each's standard features like string support.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Doesn't matter. Big tech is not changing anytime soon. So if we see AI, we shouldn't see as some random tool, but as something in their hands.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Wat? Anthropic leadership, including CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Boris Cherny, has declared that software engineering is dead or will become obsolete within 6 to 12 months due to AI automation. Cherny states that at Anthropic, no code
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Keeping it to the most mainstream, Java is a mighty fine choice as well, with even better options for third-party packages, tooling, integrations, and telemetry than most of the above.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> but do people blindly trust them Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Meant to imply he's not a Claude fanboi.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
How is that ironic or necessary? Why should they hand out citizenships, when work or resident permits will do? And that's somehow fascist, as if the problem with fascist Italy or nazi Germany was that they didn't hand out citizens
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by coldtea 3mo ago
No. So much less so, that, when they describe common life lessons, few ever even believe what they read apply also to them (until the exact same thing happens to them).
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by coldtea 3mo ago
The scientific community has burned a lot of credibility itself to make any kind of statement to that effect.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Accurate is what reflects reality. Reality isn't neutral. Some things are bad, and worsen society, and others are good. "Neutral reporting" presents a false equivalence between different options that seldom are equal. And of
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Doesn't have to be "every person and company, in unison, in a grand conspiracy" and other such strawmen. We could try steelmaning this argument instead: it's enough that most big companies who would otherwise have incent
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by coldtea 3mo ago
I find that the word guzzle is dead accurate. They consume a huge amount of the country's electricity not only for no clear benefit to society, but mostly for making it worse, with more social media posts, stupid videos, surveillance,
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> What's the word for this type of propaganda, where they add in some sort of adjective that wasn't needed, in order to prime the reader on how to think/feel, rather than just objectively reporting the facts? It's ca
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Too many people missing the point entirely and wanting to make SQLite Postgres or Oracle.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
They also want this type of joke and misunderstanding SQLite purpose to get "macho programmer" points back.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
For the same reason some Nazi officials looked into the occult (yeah, real world "Riders of the Lost Ark" style). Hubris and desire for ultimate control.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> The subtle art of deception was historically considered a feminine trait, as opposed to the brute nature of masculinity. Was it? Aside from Odysseus, there's Loki, Dolos, and all mythologies have similar figures of the (male) tri

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