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by epgui 6mo ago
This article seems to be using the word “expert” quite imprecisely.
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by epgui 6mo ago
Don’t most OO languages have similar differences? My understanding is that even Java is quite different from, say, Smalltalk (which arguably is “more OG”).
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by epgui 6mo ago
For clarity, what do you call "classical OOP"? (disclaimer: FP all the way, regardless)
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by epgui 6mo ago
But S-Plus/R is not homoiconic in any way.
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by epgui 6mo ago
> minimal and simple is not the same thing as easy to use and natural/obvious You are right about that. I value "minimal and simple" more than "familiar" because it makes my growth trajectory less arbitrary and m
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by epgui 6mo ago
Remembering macros is much more like remembering functions than syntax.
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by epgui 6mo ago
It’s not true, unless you have an unusual definition of “syntax”. Lisp basically has the most minimal syntax possible, by design. To use the right words: it’s not a syntax issue, it just looks unfamiliar to you.
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by epgui 6mo ago
This comment is like saying you can appreciate wine, but you think it should have less grapes.
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by epgui 7mo ago
Good python code can exist, but python makes it so easy to write bad code that good python rarely exists.
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by epgui 7mo ago
Weird, in Canada (at least some provinces) I think that's a pretty standard part of both high school and undergraduate maths.
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by epgui 7mo ago
That’s like arguing that “forming a queue at the store” is not an official policy. The document outlines normative / prescriptive approaches that are followed in practice.
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by epgui 7mo ago
Wrong in two different ways: - this tends to approximate consensus. - Wikipedia does care, and has a policy on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scientific_consensus
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by epgui 7mo ago
Have you considered the possibility that your opinion is just not representative of the scientific consensus?
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by epgui 7mo ago
I’ll admit to having expressed myself wrong. I think we agree on the substance.
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by epgui 7mo ago
The point is that people equate AI with general intelligence, and the shortcut between LLMs and general intelligence is a bad one. Yes LLMs can do surprisingly well at a bunch of tasks, but broca’s area will never replace a human. And yet t
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by epgui 7mo ago
My point is that they are a small subset of AI.
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by epgui 7mo ago
I really hate how people think LLMs == AI. An LLM can’t/shouldn’t be doing anything other than generating text.
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by epgui 7mo ago
It’s a meaningless question, there is no “out there”.
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by epgui 7mo ago
It really doesn't sound like you know exactly what it means.
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by epgui 7mo ago
This is abundantly clear in all remotely-scientific discussion of climate change.
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by epgui 7mo ago
The rate of change is the issue sir. You can’t “aside” it.
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by epgui 7mo ago
> With software engineers […] you don’t have legal limitations on who can perform the work While in practice that is true, in theory this is why professional engineering accreditations (I mean like P.Eng., not little certificates) exist.
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by epgui 7mo ago
You literally wrote: "Some anti-intellectualism might be a good thing". It doesn't get any more anti-intellectual than that, you put it down yourself in blackletter.
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by epgui 7mo ago
It sounds like you have your own definition of "intellectuals", which appears to mean pretty much the opposite of what it usually means.
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by epgui 7mo ago
That's a completely non-sensical take.
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by epgui 7mo ago
I’m not claiming an LLM is structurally or functionally equivalent to a human brain. I just said that what we call “creativity” is in fact a very derivative thing.
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by epgui 7mo ago
While that’s kind of true in some sense, I think there’s an argument to be made for the contrary: that the mechanism for generating new ideas in humans is not quite as special as we would like to think. In other words, creativity in humans
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by epgui 7mo ago
Not everyone has English as a first language.
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by epgui 7mo ago
It’s probably a thing, especially with loan-words (eg.: “avant garde”), and there are probably much better examples… But the examples in the article make no sense to me.
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by epgui 7mo ago
I mean it’s interesting that this is generally the case with many (or even most) words across languages… But I’d wager it’s more the norm than the exception, so I don’t know if “boiling water” is that interesting of an example.

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