intrinsicallee

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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Thank you. 100% of the cases where some headline makes big claims about "AI" based on some study, you take a good hard look at the study and none of the big claims stand on their own. It's all heavily spinned, taken out of co
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
I'm truly amazed by what is happening right now. Software is a knowledge business. Teams and orgs compete on their capacity to learn, express and operationalize knowledge. Yet everyone is buying into the discourse of a handful of vendo
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Bingo. All the clamor for more speed is driving erosion in the biggest asset class for most of the companies adopting these "accelerant tools": knowledge. Everybody cargo culting winner takes all VC plays is gonna deprive everyone
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
If the new way and speed of working makes you deploy things that you then become the bottleneck on the organizational knowledge of, and now the organization is running things in production that you have to go chase down details about and bl
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Hey man we all have our own skill levels and challenges and do all sorts of different work. I don't want to shit on what you've done but you're coming in WAY too hot for how trivial your work is and how inflated your descript
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
There is a lot of space between broken and high quality that won't necessitate any business letting people "learn" on the job.
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Everybody? Need? Obvious answer is no. Some people, teams and orgs can benefit from it. "I don't need it" is missing the point. "Not everybody needs it" is missing the same point from a different direction.
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
You demonstrate well the problem: yes anything that is computable can be than in any computation system. That's not what discussions about tooling are about. If a tool can help enforce some ways of doing things, or if it doesn't c
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Good point, developing oneself and acquiring skills is often at odds with maximizing one's income. So much of what is debated on HN is people talking past each other from these opposing perspectives.
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Yet precisely that is happening with LLMs generating code for a lot of people who don't really understand what they are submitting chasing clout for competing in the labor market.
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
A life in tech filled with gratitude and fearlessness seems like a huge achievement in my eyes.
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
We've had paper and pencil permitting unfettered symbolic representations for centuries. The reason we settled on text is not some accidental bottleneck caused by typewriters. We settled on dense and terse modes of symbolic reasoning a
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Excel, visual "programming" lo/no code environments, and Factorio itself are all examples of this fallacy: making it easier to build complex symbolic systems doesn't help people learn how to manage that complexity; it in
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Thank you for this treatment. I agree 100% with you, people for opinions about the name Dijkstra based on silly echoes of polemics that lost much of the irony in their origination. The replies here I think support that. Dijkstra had a lot o
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Wrong author. Darwin wrote about physiological changes in animal populations over generations. What you're describing is the alienation that the worker is subject to under a legal and political system built by capital owners. You want
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
It comes from Pythagoras, not Gnosticism
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-woman-charged-murder-ab... https://www.newsweek.com/texas-gop-meeting-death-penalty-wom... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep&#x
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
Build more broken stuff seems to be the endgame of "move fast and break things". Like PCC building empty cities, numbers go up I guess. What a world. I want something else entirely but lots of people seem to be fine with this mode
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
I said introspect, not talk about introspection.
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by intrinsicallee 5mo ago
I'm still not sure what people declaring that they equate human cognition with large language models think they are contributing to the conversation when they do so. Nevermind the fact that they are literally able to introspect human c