lensecat

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by lensecat 2mo ago
"We know that’s how the human brain works, at least directionally." That's an extreme misrepresentation. What happens inside a human neuron is still not properly understood, it's not as simple as a probability function.
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by lensecat 2mo ago
I'm doing a PhD in sociology of work (I have a background in software development) and want to do such a study on software development with AI, but as you say it's quite hard to find a good setting, because it's hard to opera
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by lensecat 2mo ago
In western thought, this is mostly related to the concept of involution. The most famous study is on Javanese farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Involution In terms of software development, here's
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by lensecat 2mo ago
I also think we underestimate the adverse side of changes we already live with. Would it really have been possible with a president (crypto)-scamming his voters in the 1950s or -60s US, or is that a result of televised media? Read "Amu
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by lensecat 2mo ago
Sorry but this just isn't true. Of course you need more energy to produce a cow and then eat it than you need to sustain yourself by just eating the cows food.
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by lensecat 2mo ago
It's still probabilistic from a huge dataset while the human mind is not.
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by lensecat 2mo ago
I read your comment and came to think of this lecture, I think you'll appreciate it: https://youtu.be/nIq4w9brxTk?si=RJ-0tSKGFhsHN_Xx
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by lensecat 2mo ago
One way of thinking about software freedom is that FOSS is artesanial and closed software isn't. Partly because it's artesanial for the creators (no need to constantly push poorly thought-through features), but primarily because i
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by lensecat 2mo ago
Really interesting talk, especially his points in the end on the inherent relationship between craftsmanship and open source software, and the antithetical relationship between craftsmanship and closed source. I have to say these points fee
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Sennett (2016) Programming as Craftsmanship or Why Win10 was so bad(youtube.com)
2 points by lensecat 2mo ago|1 comments
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by lensecat 2mo ago
The teenagey reference to Atlas Shrugged, a book that hails selfishness as the highest human virtue, coupled with the sloppy writing makes me highly suspicious of the competence of the author. Good riddance for Norway I guess.
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by lensecat 3mo ago
If you're gonna slop-write your blog post at least put in the same effort you urge people to make when writing code...
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by lensecat 3mo ago
In my view there are three takeaways from this, all of which are correct: 1. Already strained government services need to bear increasing input, affecting waiting times and employee workloads, which is bad. 2. LLMs are empowering citizens t
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Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services(arxiv.org)
82 points by lensecat 3mo ago|87 comments