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by strogonoff 4mo ago
“A memory begins with tiny changes inside the brain” as truth statement is a basic fallacy of naive physicalism. There is no falsifiable way to ascertain in which direction causality points, nor is natural science even intended provide a de
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
I’m not sure it’s possible to truthfully describe what we are missing in reality with a photo. You can publish a photo with default automatic JPEG processing, say by a phone, and it will certainly look flat. You could also present a masterf
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
> How Big AI plans to profit from this intermediation is an open question. One AI company has suggested taking a cut of AI-assisted discoveries. The logistics and legalities would be boggling. Details—whatever. Interesting if t
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
Imagine sudoku with hundreds of subtle, sometimes mutually exclusive rules, and no single valid solution. This is not about LLMs, by the way. It’s about reviewing any code, including by a fellow human. It’s just that many people mistakenly
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
Proper review should take longer than writing it yourself, because you need to know the correct solution, understand the proposed solution, and evaluate the difference between the two. When designing it yourself, you just need to know the c
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
> Is it really JS with type hints? I had thought it was really a different language that compiles to JS, like a less hardcore answer to Purescript. No experience with Purescript, but otherwise yes, a language with a different feel. Beats
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
ML is real. Chatbots are real. “AI” is a marketing term that John McCarthy invented because he wanted more money for a summer study at Dartmouth—direct quote from him.
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
I tend to get triggered when TypeScript is painted as “JS with type hints”. Coming from Python background, TS and Python with type hints are just so different. With Python I can’t see myself type-annotating everything (or bringing in pydant
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
What’s your current process for discovering new music?
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
I quickly got used to mine. It’s not exactly at a 90 degree angle to the desk, the finger pushes about as much down as to the side, and since it’s a natural pinching gesture the thumb on the other side stops any remaining horizontal force.
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
A few months ago I switched to a vertical mouse and can’t recommend it enough.
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
I stopped using VS Code and switched to Neovim some years ago, once I noticed that the former would automatically install random Python packages with typings for libraries without stock typings. The “feature” (part of Microsoft’s official P
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
> In all of your examples, a human author would usually prefix with the word "the". Not really. At least one of my examples is literally based on a real headline from pre-LLM days[0]. If we are talking about a generalised idea
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
If you have only seen it in LLM output, then it is clearly novel to you when it comes to actual writing. “Speech” in “this turn of speech is novel to you” is intended to mean human written speech. I will rephrase: if you see a phrase in hum
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
I recommend to think twice before penalising potential human creativity by saying that a novel to you turn of speech is a sign of LLM use. If you base your judgement on “unusual phrase”, it should be a sign that you are probably unable to
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
Considering that LLMs output continuously becomes more human-sounding (by design), you’d either have to continuously run what you write through various detectors and keep changing it or you must resign to inevitably be called an LLM at some
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
The term “playing field” as far as I am aware usually implies the context of competitive sport, not play in the playful sense.
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
Trying to “level the playing field” is antithetical to what art is. Art is about self-expression and communication. If we viewed art as some sort of competition or race, then someone using neural–network-based generative tools could avoid
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by strogonoff 4mo ago
Humans mirror. We subconsciously use the style of authors we read just like we subconsciously use our parents’ speech patterns. If the majority of text is now created with LLMs, how do we expect humans not to sound like LLMs? Considering th
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
Our joy and suffering depends on our connection with other people, and being useful to other people has since the dawn of humanity been one of the ways we connect. Our joy and suffering depends on our ability to fulfil our basic needs like
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
There’s a world of difference between people simply “copying websites” and providing tools that, along with other kinds of plagiarism[0], do so at scale while benefitting from that commercially. Sure, you can do the same thing with people,
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
If you pee on grass, does that make the dandelion that grows there later artificial? If you plant and grow a potato, is that an artificial potato? The term “natural” is meaningless when used in ways like on “all natural juice” labels, beca
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
Barriers is what makes a community; by definition, if there was truly zero barriers, there would be one ambient global pot. When barriers are eliminated, communities either erect new barriers or die. The barrier of rejecting LLM content is
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
It’s under-appreciated that a proper review takes at least as long as the actual work: it’s all the same time spent understanding the challenge and coming up with the best solution, minus the time spent typing in your solution (almost never
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
Of course, it could be that dark matter does not exist. In a very real way, nothing in physics “exists” because like all natural sciences physics does not make statements of objective truth, it makes testable predictions. Dark matter, strin
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
An argument can be made that in a global trade system everyone is, to a degree, an ally, since we all depend on each other economically. A counter-argument could be that sanctions, when overused[0], weaken that very point by reducing this i
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
If LLMs are just (sometimes) useful statistical generators, there is a problem of them being basically operated tools for creating derivative works commercially at scale. Some tend to paint the above as a non-issue by claiming they are sent
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
> Linux became popular because of the persistent effort of Linus & the Linux community into making the kernel better, not because of copyleft. Not at all. It was born thanks to Linus, but it exploded in popularity and gained its cont
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
First, if we assume Stallman is human, we have to grant he will not be right about everything (impossible on logical grounds and supported by the fact that he publicly changed his views on certain things in the past). Second, when it comes
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by strogonoff 5mo ago
Copyright is what facilitates copyleft. Getting rid of IP protections also rids us of GPL, which gave us a few things including the most popular OS in the world. It’s one thing to reject the specifics of IP laws as currently implementated;

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