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by walleeee 1y ago
> If we don’t allow it to be studied because it is creepy, then we will never develop any understanding of the very real manipulation that is constantly, quietly happening. What exactly do we gain from a study like this? It is beyond obv
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by walleeee 1y ago
While it is hard to argue with the wisdom of crystallizing intellectual capital into our tools, I do wonder if these models might be as likely to diminish as to develop the person using them, in which case we trade an implement's itera
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by walleeee 1y ago
This is one of the biggest dangers imo. While I agree with the OP about the deflation of joy in experienced programmers, the related but more consequential effect seems to be dissuading people from learning . A generational threat to colle
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by walleeee 1y ago
> So anything that can let you iterate the loop faster is good. I think the major objection is that you only want to automate real tedium, not valuable deliberation. Letting an llm drive too much of your development loop guarantees you d
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by walleeee 1y ago
well, if you trust them and act on bad information they can hurt you. if you use them to cheat yourself out of learning something they can hurt you. these things have sharp edges and need to be approached with some care. agree with your bro
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by walleeee 1y ago
> Almost all new code was written in C++ because it was easier to maintain. What makes you say so? See musicale's comment above. I have a hard time seeing C++ as easier to maintain, if we are just talking about the language. The eco
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by walleeee 2y ago
Research is often (usually?) the property of the host university, though. Yeah labs are independently managed but the university is in at least one sense, and imo many more, still the institution both doing and selling the work
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by walleeee 2y ago
> The author is essentially arguing that fewer people will be able to build software in the future. Setting aside the fact that the author nowhere says this, it may in fact be plausible. > That's the opposite of what's happe
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by walleeee 2y ago
Some bits and pieces from part 2.1 ("Two questions") > [i]n a free society there is room for many strange beliefs, doctrines, institutions. > There is nothing in science or in any other ideology that makes them inherently li
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by walleeee 2y ago
I'm not convinced these glosses pin him down. He's worth reading, even if you only want to test your mastery of your own position on questions like this.
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by walleeee 2y ago
he says something like this in Science in a Free Society, I'll see if I can find it.
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by walleeee 2y ago
> Freedom and personal liberty actually are ideologies. Feyerabend in particular would likely differ, and say instead that freedom and liberty are what emerge when mature adults democratically order their societies, irrespective (or in s
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by walleeee 2y ago
I should say, disable you - the tone did not reflect that it can happen to anyone, and that it can not only be a wedge between people but also (and only by virtue of being) between personal trajectories, conditional on the way one uses it
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by walleeee 2y ago
> Students primarily use AI systems for creating (using information to learn something new) this is a smooth way to not say "cheat" in the first paragraph and to reframe creativity in a way that reflects positively on llm use.
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by walleeee 2y ago
No, it just means you have a stronger prior that a human being is generally intelligent. We don't ask that question of each other because it's obvious. It doesn't make sense to hold you to the same standard I hold a model to.
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by walleeee 2y ago
Engineering a direct/deterministic map from genotype to phenotype may not be possible. Networks of gene regulation are often complex and interwoven, there are translational steps acting upon the genetic code, and development is driven
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by walleeee 2y ago
> lobbying itself (specifically, informing lawmakers about your specific perspective and desires) is a valid and desirable function. If it were a truly demotic activity you would have a point. But as it is, lobbying (in the US at least)
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by walleeee 2y ago
We have practiced the art of liability displacement from living, breathing human beings to artificial constructions for a lot longer than we've had a digital substrate for such
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by walleeee 2y ago
Some MSRs can consume spent nuclear fuel, that's a 7th grade solution at least
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by walleeee 2y ago
Yes. Use an LLM with any regularity to write code or anything else and the effect becomes perceptible. It discourages effortful thought. Sometimes the means are just as important as the ends, if not more
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by walleeee 2y ago
which is why those of us who aren't idiots and hucksters need to think critically about computers, ourselves, and the roles of both in the world. unexamined optimism is no virtue
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by walleeee 2y ago
It might also be nice to know where (and when ) groundwater is safe to drink our descendents will perhaps not be thrilled to learn about the "time bombs" we have left them, steadily inching into aquifers or up into surface water.
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by walleeee 2y ago
The trick, of course, is in distinguishing > THIS MANAGEMENT TEAM DOESN"T KNOW HOW TO MAKE MONEY AT THE MOMENT from > THIS WHOLE INDUSTRY IS FAKE or, worse, > YOUR SOCIETY HAS REACHED THE INFLECTION POINT OF A YEARS-, DECADES-
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by walleeee 2y ago
> still a few elements that still need to be worked on. Capacity and size of machine Rather an understatement. These are absolutely foundational engineering problems which nobody yet knows how to properly solve.
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by walleeee 2y ago
No, I don't think I am. > > Big food corporations profit from ultra-processed foods that manipulate our natural systems. > I've just never bought this Yours is a rather strange reading if you truly mean to absolve the foo
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by walleeee 2y ago
Well-respected American leaders thought it wise and worthwhile to maintain backchannels with the USSR throughout the cold war. Presumably, then, the Soviets were a lesser threat, materially and ideologically, to the American project than Ru
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by walleeee 2y ago
The language (f90+) is a pleasure more often than a pain IMO. That it evolves, but quite slowly, feels appropriate and reassuring.
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by walleeee 2y ago
Does grandma have a profit motive? Does grandma care about your wellbeing? Is grandma a vast conglomerate of strangers who couldn't give two flying fucks about you on a good day? Is plain old sugar, animal fat, and salt unhealthy in la
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by walleeee 2y ago
Indeed, it's not fair to lay all the blame at the feet of the middling adtech worker. Plus a good fraction of the fibers are certified non-human.
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by walleeee 2y ago
> It is very clear that the current administration is backed into a corner and trying to make the best of the situation. This does not seem clear at all. What has led you to think so?

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