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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Excuse me for veering off topic but I saw this, was intrigued (I used to live in Lyon), browsed some of your previous comments here, saw the book Carmilla, which I'd never heard of, and am very happy. I will be reading J. S. Le Fanu, a
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Maybe this was tongue-in-cheek in a way that eludes me, but in case any innocent and curious bystanders are as confused as me by your comment, I'm not sure "Worse Is Better" refers to what you think it does. It isn't abo
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Va... -- section 9.3 of the Guix Reference Manual at least answers problem 1 for you, I believe. I think 2 is possible, and not sure about 3. I was mo
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Lisp supremacy approaches! I'm reminded of definitively the most extreme writing on programming I've ever read, here https://llthw.common-lisp.dev/introduction.html , including but in no way limited to claims such
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   Ah, ok, you must be using agency in some new way I'm not aware of. Can you clarify what exactly you mean then when you say that "AI" (presumably you mean LLMs) has agency, and that this sets it apart from all other technologi
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   It is not "an agent" in the sense you are implying here, it does not will, want, plan, none of those words apply meaningfully. It doesn't reason, or think, either. I'll be excited if that changes, but there is absolutely
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   That's the thing, you don't have to say it, sort of by definition. It's always implied, as is its opposite. Imagine a video or article or whatever, titled: "How to get a Mediocre Job and live an Unremarkable Life" W
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   HN in the Common Era 2025: "If you don't have rich parents, an alternative is to get a high-paying job".
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   by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

   > He spends months chiseling each essay I like Graham's writing, and defend it elsewhere in this thread, but that has such an obsequious and somehow macho smack to it, wow. One imagines Hercules chiseling his abs. If that's wha
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Successful people outgrowing their jodhpurs and losing their reason is a thing, sure, but that does not apply in this specific case. Tech writing is still writing, my friend. Have you read ANSI Common Lisp? Or even the introduction to it? I
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    You mean, the CEO is only pretending to make the decisions, while secretly passing every decision through their LLM? If so, the danger there would be... Companies plodding along similarly? Everyone knows CEOs are the least capable people in
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I have never seen anything resembling emergent behaviour, as you call it, in my own or anyone else's use. It occasionally appears emergent to people with a poor conception of how intelligence, or computers, or creativity, or a particul
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    It might be the ultimate irony if we were training them. But we aren't, at least not in the sense that we train dogs. Dogs learn, and exhibit some form of intelligence. LLMs do not. It's one of many unfortunate anthropomorphic buz
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Have you considered throwing your thoughts down in longer form essays on the subject somewhere? With all the slop and hype, we need all the eloquence we can get. You had me at "probablistic regurgitation of tropes", and then you w
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I wonder if we'll look back on this period in a couple of years and feel a nostalgic fondness as we think of the fateful moment when people working in software were forced to pull the wool from their eyes and look at the fact that busi
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Well ok then, agreed. Most people want what the advertisers tell them they want, absolutely.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Oh thank you, I'd never heard of Rick Roderick, he looks brilliant. Always thrilled to hear different accents in and around academia, too!
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Funny, I said something similar at that parenthetical remark. I thought to myself - oh, it was only a little remark, no-one will catch it! So I'm a bit thrilled, the careful readers are still out there. Absolutely, to what you're
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Hmm, but who is the "him" you're referring to? Still none the wiser as to what gave you the idea. I'm missing something here, perhaps some jargon eludes me...
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Ah ok, I had misunderstood then, excuse me. That is not unreasonable at all as a metric of success. When you say professional, you mean philosophical journals, or what? My first thought would be the language - people aren't writing muc
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Oh, I suppose it makes sense that we'd need a word like that. Thanks!
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Have people seen this? https://noazureforapartheid.com/
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    No, I've no idea what that is. What's this now? Should I become The Fire Rises player?
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I ordered The Burnout Society after seeing his name on here maybe a month or so ago and thinking it looked interesting. It only arrived recently, and it's very interesting so far. Then when subsequently browsing a few essays about his
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Title is "i have tinnitus. i don't recommend it." Does it get automatically uppercased, I wonder?
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    a. Why not get piano lessons? If you are more interested in the technical fun of messing with software, this approach makes sense, sure. But if you're interested in sight-reading, it seems a bit wild. Sight-reading involves ear trainin
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    I was going to leave it there, as you suggested earlier, as I felt you were unable or unwilling to engage with my points, instead focusing on trivialities, tone policing, etc. The futility is already apparent, but I'll make the same po
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    What do you love about emacs, if I may ask? Bit hard to guess what you could mean, given your subsequent claims there.
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    by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago

    Surely the people who speak of "linux on the desktop" (not me, for the record) are at least in some small sense alluding to being able to have some of the freedoms historically associated with Linux, originating in the GNU movemen
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    Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence [pdf](kpmg.com)

    1 points by -__---____-ZXyw 1y ago|1 comments