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by leshow 7mo ago
They sound exactly like George Bush and every other American leader who's claimed high minded ideals while they engage in interventions in direct contradiction to those ideals around the world
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by leshow 9mo ago
I am agreeing with you, LLMs can be useful for simple code generation where you're primarily plugging existing components together.
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by leshow 9mo ago
I don't think you understood my comment, I didn't say anything about how to use the tool. The parent comment was making the case that humans are as non-deterministic as the LLM is, and I was explaining why that is not true.
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by leshow 9mo ago
If you want my opinion, I think LLMs can be pretty good at generating simple code for things you can find on stackoverflow and require minor adjustments. Even then, if you don't really understand the code you can have major issues. You
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by leshow 9mo ago
It's not the same, LLM's are qualitatively different due to the stochastic and non-reproducible nature of their output. From the LLM's point of view, non-functional or incorrect code is exactly the same as correct code becaus
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by leshow 9mo ago
Oh, well if it can generate some simple code for your personal website, surely it can also be the "next level of abstraction" for the entirety of software engineering.
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by leshow 9mo ago
I use hickory a lot and have contributed to it. It does have a pretty robust async DNS implementation, and its helpfully split into multiple different crates so you can pick your entry point into the stack. For instance, it offers a recursi
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by leshow 10mo ago
I love Rust and async Rust, but it's not true that there aren't annoying things to deal with. Anyone who's written async Rust enough has run into cancel-safety issues, the lack of async Drop and the interaction of async and t
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by leshow 10mo ago
Have you read about the process of "enshittification"?
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by leshow 10mo ago
modern american history shows how wrong this is. US has been at war almost every year since the end of WW2.
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by leshow 11mo ago
That would be the case under market conditions where buyers are making rational decisions with perfect knowledge based on all available choices. Does that sound like the system we have? To me, reality seems more like a small set of oligopol
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by leshow 1y ago
I think you're confusing publicly available shares with actual ownership by the public in a way that's no consistent with the way any socialist would think about ownership. Stock may be available to anyone in the sense that anyone
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by leshow 1y ago
It's the same here. Calling what the west has a "free-market capitalist" system is also a lie. At every level there is massive state intervention. Most discoveries come from publicly funded work going on at research universit
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by leshow 1y ago
In your world where jobs become "optional" because a private company has decided to fire half their workforce, and the state also does not provide some kind of support, what do all the "optional" people do?
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by leshow 1y ago
UBI is not a good solution because you still have to provision everything on the market, so it's a subsidy to private companies that sell the necessities of life on the market. If we're dreaming up solutions to problems, much bett
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by leshow 1y ago
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/08/what-do-we-owe-a...
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by leshow 1y ago
The objectives changed all the time for domestic political reasons. If you want a great podcast series on this checkout Blowback. Season 1 does Iraq and they go back to Afghanistan in season 4. https://open.spotify.com/show&
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by leshow 1y ago
I kinda feel this way too. Reading some of the blog posts by AI "luminaries" I'm struck by how Stalinist they sound. They hold out some utopia that exists in their minds, and they are ready to feed people into the meat grinde
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by leshow 1y ago
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Type systems don't produce probabilistic output. Their entire purpose is to reduce the scope of possible errors you can write. They kind of did change the world, didn't they? I mea
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by leshow 1y ago
I don't find that a compelling argument, lots of people get taken in by hype cycles even when they don't profit directly from it.
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by leshow 1y ago
I think you're missing the broader context. There is a lot of people very invested in the maximalist outcome which does create pressure for people to be boosters. You don't need a digital token for that to happen. There's a s
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by leshow 1y ago
Ideology is at its most powerful when people think it doesn't exist.
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by leshow 1y ago
something being a skill does not mean it is an engineering discipline. engineering is the application of science or math to solve problems. writing prompts doesn't fit that definition.
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by leshow 1y ago
I have a degree in software engineering and I'm still critical if its inclusion as an engineering discipline, just given the level of rigour that's applied to typical software development. When it comes to "prompt engineering
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by leshow 1y ago
using the term "engineering" for writing a prompt feels very unserious
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by leshow 1y ago
I agree, it's a silly list. Improvements in consumer technology, no recognition of the larger changes in concentrations of power that have happened concurrently.
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by leshow 2y ago
The state keeps the billionaires afloat though. Tesla, SpaceX, all of Musk's companies wouldn't exist without government welfare. Other big monopolies benefit from government protection and subsidy. Billionaires are not a fact of
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by leshow 2y ago
I agree that people are taught we have meritocracy that is not real, but the problem is that the billions are able to buy power, not what people think of his intelligence, to be clear.
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by leshow 2y ago
As long as they remain "public-private partnerships" the goal for the private part of that relationship will be to extract as much money as possible out of the public for as long as possible.
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by leshow 2y ago
I would love for Canada to build more HSR, but these public-private partnerships are killing the projects. They turn into feasting opportunities for private companies to extract public funds. 4 Billion over 5 years without a shovel even goi

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