mikemarsh

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by mikemarsh 8d ago
Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!
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by mikemarsh 8d ago
Thus far I still am, but I'm in a very weird and atypical work situation at the moment. Weirdness aside, I'm continuing to write code as I used to, despite the overall company _cultural_ push towards AI, given the lack of direct o
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by mikemarsh 14d ago
I remember seeing some JS cryptography library a long time (maybe 10 years?) ago that provided an async hashing function for exactly this reason: to split up what would normally be a simple synchronous computation and yield more often to th
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by mikemarsh 14d ago
A key point that's always missed in this kind of discussion is that people in the past didn't worship comfort quite to the extent people do now (although of course they'd often prefer it). Sure, a materialist could go back an
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by mikemarsh 14d ago
There's no reducing reliance on "other people", especially when embracing digital technology; in every realistic scenario you become tethered to the people in charge of Big Tech and all that entails, in Stallman-esque fantasy
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by mikemarsh 14d ago
This is great; I'm a big fan of Crawford (mainly The World Beyond Your Head) and you've re-piqued my interest in these slightly earlier authors. It's also worth noting that all of this musing on art isn't surprising in a
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by mikemarsh 29d ago
Any kind of accomplishment outside of having kids could also be boiled down to an "evolutionary" drive for status, power, belonging, etc. Why is this nihilist lens applied selectively to one pursuit and not others?
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by mikemarsh 4mo ago
An interesting "conundrum" (at least from my outsider perspective): how many of those bot requests are from agents that utilize Turso on their backends?
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by mikemarsh 5mo ago
I would guess a real human, one with a good sense of humor at that.
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by mikemarsh 6mo ago
Interesting symbolic angle: as LLMs plateau and are more and more ineffectual at replicating real intelligence, perhaps this is an attempt to keep the sci-fi mythos alive from the other direction: "Computers can't seem to create a
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
Always interesting how this kind of snark never seems to go to bat for modern man's average patience and self-control, thus actually proving the naysayers wrong, but always just assumes that "everyone knows" modern times are
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
> what are those agents actually doing? Providing material for attention-grabbing headlines and blog posts, primarily. Can't (in good conscience, at least) claim you had an agent running all night if you didn't actually run an
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
> I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding > Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write? Interesting mix of sentiments. Is this c
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
That's a great idea; a good chunk of interesting software design discussion has been crowded out by "here's how to better beg the machine to do the right thing", rather than discussing amongst ourselves what the "ri
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
> A sanctuary from AI and vibe coding, focused on human engineering Big fan of this project for this reason alone. I hope over the next few years we'll see this more and more not just as an implementation detail, but a public brandi
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
Maybe, just maybe, there's some inkling of truth behind what your political enemies are saying, and you can carefully acknowledge said inklings and even gasp integrate them into your own worldview, if relevant? Nah, they're prob
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
Beautiful, living in Southern Michigan and dealing with slightly more snow than usual this year, I feel like a wimp compared to some of my snowy-weather compatriots here from Norway, Canada, etc.
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
It's a kind of gaslighting, probably first and foremost for themselves before others.
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
Some people really do think of soft power, propaganda, shady covert operations, etc. as something "the other guys" do (China! KGB-Putin!), but assume the US is somehow above all that. Basically a neoconservative-esque sentimental
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by mikemarsh 7mo ago
Surely there's a lot of CIA involvement there too ;-)
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Is it even worth mentioning that the whole "AI is the reason for layoffs" line is a charade, or does everyone here know that already? For anyone who doesn't: the economy is bad in general, but saying citing "AI" a
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Truly the next uncharted, civilization-upending frontier in computing, definitely worth the unlimited consumption of any and all natural resources and investment money.
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Presenting this quote without additional commentary is an interesting Rorschach test. Thankfully more and more people are seriously considering the effects of technology on true wisdom and getting of the "all technological progress cle
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Late to the party, but speaking of "challenge your own biases", have you considered that "Christianity" as a blanket term equally covering * historical American Puritanism (of the kind you rightly opposed) * modern &quot
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Getting your definitions and worldview from 20th-21st century reactions (many justified) against goofy evangelicalism rather than actual theology and history is likewise frivolous and embarrassing.
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
> The technology has a lot of benefit for the faithful Although written primarily for Orthodox Christians, there are valuable cautions here to consider regardless of your tradition: https://www.jordanville.org/artificiali
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Nice job kicking the hornet's nest with this one lol. Apparently it's an objective truth on HN that "scholars" or "philosophers" are the source of objective truth, and they disagree on things so no one really k
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
It's not about "Pathologising those who disagree", it's about how demonic influence (which anyone can fall victim to) _actually_ works. You've highlighted a very real equivalency in spite of yourself.
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
I wonder if the concern about "civic institutions" as some unique and special thing within society is a generational thing; as a millennial I've almost always viewed "universities, and a free press" ("rule of l
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by mikemarsh 8mo ago
Yeah, it's quite unbelievable people are still repeating the "AI everything -> UBI -> everyone comfortable and well-fed" line. Who's to say the governments won't just let society continue on the exact same tra

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