namaria

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by namaria 1y ago
I did not say it was unfit and I don't see how discussing writing styles and the influence of LLMs on it is off topic on a thread about the effects of LLMs on cognition. I don't believe I was impolite or making a personal attack.
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by namaria 1y ago
Wow.
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by namaria 1y ago
The 3500 BCE date for horse ridding is speculative and poorly supported by evidence. I thought the language in the bit I pasted made that clear. "Horse being driven" means attached to chariots, not ridden. Unless you want to date
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by namaria 1y ago
I claim specifically that "I love this analogy" and "I love your analogy" have become noticeably more common in HN since 2022.
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by namaria 1y ago
From the article [0] you linked: "However, the most unequivocal early archaeological evidence of equines put to working use was of horses being driven. Chariot burials about 2500 BC present the most direct hard evidence of horses used
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by namaria 1y ago
> Reminds me of Plato's concern about reading and writing dulling your mind. (I think he had his sock puppet Socrates express the concern. But I could be wrong.) Nope. Read the dialogue (Phaedrus). It's about rhetoric and writi
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by namaria 1y ago
Horse riding was invented much later than carriages, and it revolutionized warfare.
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by namaria 1y ago
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by namaria 1y ago
Maybe, much like we invented gyms to exercise after civilization made most physical labor redundant (at least in developed countries), we will see a rise of 'creative writing gyms' of some sort in the future.
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by namaria 1y ago
Same story for me. What has really helped is trying to make initiating useful and desirable tasks easier and seeking distractions harder. Bit by bit, cultivating that mindset changes things for the better over time. The trap is usually &quo
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by namaria 1y ago
If the solution to all problems with attaching gpu farms to our workflows is to attach more gpu farms to our workflows, I can't see how this isn't just an elaborate scam.
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by namaria 1y ago
Increasing energy input to a closed system increases entropy. Why on earth people expect to attach gpu farms to render characters into their codebase to not only not increase its entropy but to lower it?
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by namaria 1y ago
Most coders prefer to throw code at the wall and see what sticks. These tools are a gas-powered catapult. I don't think anyone is wrong, I am not here to detract from this. I just think most people want things that are very different t
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by namaria 1y ago
This is an attempt to change software development from a put out system to a factory system. It seems to be working sadly. If people hated agile, just wait for the prompt/code review sweatshops.
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by namaria 1y ago
So much of what people hyping AI write in this forums boils down to "this vendor will keep making this tool better forever and management will let me keep the productivity gains". Experience shows otherwise. Urging me to embrace a
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by namaria 1y ago
I really don't get it. I've tested some agents and they can generate boilerplate. It looks quite impressive if you look at the logs, actually seems like an autonomous intelligent agent. But I can run commands on my local linux box
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by namaria 1y ago
> "Today is the worst day you will have with this technology for the rest of your life." Why do we trust corporations to keep making things better all of a sudden? The most jarring effect of this hype cycle is that all appear t
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by namaria 1y ago
Storytelling is the skill you're looking for. Visual aids and recording/editing are incidental. What makes presentations, video essays, etc, great is having a great story to tell. It's all about the archetype of the hero, and
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by namaria 1y ago
Physics: if you increase energy flow into a closed system its entropy will rise Tech company: we made you a tool that allows you to increase energy flows into your closed systems AND decrease their entropy! Software engineers: thank you for
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by namaria 1y ago
> Socrates had a skeptical view of written language, preferring oral communication and philosophical inquiry. This perspective is primarily presented through the writings of his student, Plato, particularly in the dialogue Phaedrus. He d
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by namaria 1y ago
I disagree with siblings that it's fear or greed. I think it's way more basic. Much like recruiters calling me up and asking about 'kubernetes' they are just trying to get a handle on something they don't really und
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by namaria 1y ago
You should read the original paper. Turing argued that discussing the abilities of machines to "think" is meaningless and proposes instead to conjecture about whether a digital computer would eventually be able to imitate conversa
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by namaria 1y ago
I'm not sure what point you're making. I never claimed any set of tooling is necessary of sufficient to produce good music. I merely pointed out that, as it became more accessible to produce music, the overall quality of the outpu
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by namaria 1y ago
Pretty much the reason I think electronic music was fantastic right up to the point DAWs became a thing. When everyone with a laptop and some software licenses can just put out slop that sounds like the originators, quality fell off the cli
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by namaria 1y ago
I was mostly confused by the wording. I didn't know 'modulo' could be used like that, but apparently it has a colloquial meaning of "except for the variation accounted for by" and now the phrase makes sense to me.
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by namaria 1y ago
I just did. Found a copy of Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), read ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1". Not a single mention of "thinking machine" and overall just a guy describing the ideation of a mechanical
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by namaria 1y ago
> effect navigation at sea in overcast daylight, modulo some basic idea of the time What do you mean with "modulo some basic idea of the time"?
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by namaria 1y ago
When I think about taking the random numbers, mapping them to characters and parsing that into commands that you then run... I feel like I am loosing my mind when people say that is a good idea and 'the way of the future'.
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by namaria 1y ago
I have. I was criticized for pointing out spurious nonsense in LLM slop by someone who claimed people wouldn't have to resort to it if other people made an effort to explain things better. But I don't believe anyone is entitled to
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by namaria 1y ago
"How committees invent" https://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf

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