I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! I dislike slop in all forms, including slop thinking. Views are my own, but are obviously right.
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These people (the ones pushing the anti-learning narrative), should be disempowered, derided, ignored, and driven out of all of the important places where decisions are made. They are a threat, and need to be treated as such.
"I even think that it’s really wrong for parents to ever try to push reading before 5," says Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA.
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How can one possibly be so ignorant about the thing they post about all day long? Athiesm isn't a value system. This is like saying "lying isn't wrong in blue."
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This Muskian idea of having agents write machine code directly, even though it will of course be eventually possible, is just a horribly bad and stupid idea. The same reason that Jensen's suggestion that it's ok to let our critical skills lapse. Just poor judgement.
Rust is a good prompt compilation target for the moment, but so is C++. And soon assembler. Then microcode. Myopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
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It's unclear in what sense it is "anthropomorphizing" to say that systems that convey all outward manifestations of thinking are "thinking." We don't observe their internal state & can't easily discern it. AP suggests the same of animals, which, I believe, unequivocally "think".
No, "anthropomorphizing" is a technical problem, about how AI works, not something like woke language policing. We say it's wrong because it's "technically" wrong not "morally" wrong.
If you fail to set the brakes when parking on a hill, and your car then rolls down the hill, you don't claim that the car "decided to drive away on its own". Such anthropomorphizing distorts what really happened -- that you failed to set the brakes.
The same applies to AI. When you "anthropomorphize" the AI you fail at understanding what actually happened.
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Physical evil, pal. The problem is *physical* evil. Earthquakes, tsunamis, childhood cancer, and all other kinds of nonsense that a benevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent deity would elide if creating a universe.
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Ken Paxton believes in 0 constitutions and 1 king so ... seems like James is an infinitely better choice.
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btw Claude's banked reset retains your original reset date, so you get an additional 7 days in free usage within the same week.
Codex pushes back the release date, making the expected value less than 7 days.
Big W for Claude here.
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One clear pattern that seems to be emerging from reactions to this, on both sides of the question, seems to be that humans don't really think either, at least not in a way that anyone seems to be able to articulate clearly.
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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It's absolutely textbook enshittification:
Stage 1: Good to consumers
Stage 2: Good to business partners
Stage 3: heaping pile of shit
If they do this @OpenAI will be clearly moving out of stage 1.
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If you vote for his candidates in the midterms, then the only explanation is that you hate America and want to see its imminent downfall. That's it; that is the only logical reason to vote that way.
If you voted for Trump in 2024 expecting him to fix everything in two years then you’re an idiot.
If you voted for Trump in 2024 expecting him to fight like hell for four years then you owe him your vote again.
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So, AP style guide. You're telling me that it's not advisable to say that AI "thinks", but it's OK to say that buffoons like this loser "think"? 🤡🤡🤡
They stole the 2020 election and when people protested, they raided their houses with guns drawn and threw thousands of Americans in prison for exercising their peaceful right to protest.
Remember who the Democrats truly are when voting this November.
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