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Which is extremely logical and obvious, if one can quickly lift one's head up above the "anti-piracy" propaganda of the major copyright-wielding creativity-killing companies spewing out the same drivel year after year.

Conversely, I have found that the same people who will happily equate "having a spotify subscription" to "supporting artists", who do things like attack people who jailbreak their kindle or whatever, these people are often the greatest thoughtless vibers when it comes to media. Try asking someone like that to name a piano player, or a bassist, or a drummer. Ask them to name three directors.

They'll know celebrities, not musicians or actors. They'll know to attack "pirates" on cue, but have no conception where their money goes every month when their subscriptions are billed.

I'm caricaturing, but these are my experiences.

Ok ok, you got me! Delightful!

The only people that often value quality are engineers.

I might even add that the overwhelming majority of engineers are happy to sacrifice quality - and ethics generally - when the price is right. Not all, maybe.

It's a strange culture we have, one which readily produces engineer types capable of complex logic in their work, and at the same time, "the overarching concern of business is always profit" seems to sometimes cause difficulty.

Wikileaks' Julian Assange is perhaps the archetypal recent example, but there are others.

Westminster has undergone a violent authoritarian shift in recent decades. Stating that clearly is a prerequisite to beginning a fight for "democracy", as you put it.

Would love to hear from someone who has used both though.

I've never seen an excellent, detailed comparison actually, as conversation on the subject tends to devolve into a "discussion" on ethics. Meaning, people who dislike GNU or GPL or Lisps or something get testy and argue uncharitably (imho, please prove me wrong, not flaming here, etc).

This is ironic, to say the least, as one of the main points of the proponents of the "anti-GNU" side tends to be how Guix is too opinionated and pushy and hard-line etc. So we've a classic upside-down situation, which is a real shame, as Guix seems to be in reality a practical project with lovely people involved that's doing very interesting work.

Here, if you say your Tesla drives you to work hands-free, I've no problem accepting that as a part of the world.

It's an engineer-heavy company, and he's a marketing guy. He was brought in to give them some sales direction, some strategy. He comes up with some standard strategy, presents it. No, reasons. Meetings and presentations and essentially repeated NOs later, months and months of this, he eventually says to himself:

This is industry standard stuff. They're rejecting it because they don't understand. I'll do a big presentation, come up with loads of metaphors and catchy phrases and graphs, and present it.

He does this, result: oh, brilliant stuff, let's get this all implemented! Wonderful. It's the exact same stuff as before.

The story was told to me in terms of - "ah, isn't it great that everyone finally understood!", and my response was based on exactly your observation. They understood roughly as much as before, but if you don't get the metaphors, you look silly!

Not because the LLM "deserves credit" (a disgusting trend, I find) but because:

A. The millions of humans who got ripped off in the process of their knowledge and time being hoovered up, digitised and productised deserve credit

B. Your artistic, aesthetic and ethical choices need to be assumed fully.

I can't see law working here, so I think it'll have to be cultural. Cultural means these discussions on here, for one. I implore every LLM user reading this to consider full honesty when using these tools.

I can picture the smart replies now so allow me to cut off one obvious one - no, business emails don't count, all business comms were already sloppified years ago. I mean anything that could reasonably be construed as creative, anything purporting to be sincere personal writing.

I'd guess the answer is yes. If someone (somehow) gets into a junior dev role, has no to little experience, and hunts and pecks 20 words a minute, they'll have to get that up to 50/60 surely before they can be a more normally functioning member of a team, right? I think in some bad cases it could be priority number one.

If your job is producing text in files, you tend to need basic proficiency in typing.

I guess you're rather imagining a really solid developer, types 70/80 wpm but never put any effort in to typing per se, uses whatever system or IDE is the norm and isn't bothered. Learns a few keyboard shortcuts here and there maybe, but again, who cares.

Imagine a counter to your question - if that last developer could click their fingers and get to an effortless, consistent 100 wpm, would they? Should they? I think the answer is yes, and yes. They can still spend as much time as they want staring at the ceiling thinking, with the notepad out sketching, etc.

Now, not everyone wants to think about it, and that's fine, other things matter more in the end. How pleasant of a colleague you are matters more in many cases. But surely the notion itself of typing faster being preferable is easily understandable - programmers are text file producers.

Unrelatedly, what's the law on texting, answering a call, and just quickly checking a message while driving? All crimes, I guess?

Lisp was the de facto language of artificial intelligence in the U.S. for many years. Apparently Prolog was popular in Europe (according to Norvig's PAIP)

This is glistening with religious fervour. Sure, they could be that powerful. Just like God/Allah/Thor/Superman could, too.

I've no doubt that many rationalist types sincerely care about these issues, and are sincerely worried. At the same time, I think it very likely that some significant number of them are majorly titillated by the biblical pleasure of playing messiah/prophet.

This blog is where I saw the same idea recently, which also links to that post you link.

Is this group not very seriously discredited, with ties to FBI, convicted child porn criminals, etc? Or am I getting something mixed up?

This could still be a legitimate leak, of course. I'm just wondering if this info is publically known, or if I'm conflating things

We absolutely have not reached anything resembling anyone's definition of a singularity, so you are very much still not proven correct in this. Unless there are weaker definitions of that than I realised?

I think you'll be proven wrong about the economy too, but only time will tell there.

Actually if you want well-written prose you'll read AI slop there too. I saw people comparing their "vibe writing" workflows for their "books" on here the other day. Nothing is to be spared, apparently

I agree with your general point too. People are correct to say SRS only helps with memorising and not with learning, but this is only a problem if you haven't developed functional learning techniques or you have to learn something you don't enjoy. Good learning essentially hinges on interest and excitement, and making the thing you're learning relatable or catchy.

If you have exams and deadlines, this can be hard. If you've no exams and no deadlines, just flashcard anything interesting that comes your way, include context and jokes, and focus on enjoying yourself. Delete flashcards with a smile if they annoy you a few repetitions down the line. Make all your own cards. Invent funny stuff, find quirky facts that stand out.

E.g., the area of Ireland is 84,421km^2 - all powers of 2. I never had a "yardstick" for big areas, now I do. Borneo is nearly nine Irelands in size.

Or another example, French Polynesia has 121 islands, 75 of which are inhabited. I found this fact shocking, so I thought I'd put it in to a flashcard. After some quick reflection, I'm sure you too could come up with ways to make those numbers stand out.

Another - the title of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus" - where truth tables were popularised - ends in SOS. No more forgetting the title, or where truth tables are from!

In summary - learn things you like, and make it spicy for you.

> FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) is a modern spaced repetition algorithm that was developed by Jarrett Ye.

If I do a search of "flexible spaced repetition software" I get no results, which strongly suggests the dumb guesser you're using guessed something plausible to placate its user. This is common behaviour for this type of software.

In summary, I politely suggest you critically review how you interact with knowledge on the internet.

I got particularly burned by that press release a little before Christmas, where it was claimed that 4o was doing difficult maths and programming stuff. A friend told me about it very excitedly, I imagined they were talking about something that had really happened.

A few days later when I'd time to look into it, it turned out that essentially we'd internal testing and press releases to go off, I couldn't believe it. I said - so, marketing. A few months later it was revealed that a lot of the claimed results in those world-changing benchmarks were due to answers that had been leaked, etc etc. The usual hype theatre, in the end

You wrote a comment implying what's wrong with Nix is the language, and stating that there's unfortunately "nothing better" out there.

It is true in this universe that there is a software project called GNU Guix, which is 13 years old, whose literal origin idea is - what if we take the general idea behind Nix, but write it all afresh in a fully featured programming language, and make it extensible and configurable with that language.

There are a host of reasons you might not want to get into that personally, as I stated - but it really does exist, regardless of your personal feelings?

> Nix is bad because the language is very limited and extremely hard to debug and the module system is fragile and obscure

-- Limited :: here's a collection of Guile software https://sph.mn/foreign/guile-software.html. It's not Python, but it is a general purpose language used by lots of people for serious software work, with a nice library of lovely Scheme books for learning, too

-- Hard to debug :: Guile has built-in debugging support, and there are interfaces like Geiser in Emacs with extra tools, and also support for interacting with GDB

-- Module system :: Guile's module system was first implemented in 1996, I learned from browsing there. Anyway https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Modules....

So yes, if you don't like Lisps, or don't have time to learn new things, or don't like something else about Guix, by all means, steer clear. But the statement: "there's no Nix but with a general purpose, powerful programming language" is, I think, demonstrably false.