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After cloning a test suite you're still left with ongoing maintenance and development, maintaining feature parity etc. There's a lot more than passing a test suite. If the rewrite is truly superior it deserves to become the new Ship of Theseus. But e.g. I doubt anyone's AI rewrites of SQLite will ever put a dent in its marketshare.

> I personally think all of this is exciting. I’m a strong supporter of putting things in the open with as little license enforcement as possible. I think society is better off when we share, and I consider the GPL to run against that spirit by restricting what can be done with it.

I like sharing too but could permissive only licenses not backfire? GPL emerged in an era where proprietary software ruled and companies weren't incentivized to open source. GPL helped ensure software stayed open which helped it become competitive against the monopoly proprietary giants resting on their laurels. The restriction helped innovation, not the supposedly free market.

I understand that. What I don’t understand is why that’s relevant here. AI can build whatever tooling it sees fit without needing to care about resources necessarily no? Ofc they’re necessary to run it but I don’t understand the inevitability of a currency

I know you weren’t. I’m saying you’re claiming a currency is inevitable on some level. And I don’t understand why.

I’m not sure you’re disproving my point. Why is a currency needed at all? Why is fungibility necessary

Can anyone define "emergent" without throwing it around emptily? What is emerging here? I'm seeing higher-layer LLM human writing mimicry. Without a specific task or goal, they all collapse into vague discussions of nature of AI without any new insight. It reads like high school sci-fi.

Why does "filling a need" or "building a tool" have to turn into an "economy"? Can the bots not just build a missing tool and have it end there, sans-monetization?

In the 70s, the Polaroid SX-70 camera included a disposable battery in every film pack. After 10 shots, you threw away both it and the plastic film case with its large metal spring mechanism. When the film production stopped in the late 00s, you could use 600 film designed for other polaroid bodies reloaded into a 779 native SX70 cartridge, because the battery would last much longer than the initial 10 shots.

Out of curiosity of someone who missed out on this, what is the site vulnerable to?

Excellent more grounded review. A few questions:

> LLMs are emerging as a new kind of intelligence, simultaneously a lot smarter than I expected and a lot dumber than I expected

Isn't this concerning? How can we know which one we get? In the realm of code it's easier to tell when mistakes are being made.

> regular people benefit a lot more from LLMs compared to professionals, corporations and governments

We thought this would happen with things like AppleScript, VB, visual programming. But instead, AI is currently used as a smarter search engine. The issue is that's also the area where it hallucinates the most. What do you think is the solution?

What is the use case with these? Even larger models skip details. Small models are terrible at summarizing and writing.

Right, it's largely politically and ego driven; a people not a software problem.

You say it like western nations don't operate on double-think, delusions of meritocracy, or power disproportionately concentrating in monopolies.

This would be convenient for post-production and editing of video, e.g. to aid colour grading in Davinci Resolve. Currently a lot of manual labour goes into tracking and hand-masking in grading.

The family is a system, with different roles played by each participant. For instance, in toxic families, there is often one scapegoat, with an anxious attachment style, that affords the avoidant types in the family to participate in delusions.

What are the dynamics like of everyone in your family?

Is it that fuzzy though? If it was would language not adequately grasp and model our realities? And what about the physical world itself: animals are modeling the world adequately enough to navigate it. There's significant gains to make from modeling _enough_ of the world, without falling into hallucinations of purely statistical associations of an LLM.

Why have they flocked to Montana? I had no idea.

Why was this flagged? This is factual reporting by a trusted outlet.

Military company flourishes under a military investing regime. Not the accomplishment they tout it to be. Who needs the market?

> The problem isn't knowledge—it's incentives.

> When you're volunteering out of love in a market society, you're setting yourself up to be exploited.

I sound like a broken record but there's unifying causes to most issues I observe in the world.

None of the proposed solutions address the cause (and they can't of course): public scrutiny doesn't do anything if account creation is zero-effort; monetary penalization will kill the submissions entirely.

In a perfect world OSS maintainers would get paid properly. But, we've been doing this since the 90s, and all that's happened is OSS got deployed by private companies, concentrating the wealth and the economic benefits. When every hour is paid labour, you pick the AWS Kafka over spinning up your own cluster, or you run Linux in the cloud instead of your own metal. This will always keep happening so long as the incentives are what they are and survival hinges on capital. That people still put in their free time speaks to the beautiful nature of humans, but it's in spite of the current systems.

My least favourite part of this timeline: anyone who writes well gets classified as AI. Some of us press Option+- to insert an em dash and have been for years.

Because thinking and reflection makes you realize the degree of power disparity, unfairness and suffering in the world.

wow, you managed to make it more convoluted than the original.

depression, like alcoholism, is a crutch and a symptom of a deeper issue, not an independent behaviour in a vacuum.

The authors take a leap in assuming there's a difficulty with overriding a response. But in my and others' experience from group therapy, I can confidently say it's more like either apathy or being numbed out, to the point of either not noticing or caring that the aversive sound is happening.

This is how SSRI has felt for me also, incidentally: an even deeper apathy, setting in from lack of any emotion at all.

The walls of the Google garden have been slowly going up.

Wow no one at all with a Vision Pro?

In my experience Gemini is consistently more conservative and poor at reasoning/regurgitates, like a local Llama instance.

But this uses the transformers model to justify its own reasoning strength which might be a blindspot, which is my original point. All the above shows is that transformers can simulate solving a certain set of problems. It doesn't show that they are the best tool for the job.

The overarching point still stands: our formal systems are just models built to describe the patterns we observe. In that sense, math “just is.” The fact that some models aren’t compatible with others doesn’t undermine that—it just shows they’re incomplete or context-dependent views into a larger structure.