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Rust devs are so obsessed with writing things in Rust that Rust was re-written in Rust.

"Drop the tle, it's cleaner."

It's amazing what reading a word in that book like sousveillance can do.

I looked it up.

surveillance, sousveillance - sure, why not? Seems harmless.

But it's as if the more people know the word sousveillance, the word and even the act of surveillance actually loses a little bit of power (its embedding changes, if you will!)

All our fears about the end state of surveillance can now be countered by an end state of sousveillance.

Before I had sousveillance to think of, I could only think of surveillance (when thinking of veillances) - and it was more of a threat then than it is now.

The world is made of language, or as Terence McKenna said made out of words which sounds obviously false at first. But go looking for the inside of an atom and tell me what you find, and think about where the medium of reality actually implements itself.

This is potentially very bad.

Like, Library of Alexandria or Council of Nicaea bad.

We may never be able to recover the information if, say, one of these AI companies copied or translated it wrong then destroyed the source material.

Maybe it's from bad OCR, or maybe from a bad actor - but there are a lot of ways history and information could change in this game-of-telephone like transfer of knowledge.

What is the point of destroying the source material? I don't buy the copyright thing.

As crazy as it sounds, code quality != software quality.

It turns out that the lower the barrier to creating "high quality" code is, the worse the software is on average.

Who remembers the Photoshop lens flare?

It's not that the effect sucked - it did lens flare perfectly. But who used it sucked.

Instagram and the Nashville filter - "we're all photographers now"

Code quality not equaling software quality gets at the fun part of the modern AI-labor debate. Where does talent and efficacy really reside in terms of software? Surely not in the (apparently unworthy?) mind of a human? Surely it can be extracted, distilled, automated – liberated! - unto a reactive web interface for some middle manager to invoke (at some expense to some account this folk loses zero sleep over), because it is after all this flimsy, transferrable - not worthless! Not worthless! I have a stock portfolio to maintain for God's sake. But mine. Nonetheless.

Code quality doesn't equal software quality.

> $200 billion $100 billion

That's a fun way to say is not profitable and loses billions a year

"Our model has TRILLIONS of parameters!"

"But it's worse than Mistral 7b"

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