marliechiller

Whats made it not good nowadays in your opinion? Im a 10 year+ subscriber but always open to better alternatives where possible

I guess I shouldnt commit my git changes either then

I'm pretty sure Julian Jaynes' work is entirely hypothetical and is thought if as just an interesting idea rather than actually having any semblance of truth to it... unless you actually believe the Greeks were amongst the first humans to truly emerge with consciousness which seems farfetched to me

Do you have examples of what weird stuff they would say? Im having a hard time imagining what you mean exactly.

What is your understanding of a Pre-Release then?

– and it'd be load bearing

Do you have children? If no, then how can you make this assertion? If yes, what or who is filling the gap that children fill for you?

Lice have no choice in their lot in the universe. Do you think if they had intelligence the ability to choose their lot that they would choose their current one again? I doubt it personally. You can detest their mode of existence whilst still having empathy for them I think

1. Artificial insemination without consent 2. Birth and all of its pain and potential complications 3. Removal of offspring as early as possible to repeat steps 1 and 2 and so prolong lactation 4. Mastitis

All of these result in suffering much worse than egg harvesting imo. Reluctant dairy eater btw

Shame you cant remember the source. Ive long since wondered if its actually more deleterious for my health to cycle to work in London due to air quality. I came to the conclusion that youre damned if you do and damned if you dont in the end, as in London at least, many of the tube lines have particulates higher than is considered safe

For me, I thought this until I tried spinning up my nix setup on a new machine and realised that a lot of my work patterns were being stored subconciously in my shell history. After using atuin with nix, each new machine became a carbon copy and I could spin up and instance and continue working seemlessly. There are also sometimes examples of things I do in work that I then want to repeat at home or vice versa which atuin makes easier

These sorts of things are sold all over France as well so you can remove the Chauvinism

That seems like an extreme interpretation if I'm honest. As ever, its more likely somewhere in between your hammer analogy and the handyman. In any case, there is almost zero downside to listing your sources when answering a question as it provides the person asking the question with more context as to the origin of the answer

Is it not more akin to asking a handyman to go and do the work for you? They are the ones wielding the hammer, youve just sent them off to go and do it on your behalf without getting your hands dirty. If you then claim to take credit for it, I can see how that might be misinterpreted.

As I see said quite often, an LLM is deemed of a similar ability to a junior software engineer. If I were that junior and my work was repeatedly ripped off by my senior colleague, I would be pissed. Not that an LLM cares in this instance, but the original requester might want to know

I dont understand the point your comment is making. Are you being facetious or genuine?

What I've observed both in the comments here, and in my professional network is that people tend to fall into two distinct camps:

1) Those that use git like a crude autosave who then squash on merge

2) Those that prefer neatly wrapped, fully functional atomic commits

It seems those ideas are in direct opposition to one another with 1) being more common in my experience, perhaps as github naturally supports it better plus the fact that stacked commits can solve some of the problems 2) accounts for... but if I had a choice, 1) definitely makes more sense to me.

Just to call out - halal and kosher are _less_ humane than simply killing an animal in the usual industrial way

I dont know if the reasoning for a rewrite is purely for maintainability though. Ive used python at scale and its fine if you have reasonably good code hygiene. The reason I'd want to rewrite in any of those languages is they're significantly faster _and_ are maintainable at scale.

What do you suggest as alternatives? Currently I'm using firefox which seems ok but I know they are propped up by google somewhat

I think these ideas are orthogonal. I do not think that conciousness is defined by human experience at all - in fact, I think humans do a profound disservice to animals in our current lack of appreciation for their clear displays of conciousness.

That said, if a chimpanzee bares its teeth to me, I could interpret that to be a smile when in fact its a threatening gesture. Its this misinterpretation that I am trying to get at. The overlaying of my human experiences onto something which is not human. We fall for this over and over again, likely as we are hard wired to - akin to mistakenly seeing eyes when observing random patterns in nature.

In the case of LLMs though, why does using a mathmatical formula for predicting the next word give any more credence to conciousness than an algorithm which finds a nearest neighbour? To me, its humans falling foul of false pattern matching in the pursuit of understanding

Why do you think stringing words together is any more a sign of consciousness than google maps is when it tries to find the best route available to your destination? It seems to me that humans often fall into the trap of anthropomorphism. This is a theme thats touched upon in the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. Just because something can communicate in a way that you can interpret, doesnt mean something is conscious

hah - 50 year olds have been amongst the worst offenders from what I've experienced. The only generation that I can see that hasnt completely fallen is the generation that were young adults just around the time facebook first released, i.e Millenials. They grew up with the internet but werent enslaved to it like the generation after (Gen Z). Meanwhile the generation above (Gen X) didnt have the survival instincts fostered whilst growing up with the internet so fall foul of all sorts of fake news pieces etc

Somewhat. I think we are still quite a long way from ethical practices even in the "good" cases.

I eat meat, but try to limit it to once a week and have replaced milk with oat and soy in a lot of places. I still love cheese but it does give me conflict when I spend even a second thinking about what it takes to actually get cheese. (Cows dont lactate without pregnancy). That said, my own personal philosophy is that we have likely evolved to consume animal products so I cant dismiss it fully, just reduce my own consumption. ~75% of all agricultural land is used to feed livestock, yet livestock produces only 18% of the world's calories and 37% of its protein, which just seems insanity to me.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Billions of pigs cows and chickens will stop being massacred in grizzly ways? Yours is an extremely common and unfortunately ill-informed argument that I see a lot. If I was given the choice between end all suffering by killing all factory farmed animals right now vs perpetuate it, im choosing kill all animals right now

Talk about confidently incorrect. Gatwick and Heathrow have water stations all over the place and I recently saw similar in Geneva

Why? Is this is because of shame or fear of losing your job?

Thats a term thats used a lot in the British isles too, I doubt its an Australasian thing

It does, but the L-Theanine has an almost neutralising effect on the more jittery and frenetic aspects that caffeine can bring. It leaves you feeling what I would describe as more focused and calm, rather than alert and anxious

Can you offer some rebuttal to give some credence to your point?

I have never vibed with macOS's seemingly default mode of floating windows layered over one another like scattered paper on a desk (mimicking a desktop I suppose). Instead ive been using https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace for the past couple of years and just flicking around via hotkeys. Not perfect but much less friction for my use cases