smitty1e

> (I actually remember asking the professor why they had a word for "ocean", but he wasn't sure either.)

Most likely a reference to Houses of the Holy.

OK: "How *nix tools functioned together in command-line days".

"Requires"/"needed".

LFS is about the muscle memory; the documentation; the cohesiveness.

I always recommend it to people and consider it foundational to my understanding of How Stuff Works.

Whether that amounts to a hill of beans in the AI world remains to be seen.

They remain interesting principles.

One could find the crickets on this topic a tad bit ominous.

I'm surprised at the lack of reference to Asimov[0] in this context.

It may be the case that he was too idealistic, but those Three Laws seem foundational to discussion of what we do with AI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

"Making it worse? Gemini! Gemini! Gemini!"*

*AI meets Life of Brian

Yeah, but then you can use another round of AI to break these things down to crayon level, no?

Or is it just all PFM? (Pure, Fanciful Magic)

Refereeing who is permitted to say what based upon credentials is a popular sport these days.

So I guess that that's a good thing? What would coasting mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-gear_bicycle

To paraphrase John Calvin, "The mind is a factory for rationalizations."

Once we've set ourselves up as judge; jury; and executioner, the unintended consequences abound.

Pay attention to "might". The difference between health insurance and pharma is academic when hate-mongers are asserting authority.

I know someone in pharma.

They drop insane money up front to do a trial, get approved, and then have low single-digit years to recoup all that investment before the new medication goes off patent a competitor markets a generic that blows up the market and likely isn't as well-tested.

And then, in the extreme case, you might get blown away on the street and have your murderer canonized.

But I guess that AI will fix all these perverse incentives Real Soon Now.

Anything from a funnel to a reduction gear on a ship is an example.

Does low verbalization imply that a concept isn't widely known?

Or is this blog post, itself, an example of impedance matching?

The argument is much cleaner if immutable past actions remain un-weaponized.

If somebody wants to tap me for reparations over chattel slavery in the US, and all I can say is that my in-country ancestors fought for the Union.

Which, along with $5, will get you a cup of coffee down' the beanery.

But truth rarely stands in the way of politics.

> I feel anger about the inability of our political systems to rein in the power of capital. While I can rant about politicians a lot, I still prefer a democratic government to have power instead of billionaires. It essentially just comes down to making some decisions in a coordinated way, but most people are not even aware of the problem.

I don't even know what this passage means, outside of some theoretical Platonic ideal "philosopher-king" figure whose existential half-life would be a week or so in a real political campaign.

I don't disagree. The goal was to temper my own Luddism.

It's all fun and games until Skynet becomes self-aware and junk gets real.

For the more religious, "Skynet"=="The Beast" of Revelation.

The sweet spot is somewhere between Pollyanna and Chicken Little.

You could use AI to come up with a draft, and to critique ahead of posting.

The chief grief appears to be phoning in the whole process.

> The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today

To speculate, they could be targeting a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit

Stipulating that the article is bollocks, you still have no guarantee that a ballot was marked without coercion applied to the voter.

This is why as much voting in person; on election day; at a polling place; behind a privacy screen; as possible is generally recommended.

A wallet emits scant telemetry.

Of possible interest:

Chris Cassone "ART OF THE STOMP BOX: Celebrating The Visual Artistry of Effects Pedals"

https://a.co/d/04CPClC8

So, centuries ahead of social media, Franklin invented the fake account.

TL;DR => Sowell, "Basic Economics".

The political thing to do here is run for office on a "Data Centers are teh Devil" platform; harness the angst; win; and then do the opposite and approve them all.

Teach the peasantry the value of their benighted opinions.

I can support the "End of Programming" thesis from the standpoint that no one is still doing punch cards in binary against the CPU.

Higher level languages are great, but we all owe RSM a debt of gratitude for the FSF and keeping the source code within public view.

These closed AI models are akin to compiler vendors, in my view.

It doesn't take much economic analysis to realize that we disdain living on the vendors' various plantations.

That is, the "AI is just a tool" argument is subordinate to the need to keep freedom free.

End of rant.

Bless your heart.

5. Absolut democracy is available at the liquor store in various flavors, but has negarive long-term health effects.

I'd be happy with a sane system of taxation supporting a coherent budget.

Euclid: "There is no royal road to geometry."

Ptolemy I: "I have this 'Royal Road' AI right here."

E: "Can it tell you the precise product of pi*e?"

P: "Piece of cake."