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@darius @jalefkowit so I think that as we try to find ways out of this, it’s important to remember that this is not a natural march towards technological progress, but a thing being done *to* us all by specific people who can be called to account for a lot of it

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@darius @jalefkowit I disagree with that part because I think there are much more pedestrian causes for this malaise. Increased economic precarity from the raiding of the commons via destruction of research funding, manic executives churning through waves of layoffs (which have repeatedly been […]

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@darius @jalefkowit On the one hand, yes, there are some keen and resonant observations here that both describe something that is happening to creative community and intellectual practice right now.

on the other hand, there’s a strong implication that this is necessarily how it *has* to be […]

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@darius @jalefkowit I do think it’s relevant that the author is factually incorrect about AI “solving” software engineering. there is at best some conflicting information that it introduces marginal single-digit productivity gains.

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if you are trying to evaluate the efficacy of LLMs and you are reading the personal story of someone building an impressive demo, do not read the post looking for technical details. instead, see if you can spot: - sleep disruptions - grandiose generalized language about upcoming social and […]

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we can talk about it in 3 months after all the lawsuits are filed and it turns out that it's just a concatenation of blender, gimp, & inkscape with the licenses & attribution filed off and it cost a hundred million dollars in tokens or whatever. I'm really tired of needing to react to each of […]

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artcraft looks really impressive, like the math stuff looked really impressive before it turned out that openai stole results from a mathematician or the vulndev stuff sounded really impressive before it turned out that mythos was 95% false positives or the coding efficiency gains looked really […]

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holy shit I got a free NordVPN subscription and their macOS client installs an endpoint kernel extension that just hangs around after an uninstall. There was a constant com.nordvpn.macos.Shield process. I had to boot into recovery and disable SIP to get rid of it. Part of that is on macOS that […]

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I kid, I kid. But if you ever see me posting a 50-page essay debunking LessWrong's ridiculous catalogue of "decision theory", you will know that my executive function has _completely_ collapsed or we are truly living through the End Times (probably both)

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Are there fewer wasp nests around that guy, eventually? Sure. Is he meaningfully accomplishing his goals? This is somewhat less clear.

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People keep saying I'm a smart guy because I keep writing about AI (and, if you do this, I really appreciate your kind feedback) but I sometimes feel that these compliments are like complimenting a guy who keeps compulsively punching wasp nests because he hates getting stung by wasps as being […]

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@RonJeffries this whole situation continues to be baffling to me in part because for the individual programmer, it's _backwards_. a bit more self-esteem on the part of our profession and respect for the craft would result in an *increase* in our collective value, not a decrease. but we all act […]

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