"We must work. We must make money. But more than that, we must experience everything, not just the good. But degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole. Makes us people of substance, not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours."
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But most smart critics will skip past arguments about human nature and simply point out that socialism relies on Central Planning.
JacobinCritics of socialism frequently charge that it rests on an overly optimistic view of human nature. The truth is that socialists want a system that guards against tendencies to greed and domination.
Are any other software devs feeling more like spellcasters and less like programmers these days?
justin maurer dot devGetting LLMs to do EXACTLY what you want, rather than something in the ballpark, requires you to use words that push the LLM towards the relevant wordspace for the solution. That means you have to speak (and think) like a professional to get professional results. Your job is safe.
I think you gotta stop at paper maps though, cause "ride 3 days north" does not sound fine.
Tim CarmodyPaper maps and handwritten directions were fine. We got where we were going fine. What we’re doing now is fine too. It’ll all be fine, even whatever holodeck bullshit is yet to come will be fine
Repent! Lest ye be marked with the Post-Quantum PIN of the beast.
little lambGuys we have to behave or they’re going to add more numbers to the codes we use to unlock our phones
I don't know how to describe this performance except to say that you need to see it. holy shit youtu.be/b5unUACxHJ8?...
This is perhaps worth celebrating because yay humans, but the engineering VP comes off as an idiot here. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product" www.bbc.com/news/article...
say what you want, this is a jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLDA...
17. Thousand. TIMES reduction in rows PER CALL.
justin maurer dot devWitnessed an AI miracle today, and this line from its response really says it all: "No data or logic change — just a ~17,000x reduction in rows examined per call."