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This trend predates LLMs though.

That's a great point which never occurred to me about Dijkstra, even though I knew where he came from. My father in law used to like this joke: "He was Dutch and behaved as such."

When did Woz post here? I'd love to see that.

This doggerel is every bit as propagandistic as what it opposes, and has nothing in common with Owen's poem of unbearably real experience.

The gas victim scene is harrowing. But what haunts me even more is the men without boots, marching with bloody feet.

Sorry for replying so late, I only just checked the thread.

"I was mislabeled but not locked up" is misleading because hospitalization was phased out decades ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation). The reason she didn't get "locked up" is because treatments changed, not because she was assessed correctly (she was not). Psychotic patients don't get "locked up" by default anymore—they get medicated, which is what happened in her case as well.

It's a red herring to emphasize an obsolete practice that was phased out long ago. "I was mislabeled but not locked up" says no more than "I was mislabeled but not put in an insulin coma". A more accurate statement would be "I was misdiagnosed and treated for mental illness". Written that way, it's clearer that this is not a refutation of Rosenhan at all, and looks more like a replication.

I don't know if the book is actually this misleading because I haven't read it. I'm just making an out-of-context response to the out-of-context bits of information I've gleaned here.

I feel like we might have more to learn from you than the other way round. Where by "we" I mean the traditional programmers who frequent this place.

All three of these (birth, live music, and cooking) involve the body in ways that can't be virtualized.

One long-term effect of AI adoption might be to cheapen and commodify the virtual, and reorient us to embodied experience. I hope so.

> She was given some anti-psychotics and sent away

But that confirms the main point of the experiment, which was that people who didn't need psychiatric treatment were given it anyway.

It's only of secondary importance that the prescribed treatment changed from hospitalization in 1973 to drugs by 2004. The primary point is that there was no objective way to determine who genuinely needed treatment. She didn't, but was diagnosed anyway.

This objection is so obvious that she must have addressed it in the book. Do you remember if she did?

Publications could use watermarking to encode the name of the account an article is being served to, but they don't seem to. I wonder why.

It helps to have a statistician and a geostatistician as your clients!

I haven't noticed it being awful again. Can you give examples?

That's basically what I was thinking too: installation is a constrained domain with tons of previous examples to train on, so current agents should be pretty good at it.

Why the specific application to install scripts? Doesn't your argument apply to software in general?

(I have my own answer to this but I'd like to hear yours first!)

What are those techniques? I'd like to learn more.

That's a bittersweet mix of troubles and sweetness. I hope the troubles sort out without too much heartache, and that 2026 brings many good things.

It will be a second dose of Streisand if they do.

> some random homeless guy

Was he homeless? I haven't seen that mentioned in the articles.

> John posted about the encounter on Reddit after the shooting

Anyone have the Reddit link? (I wonder why the article doesn't include it)

To me the more obvious option is additional features that people pay for, i.e. freemium. But what do I know.

I doubt that they know. It's too early to figure something like that out.

> If you’ve used Violentmonkey/Tampermonkey, Tweeks is like a next‑generation userscript manager

I think it's idempotent

I saw a link to https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1obtbmg/aws_site_re... at one point but then it was deleted

The problem is that you can't combat pretentiousness by declaring others pretentious, because that is even more pretentious.

I found the delay puzzling too. But the NYT obit does link to https://www.colinmcginn.net/john-searle/ near the end.

It's a different event: more recent, more lectures, more antichrist. Oh, and more secret.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectur...

you should probably mention that it was your post though