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That sounds pretty juicy, but “implementing a C++ compiler in Lisp” is a pretty big squeeze.

Yeah I alluded to this in my comment, but I think the dict literals just make for a much easier on ramp for someone familiar with Python or JS (or JSON, which is increasingly unavoidable for even C++ devs like me).

Yeah, I mean this is somewhat compelling, although the old arguments people brought out (macros are obfuscatory) seem to grow more teeth if agents are writing the macros.

So I guess the idea is tastemaker humans spend all their time coming up with sweet macros and telling agents to refactor the ever shrinking code base.

But even still I think the main argument for S-Expressions (it’s easiest for humans to create DSLs by working on serialized AST) has become weaker. If DSLs are the best way to make a code base readable, you can now have your agent create one with whatever syntax you like!

That’s a plausible story, but doesn’t seem to bear out in terms of models being amazing at Lisp. Like, Sonnet 4.5 was writing me emacs Lisp with unbalanced parentheses.

I don’t really have faith that I could write macros of such incredible brilliance that it would outweigh the models’ facility with Python.

Hash table literals.

Also, living on a host language has always been part of its ethos. So if you want to be Lisp on C++ or Lisp on Rust, you’re going to be more ideologically aligned with the Clojure crowd than the Common Lisp crowd who pinch their nose and say ALGOL when you mention either.

Curious why you’re so bullish on S-Expressions now of all times.

It seems like the idea of the macro, and more generally of expressing code succinctly, is the closest to obsolete in my memory?

The other half of the Lisp sales pitch (image based development, constantly inspect state, hot swap code, REPL, etc) seems like what has retained currency in the LLM age.

I primarily type on mobile via Swype, which may account for varying mileage.

For the record, “primarily” took 4 tries, “varying” 2, and “took” 3.

I type this way because I tried it out on Android a decade and a half ago and it was fucking great!

Autocorrect has had the opposite effect IMO, there’s an expectation that like 1 in 8 words from an iPhone user are not what the sender intended.

Typos have just graduated from misspellings to sentences randomly being nonsensical.

Isn't "hackable electric work truck" a bit of an oxymoron?

Just because the big batteries are so dangerous?

Roll them up, you might say.

That's the plot of Office Space!

They’re designing custom silicon and solving millennium problems, maybe some of this code is in support of that.

Can’t roll out fusion powered data centers in 2030 without a simulation engine.

On Linux I have to kill and restart the app after my laptop goes to sleep because the text box disappears and I can’t continue the conversation.

Racial bias

Definitely not if you live or work in the area and will leave your car there for 8+ hours.

Maybe not if you have an appointment and will be there for an hour.

If you’re there for 15 minutes, open season.

How else would you Uber Eats your picnic?

For intelligentsia, such as they are, not to foment panic that might escalate to civil unrest.

I'm gonna credit George RR Martin with flipping Arya in the mid '90s

It’s basically Windows at that point!

Well, I think the argument is that the average person gets safer and happier when you stop letting dorks scam their way out of 12 hour shifts the hospital / factory

It’s also presumably where some of the memory is going

Thankfully GPT-Sol is pretty cavalier with academic paper IP.

Sci-hub doesn't work anymore but I can at least ask GPT what a paper says

> Anthropic won't let people make video games.

Wait, what?

> Wall Street banks earlier this week closed the North Star deal, which provides the financing for Anthropic to lease 1.5 gigawatts of Google’s semiconductors.

This line is certainly eyebrow-raising to the educated layman.

Apparently it means that anthropic is leasing a Google data center whose constituent servers draw 1.5 GW of power running representative workloads.

Maybe just do something bloodthirsty and populist like bail out the company and execute the leadership.

Because a bunch of people become homeless, commit suicide, and otherwise suffer.

Feel free to run for office on a "periodic culling" platform, though

Gig worker goes to Point A, receives a package, and brings it to Point B?

They seem like near-identical businesses to me.

An actual generation scheme would probably do something with the potential difference prior to dielectric breakdown actually occurring, at any rate.

Yeah, I mean it's sort of galling.

However, if they're at parity then the incentive is to just squeeze your assets for as much income as possible until you run their value into the ground. Which seems like a pressure for business owners / shareholders to be even more short-sighted than they already are.

Which is also my objection to a wealth tax actually (incentive to tank paper value of all holdings).

IDK. Taxation is sort of a blunt instrument and seems woefully inefficient compared to nationalizing assets on a case-by-case basis.

I would, uh, not describe modern emacs as "parsimonious"