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Sure, so its a given that they will fall to such tricks? If that's the case, may be don't develop a one person cult of personality and power. They're paid enough to look out for precisely for these things so that they don't make mistakes that'll ruin 100s of people's lives, yet they don't have such concerns when making stupid decisions. He is not designing chips, burning midnight oil on trying to figure out how to dissipate enough heat to get best performance from the chip, the kind of problems that actually are consequential. He is the pizza guy, yet cant do that well.

OK, so instead of having all states (00, 01, 10, 11) available in entangled state they only have 01 and 10 available because they have to be opposite of each other, but even with that these particles individually are able to have both states right? I'm not knowledgeable in this field, I just have interest.

Doesn't entanglement mean that entangled particles just cannot have same state of the entangled quantum property at the same time, but they can still achieve all states, essentially preserving their degrees of freedom

"What alien species you have in mind, that is more capable/consciouss about the universe and how to shape it?"

Claim was that we are special in the "universe", it's not that I'm aware of alien life, it's that poster is pretending to know that we are alone.

"But they did not. We "won" so we are special."

Congratulations, if winning a lottery makes you better, I guess top 1% of 1% are the best we have to offer.

"it gives argument to devalueing human life to artificial life"

We have proven time and time again that we are not better than other animals and statistically, we are very similar to animals if not worse. I wasn't even talking about artificial life, which is sure to be superior as it's being created with accelerated evolution processes, just like bacterial generational evolution, it will learn to do everything it's environment rewards it for.

"Meaning people with feelings and emotions might suffer, in favour of GPU's with electricity"

I agree with you and I am in the camp that wants it to be done better. But alas, recent events have unveiled the ugly truth of the society, societies follow the whims of the ones who won the lottery, and everyone else is just mute observer. We could on any day collectively decide as consumers to not use Amazon, Netflix, ChatGPT to save our collective selves, but we won't because we are not "one for all species".

I don't know what face we have to call ourselves better organism given our history. Sure we can point to few people who are better, but on average we are better?

Its not special even in earth let alone in universe. You are measuring humans by our achievements and not by what we actually are. We are not fittest in our environment, we are not even 10th fastest, we cant fly, we cant breathe underwater, forget about bacteria we don't have protection against even bugs and mosquitoes. We are not the most efficient societies, ants and bees would beat us there. Statistically we we are selfish and will sacrifice all for one which is against the basic tenants of evolution and survival of a species. When given a chance at a prosperous life we choose to become lazy, obese and degrade our most prominent feature, that is our brain and mind. Elephants and chimpanzees have better memory, octopi have 8-9 light cones in eyes. We are not special or superior, we just won a lottery of mutation giving us efficient brain. Any species on Earth can replace us given same lottery.

Check out Matt Pocock's coding workflow. His approach is repeatable, consistent and is backed backed by actual theories in large software development.

/s Oh noooo, it's like they're turning into managers... Now that machine can do their job better than them they've become as unimportant as you always thought they were, always pretending to be banging keyboard where it used less brain cycles than highly important work like posturing in a meeting did. Anyone can bang a keyboard even a machine can do that now, it can surely never replace important work of you having to 10 meetings. Lets replace all of them with machines and us meeting lovers can run the company with the machine produced work that we never have hope of understanding.

I agree with this sentiment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033534

Law doesn't seek to punish but to rehabilitate. Act of taking freedom away from the criminal is violent enough. Treating them badly is just a sign of unfair/poor society that cannot maintain (afford to keep) it's promise to be civil to all citizens.

> but the LLM is not sensing actual photons, nor experiencing actual light cone stimulation

Neither is animal brain. It's processing the signals produced by the sensors. Once the world model is programmed/auto-built in the brain, it doesn't matter if it's sensing real photons, it just has input pins like a transistor or arguments of a function. As long as we provide the arguments, it doesn't matter how those arguments are produced. LLMs are not different in that aspect.

> nor generating thoughts

They do during the chain-of-thought process. Generally there's no incentive to let an LLM keep mulling over a topic as that is not useful to the humans and they make money only when their gears start turning in response to a question sent by a human. But that doesn't mean that LLM doesn't have capability to do that.

> Its "world model" is several degrees removed from the real world.

Just because animal brain has tools called sensors that it can get data from world without external stimuli, it doesn't mean that it's any closer to the world than an LLM. It's still getting ultra processed signals to feed to its own programming. Similarly, LLMs do interact with real world through tools as agent.

> So whatever fragment of a model it gains through learning to compress that causal chain of events does not mean much when it cannot generate the actual causal chain.

Again, a person who has gone blind, still has the world model created by the sight. This person can also no longer generate the chain of events that led to creation of that sight model. It still doesn't mean that this person's world model has become inferior.

I pray for souls who are considered to be management material.

Relevant, dangling cloud resources.

DEF CON 32 - Secrets & Shadows: Leveraging Big Data for Vulnerability Discovery - Bill Demirkapi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXgcWuv-Ug&t=288s

Other than agreeing with "spacemadness", I wanted to point out a small correction. Original argument was about 5% of total employees, not only new hires.

I don't even know what to say to this other than that you are right that it does sound stupid and it is stupid. A software developer should not be afraid of learning software, learning new things is fundamental in our work. Comparing an IDE with basic editor like vi, really, that may have worked out for you since you started 20 years ago when that worked, but it should not be the advice today.

I'm not sure I'm familiar with that one.

There are some questionable parts of this anime as it's old and a lot of anime from that time is like that, however, it's one of those anime that got what being a hero is about. Only one that I can think of in recent times is My Hero Academia. If that doesn't sway you to watch it, I think Gigguk included Onizuka as one of the top 20 most badass characters in anime a few years ago.

Here's a list of some old and new ones, that an old fart might enjoy

Monster (Chasing a serial killer)

Ergo Proxy (Can't describe it)

Samurai 7 (Sci-fi variant off 7 samurai)

Last Exile (Post appocapltic world with lots of flying machines)

Kino's Journey

Mushishi

Time of Eve

Gargantia

Baccano

Durarara

Psycho Pass

Arslan Senki

Sunaboju (Desert Punk)

Witch Hunter Robin

Hunter x Hunter (old not new)

Texnolyze

Darker than Black

Black Lagoon

Great Teach Onizuka (One of the old and best)

Gintama (Comedy, It's at the level One Piece and Naruto disgusing as Comedy, you have to get past 30 episodes)

Kabaneri of Iron Fortress (Just for animation quality)

Beck (Music career)

Golden Kamui

Terror in Resonance

Ping Pong Animation (Don't let the animation fool you, it's one of the best stories)

Area 88 (Story ends abruptly, watch at your own risk)

Ashita no Joe (Old anime, boxing genre)

Valkyria Chronicles (War story)

Scissor Seven (Comedy, Chinese, assassin, in a strange world)

Shura no Toki (Martial arts, 3 generations)

A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality (Chinese cultivation genre, 3D good animation, faithful adaptation of one of the good novels in this genre)

Swallowed Star (Chinese cultivation genre Sci-fi variant, great 3D animation)

Whatsapp shows a search box now at the top of the app. Placeholder text in it says "Ask MetaAI or search". Previously search meant search in Whatsapp contacts or chat history, however now since the MetaAI is also taking input from same text box, we are sending our search strings to MetaAI, even though they might be for local search.

I had to do it in one project. It's not trivial, but also not too difficult. Getters were easy, setters required different types of values. After handling various date type values for setters it worked fine. Occasionally I would see an exception for fields generated by APIs like Lombok, which needed to be excluded from my setter list.

I didn't like that I had tobdo it, but it was easier than getting several approvals to get Sonar rules changed.

Its discussed in a recent Planet Money podcast

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho...

I have no dog in the game, I love plain Javascript as my second programming language and have limited knowledge of TypeScript. That said, please look at the large set of CLI tools that have already been created in Javascript. It's not inappropriate language for the job by any means. Even portions of NPM and Node are written in Javascript. Grunt, Bower, Angular CLI etc. are just a few examples of CLI tools in Javascript.

I watched it a long time ago. I just put it here because it presents the idea visually, not because I support or even understand it :)

Putting it here, as it seems relevant.

Veritasium: Parallel World Probably Exist: Here's Why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXTPe3wahc

Seems relevant,

Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics (6 Episodes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd39/episodes/player

Episode 1: You've Got Good Genes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd36

That is the premise of TV Show Omniscient, I found it interesting. They dont broadcast everything, but data is shared with appropriate authorities

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11542920/

I'm not able to find the video, but here's what was discussed in it

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reaga...

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.” -- 1970, Roger Freeman, a Hoover Institution economist and a key educational adviser to Nixon

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ684842.pdf

Once elected, Mr. Reagan set the educational tone for his administration by

• calling for an end to free tuition for state college and university students

• annually demanding 20 percent across-the-board cuts in higher education funding

• repeatedly slashing construction funds for state campuses

• engineering the firing of Clark Kerr, the highly respected president of the University of California

• declaring that the state “should not subsidize intellectual curiosity"

Reagan also tried to end department of education

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-29-mn-13948-...

I remember from some video on youtube that colleges in US used to be cheaper because government gave a lot of money to subsidise education. It stopped when government figured out that it was essentially paying to create citizens with progressive ideas and critical thought. There may be a lot of things wrong with colleges but they are essential and should be saved.

Moral judgement in international relations is not a necessity. Please think of other countries that US is allies which with same attributes mentioned in your comments. i.e. Saudi Arabia. I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, what I do mean is there are different rules for engagement between countries than people.

You are right that function may evolve over time and name may not be completely accurate but it's still partially accurate opposed to being being completely inaccurate. In your example papersupplier, I would want to create a new site for staples or better create a new site for all categories of stationary instead of modifying the old one.

I like the idea of having a generic but still descriptive name.

I think we are mixing two different scopes in the the discussion here. If you are naming a company or a product that will be offered to clients, name it something unique that'll appear in searches. However, if you're writing a piece of software that's not going to go outside the company, having descriptive name is the way to go.

You can even name your products with generic descriptive names, if your company's name is unique enough, then that'll act as a namespace for product with generic names. Think of packages in Java, C#, we don't debate about that we have to use a cute name for a X.java or X.CS, because that problem has already been solved by namespaces.

Product name Excel and Office works for Microsoft because that "Microsoft" acts as namespace and "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Excel" are unique enough to be fully qualified names.

The ntietz entry is talking about using cute names for internal services, which is very bad idea. Please enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ