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Because there's a question whether this woman is working covertly for a country that's known to do a lot of industrial espionage.

I agree that coding problems are not particularly necessary for preventing atrophy, but it would be going to far to say that people are merely panicking.

I think maybe we're conflating strictly cognitive facilities, facilities that can be maintained through all sorts of means, with intellectual skills and habits that really are in danger of atrophy when we rely too much on AI.

> think the TUI is kinda cosplay for people wanting to feel closer to the code.

Or maybe we're using a Linux distro where the GUI is not supported?

I would be wary of drawing big conclusions from the example of countries like these. The kind of boredom enjoyed in San Marino and Liechtenstein is probably not available to bigger countries.

Andreas Papandreou is another example. Chairman of UC Berkeley's economics department, but his career as prime minister of Greece was marked by scandal and constitutional crisis.

FWIW he's primarily known as a writer of fiction and memoir, not as a professor. Interestingly, half of the other professors named are fiction writers.

I expect that AI use in the more axiomatic kinds of research will be well in advance of sciences that have a heavy, messy empirical foundation, like biology.

AI workflows don't seem to be suited to image-based environments like Smalltalk's, though.

It's usually spelled "Nietzschean," I think.

I don't know. I'm inclined to think that it's more visceral. At least a good part of its appeal, and the oldest. There's the famous example of slaughterhouses using calm, predictable music and consonant harmonies to calm their animals.

> The whole "it's better than me" is just re-asserted endlessly. Nobody even pretends to care about evidence.

The evidence that the AI tool is better than oneself? I don't know about you, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of whether Claude Code is better than I am, having seen my own work and Claude's firsthand.

Cognitone Synfire is made with Smalltalk, I think: https://www.cognitone.com/products/mps/intro/page.stml . But it's not at all easy to install and use.

> This is a fallacy. Computers are very deterministic, a well designed program will not have any bugs or unforeseen failures at all.

I don't know where you think you've found a fallacy. Computing systems are expected to interact in various ways with the outside world, which does include poppy farms, and people, and other decidedly imperfect things.

Except the worms will be in your oven, and from there they'll figure out how to get into your car.

So he's stipulating a definition of the word and then saying LLMs don't meet it. A more truthful title would be, "LLMs are not tools in my narrower, idiosyncratic sense of the word." Fine, but so what?

I can't tell whether making some kind of transhumanist argument in earnest or if you're only joking, or something else altogether.

The predominance of cars (and the alternative of mass transit) doesn't do anything to change the fact that some technology or technologies have scratched walking from many people's list of central activities, and that some people who have seen the ill effects of this change have found another, more or less corrective, place for it. I take that to be the author's meaning, and I agree with them that this would be a sad diminution of a fundamental human practice.

You created an account just to say this? :(

> how the automobile age made it unnecessary to walk

Given how little Americans walk and how much blame their sedentary lifestyle has gotten for obesity and diabetes and so on, i don't think this is a good example.

EDIT: If anything it's something of a counter-example: of an activity that technology has made to a great degree superfluous, and which has to be added to one's lifestyle simply for the purpose of wellness.

> I agree 100% to what Rich has to say here, especially because, as Rich always writes, he goes to the dictionary to find correct definitions to support his argument.

I don't know why you think that's so effective a way of getting at the truth. Whether something is a tool or not is a matter of family resemblances and is not susceptible to proof or disproof. Id recommend that Hickey put down the dictionary and pick up Wittgenstein.

> And my lawyer basically just said "looks good to me" by the time they reviewed it.

Last year when i mentioned this application of LLMs somewhere on Reddit (in the course of arguing that white -collar workers are an endangered species) it was met with scorn by commenters who insisted that machines could never match the skill and care needed to write and review contracts and the like, at least not to the level demanded by the legal profession. Well maybe the human standard isn't that high to begin with; my dad was just telling me last night the story of how his lawyer had urged him to cave to a plaintiff's demands because the judge who was hearing the case "gets bored and doesn't like reading the documents." (The judge's son is currently running for the office of county prosecutor, lol.)

You're just thumping the table. It's illegal to discriminate against Jewish university students, too, but that doesn't mean that Trump's treatment of Columbia et al was justified. What do you think it means for an official to use the law as a weapon against his enemies?

I'm noticing an awful lot of tricolon, i.e., naming things in threes. Ive gotten the impression that LLMs are really fond of that device.

That's true. They seem to be more sensitive to pain in general, though. And I've wondered if that might in some people lead to a heightened degree of something called Misanthropic Person Memory: https://oscarybarra.lsa.umich.edu/Main_Site/Publications_fil...

OP is apparently working on a new language and would like some assurance that someone out there might take an interest in it someday. That doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

Skiing. He arranges his life around Nordic skiing to an incredible degree.

He's probably buying it so that he can ski through miles of virgin forest with his Norwegian bodyguards. I hate this weirdo but he's probably not going to do much to the landscape.

I don't think the problem OP has is anything so metaphysical as the fact/value distinction. This is a business, after all. It has goals (e.g., making money) that the model surely can grasp. It sounds to me more like a breakdown of organizational control owing to a lack of transparency in the tools and a general ignorance among the management.

There's been a lot of debate over the years about what exactly it was that Ambrose was doing differently, and whether silent reading was really so uncommon in antiquity.

> what a time to be alive!

It's good to hear you're enjoying yourself, but I suggest retiring that expression. It's really beginning to grate.