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It's horrible. Yet somehow they still manage to hire and have a thriving company ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Seems to work for them.

backend-backend :D

> eliminate poverty of all kinds

There was never a technical hurdle to this problem where a super-intelligent AI is what we need.

> So pointing out that an LLM has trouble with some concept doesn’t mean anything.

Why? We do the same with children, animals, and people (with severe head trauma for example). Why should AI get special treatment?

We're happy to test if crows and dolphins can do arithmetic and just all sorts of cognitive hoops.

That's not good for the environment!

> I’ve cut meat from my diet over these thoughts, it makes me want to be a slightly better steward of the other intelligences we’ve conquered.

I'm curious if you've made any changes to your life(style) to reduce the suffering of fellow human beings.

Nice :) Do you know any books or anything that address "programmability", as distinct from "computability"?

I've been mulling on it for a while now.

Computers lack non-monotonic reasoningas of now, you mean :D

This is a metal-level sentiment of the crude sentiments Dennis has already received, just more entitlement.

The article speaks of a part of the spirit of open-source, but that spirit can never supercede what a person does with something they've freely contributed without malice.

Makes you wonder who's head is really in the sand.

It would be fun to see one attempt a Gentoo install.

And it had to beat Java, Flash, etc to become the unified single language!

I see what you mean, that's thoughtful. Not what I meant though - it's not really about coordination bandwidth but rather the that we're not optimally building upon each other's work. We're siloed.

> Don't think the mountains, or the oceans, or the deserts are an idyllic virginal untouched Eden. You're going to end up getting yourself killed like the Into the Wild guy.

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. One can think of wild places as paradise while taking the necessary precautionary measures to survive there. I've camped next to a lake with hippos in it that passed a few meters from me as they strode past at sunset. A cape buffalo has done the same thing. I know what these creatures are, I know to anticipate disaster. And yet these places are still the closest thing to paradise I've ever known.

I'm curious: Is "health tourism" a thing for Americans? Healthcare is extremely cheap where I live by comparison.

That's my take-away here too.

They'll likely bring interstellar guns, germs, and steel. And bibles/qur'ans.

As Carl Sagan noted, the opposite is equally amazing. Are we really all alone? Such a waste of space-time ;)

Well the economies of far-away places with far-out people don't matter, obviously. More rhino horn soup please!

You've gotta learn to stop worrying and embrace the petro-dollar.

Have you tried chatting to it? I think it would ease your anxiety. It is impressive, but you'll see what it's definitely not when you actually sit down and quiz it. Still impressed though.

Adding to the comments here about incoherent logic. Prompt:

Bob has 10 mangoes. 2 of the mangoes go bad. 3 of the remaining mangoes are stolen by a baboon. The baboon eats one of the mangoes he stole and gives the remaining ones back to Bob. How many edible mangoes is Bob left with?

ChatGPT answer:

Bob has 10 mangoes. Two of the mangoes go bad, leaving 10 - 2 = <<10-2=8>>8 edible mangoes. Three of the remaining mangoes are stolen by a baboon, leaving 8 - 3 = <<8-3=5>>5 edible mangoes. The baboon eats one of the mangoes he stole, leaving 3 mangoes. The baboon then gives the remaining mangoes back to Bob, leaving Bob with 5 + 3 = <<5+3=8>>8 edible mangoes. Therefore, Bob is left with 8 edible mangoes.

What a pleasant surprise! I hadn't listened to Symbolic in a while.

Nice. Nitpick but the writing sounded off to me. Too much use of the word "social media" where a person would have used "it" or some other language construct.

Are you in the US/Europe? Your job market in tech is utterly unbelievable for people outside those regions, even now. It simply rains (tech) jobs over there in biblical proportions.

My observation too with 80/20. In fact - the system seems to be designed to work as such. You'd be going against the grain trying to make things anything other than 80/20. The only concern for individuals is: is being in either group in line with your personal goals?

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Dreyfus and his infamous What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, especially given the bold title.

For me, GOFAI was simply the earliest attempts at experimenting with the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis: A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action - Newell & Simon[0]

And like any hypothesis, all we have to do is falsify it...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_symbol_system#Argumen...

Yeah the title is misleading, I clicked on it assuming some monumental discovery had been made that I missed being a huge fan of GOFAI.

I've ever understood it either. I love s-expressions! But I suppose there must be something to the complaint. If you ask me I'd say Python's space-as-syntax is far more horrible, but doesn't get nearly the same amount of vitriol.

The hijacked cursor is very annoying and disappears as one scrolls. Not sure what it's meant to achieve.