jackdoe

أول أمسdiscuss

> It's the same tech that's scalable to a certain limit of diminishing return.

of course, my point was that gpt3->4o was smaller jump than opus 4.6->fable

jackdoe

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yes, I assume we will have the 'replicator' from Star Trek, and programs will just appear as you want them.

experiencing the gpt3->4o->sonnet4->opus4.6->fable trajectory I am fairly confident what we call programmer today will not exist, in the same time regular people will finally be able to tell computers what to do and this will unlock the next stage of complexity in manufacturing/material science/medicine and so on.

of course I am likely wrong, people say: its never as good or as bad as you think.

jackdoe

أول أمسdiscuss

the elastic demand will be consumed by ai

jevon's paradox just says people will consume more software as software gets cheaper, which is likely true, not that there will be more high paid jobs for programmers.

as programmers are not the resource, the program is the resource, programmers were the means of production of said resource.

stated differently: in a world where you dont need programmers to make programs, there is infinity of programs, and no jobs for programmers.

jackdoe

قبل 4 أيامdiscuss

I vibecoded https://punkx.org/apl/learn.html [1] its good slow entry into gnu-apl, at least it got me to be able to make tictactoe, vibecoded or not, it helped me to start.

I am amazed how quickly APL changed the way I think.

Also strongly recommend watching Aaron Hsu on youtube.

There is no better time to re-learn programming, try APL, Forth, LISP, z80 machine code, UXN TAL, just try new things.

"Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."

[1]: https://github.com/jackdoe/gnu-apl-wasm source of the repl and learn playground and also how to compile gnu apl to wasm (vibecoded)

jackdoe

قبل 4 أيامdiscuss

there is only so much attention/time human beings have

games are competing with netflix competing with tiktok competing with sleep

    Johnny Mnemonic: Yeah, the Black Shakes. What causes it?
    Spider: What causes it?
    [points to various pieces of equipment throughout the room]
    Spider: This causes it! This causes it! This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it. Let me do my work.

jackdoe

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

Its discounted on steam summer sale, I bought it and played all evening yesterday.

Printed the zine.

It took me to my happy place.

Thank you.

jackdoe

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

why would they compete with it when its open?

jackdoe

قبل 17 يومًاdiscuss

> You always buy fossil fuels with an EV,

"always" is just not true. "most of the time" is true, and it will get less and less as time goes by.

jackdoe

قبل 19 يومًاdiscuss

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

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قبل 21 يومًاdiscuss

there is a difference in a kid asking a LLM to explain 0! or 0^0 and to ask it to be its friend.

jackdoe

قبل 25 يومًاdiscuss

we are closer to watering our farms with gatorade than mining landfills for lithium.

jackdoe

قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

> Social media is a HUGE shift to society

Our teens are living through a changing time: peak unregulated social media, that I personally belive is approaching heroin level addiction and damage; covid lockdowns testing the very limits of Piagetian theory; AI in school and outsourcing understanding; very uncertain job market to enter into; possibly the collapse of AMOC; reaching Peloponnesian war level of unstable democracy; the true collapse of idealism, the birth of the mechanical man and the first total spiritual crisis

Our institutions absolutely can not react with the accelerated change, so I think the only thing a parent can do is act as individuals, teach their children, and position their families in the best way they can to weather the storm.

AI romantic partners are coming.

jackdoe

قبل 29 يومًاdiscuss

I have no idea if this is AI or not. I tried reading it, and was doubting every sentence. Damn. At this point I am not sure it matters. Few years ago I would've read it with joy.

I love Tom Bombadil, Tolkien's ghost.

jackdoe

قبل 29 يومًاdiscuss

yes, that is my point, but at some point, better is unmeasurable, and both the better and the not-as-good produce similar result, and then you pick the one with 1/10th of the price

jackdoe

قبل 29 يومًاdiscuss

I think there is some threshold after which "best" model doesn't matter, we are not that far from it. Fable now is really good, in a year or so, if Kimi catches up, even if Fable6 is much better, I think I will use kimi at 1/10th of the price.

I said that about opus 4.5 at the time, thinking "this is so good, in 6-12 months the Chinese models will be as good and cheap, I will use them", but I was wrong.. I pay premium for opus4.7/8 and Fable.

But at some point, it will just do the thing you want it to do, and then the race to the bottom will start.

Now that Chinese companies have access to some very good Fable tokens, I hope it speeds up the race.

jackdoe

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

denying smartphone basically makes your kid an outcast, which might be fine for some kids, not fine for others, but ignoring that, the school basically requires smartphones, even uses apps to open the lockers, or to communicate about group projects.

apple's parental controls are total joke, per app blocks are not good at all, what you want is content type blocks, which of course is impossible.

example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254480754?sortBy=rank

jackdoe

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I have seriously dealt with this for 30 years, from before cups existed, and as I said I have forgotten more about lpd and cups than most people know.

You have no idea how much I don't want to understand.

I am not being witty for comedic effect.

jackdoe

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I have forgotten more ways to fix CUPS than most people know today.

I really don't care.

jackdoe

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I wish it had more sense of humor and would print 'I am trapped inside your printer' or something :)

jackdoe

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I did not know where it printed it from, but after that I printed from chrome without issue.

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