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drowsspa
·letzten Monat·discuss
Would be nice if people published the prompts, thoughts and responses of the LLMs together with the code, in order to fight against these restrictions... Instead of just publishing the final result and talking vaguely about how they prompted the LLM in a Hacker news comment or Twitter thread

If LLMs are the new compilers those are the actual source code
drowsspa
·letzten Monat·discuss
Yeah I'd love to see a cookie cutter project with all of the best practices of the boilerplate files
drowsspa
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
I think the issue is about our not believing what religious people themselves tell us about their reasoning
drowsspa
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
At least the compiler was free
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, I grew up poor in the 3rd world (not quite Chad level though) and even the upper class culture of my own country was almost alien for us and vice versa... Imagine the 1st world.
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, as soon as you don't need children to help with your work, they don't make much sense in the capitalist individualistic society. That women still choose to do it, honestly... I see as a triumph of the human spirit
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Who do you think is their perceived neighborhood in time and space?

(edit) And moreover, they still need their children to help with their work... So honestly, any analysis that doesn't take this huge confounding variable is just silly
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
People compare themselves to their perceived neighborhood in time and space, not to peasants from 5 thousand years ago.
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Funny how you don't realize you fit perfectly into the description of one of the groups that know exactly what is going on.
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
That's not how it works. Two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if there's no heat transfer between them: that's the zeroth law of thermodynamics. If you're colder than 2.73K in deep space, you will absorb the heat from the Cosmic Microwave Background. If you're hotter, you will irradiate heat away. So it does have a temperature.
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Honestly back when I was still in college one and a half decade ago, it was quite clear the whole Nvidia-only ML and AI libraries weren't a good idea
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
That was the point of the successive questions in the second paragraph...
drowsspa
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
You still need to compile when those libraries are not pre compiled.
drowsspa
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I find it amazing how much the mess that building C/C++ code has been for so many decades seems to have influenced the direction technology, the economy and even politics has been going.

Really, what would the world look like if this problem had been properly solved? Would the centralization and monetization of the Internet have followed the same path? Would Windows be so dominant? Would social media have evolved to the current status? Would we have had a chance to fight against the technofeudalism we're headed for?
drowsspa
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
That's basically the idea behind zero trust, isn't it? The idea being that you can't even knock on the TCP port if you're not authenticated
drowsspa
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I guess we'd have to see the graph with the evolution of paying customers: I don't see the number of potential-but-not-yet clients being that high, certainly not one order of magnitude higher. And everyone already knows OpenAI, they don't have the benefit of additional exposure when they go viral: the only benefit seems to be to hype up investors.

And there's something else about the diminishing returns of going viral... AI kind of breaks the usual assumptions in software: that building it is the hard part and that scaling is basically free. In that sense, AI looks more like regular commodities or physical products, in that you can't just Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V: resources are O(N) on the number of users, not O(log N) like regular software.
drowsspa
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
Yeah, for instance: even if Trump's bullying works for now, he made sure that most governments in Latin America, including right wing ones, will prioritize uncoupling the country from the US economy. Even if they won't say this quiet part out loud.
drowsspa
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
We have gambling addicts and the sociopaths they worship deciding the fate of mankind...

Seriously I can't see any benefit in this large scale financial engineering
drowsspa
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
4. The community seems to have realized that untangling the mess that is building C/C++ stuff is a fool's errand and seems to mostly prefer to reimplement it in Go
drowsspa
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
A bit, and it's not like it's too much of a hassle