As technology advanced, humans grew accustomed to relying on the machines.

honestly the only important difference between them is that emacs’s default keybindings can and will give you a repetitive stress injury (ask me how i know…)

Apparently MIT is teaching a vibe coding class:

How will this year’s class differ from last year’s? There will be some major changes this year:

• Units down from 18 to 15, to reflect reduced load
• Grading that emphasizes mastery over volume
• More emphasis on design creativity (and less on ethics)
• Not just permission but encouragement to use LLMs
• A framework for exploiting LLMs in code generation

i might try writing such a post!

When people compile compilers do they actually specialize a compiler to itself (as in definition 3 in the paper) as one of the steps? That’s super interesting if so, I had no idea. My only knowledge of bootstrapping compilers is simple sequences of compilers that work on increasing fragments of the language, culminating with the final optimizing compiler being able to compile itself (just once).

I’ve been using Anki, it works great but requires you to supply the discipline and willingness to learn yourself, which might not be possible for kids.

are we really clutching our pearls because someone named themselves after a demon

ok but what does this mean for Batman vs Lex Luthor

Wasn’t Heidegger a Nazi, and his works famously avoid any mention of the Holocaust?

xcancel

im doing my part

Yudkowskian Probability Theory

what a throwback

Dan Luu’s “A discussion of discussions on AI bias”, about techbros trying to gaslight the rest of the world into thinking ML models don’t have problems

okay but if they hadn’t done that we wouldn’t have gotten this work of art

Why when we look into the stars do we not see a sign of life anywhere else? Has life not emerged yet or has it wiped itself out? With what? Nukes? AI? Synthetic viruses made with AI? Who knows…

entertaining this awful sci-fi schtick for a moment - if every civilization is wiped out by “superintelligent AI”, how come you can’t look through a telescope and see signs of artificial life? in this fantasy world shouldn’t planets taken over by paperclip factories be even more conspicuous?

value is when line go up

why tf can’t she say the word “racist”? like is it supposed to be a dogwhistle insinuating similarity between “racist” and “leftist”??

I don’t want to come and help “balance out” someone who thinks that using they/them pronouns is worse than committing genocide.

Does anyone really think this, or are you just using hyperbole?

Not hyperbole. Hanania, Manifest promoted speaker, wrote “Why Do I Hate Pronouns More Than Genocide?” in May 2022.

I just can’t, it’s like that one scene from Austin Powers.