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(My terminal optimism talking here)

So... is this the same strategy as their "flatten the curve" early COVID policy?

Slow everything down because resources aren't available, hoping that the entire system doesn't go bankrupt and explode, because that would be worse?

Hoping that eventually some kind of solution will be available, and wanting to still at least exist when that time comes?

From reading the article, it sounds like an enforced standardisation? Like, asking for account age bracket and then having a standard API to ask for it would be easy, right? Just write it to a root owned `~/.age-bracket` for each user or something (obviously something better).

It's a feature many apps implement in all kinds of ways already, especially games and social media stuff, so this, in theory, just makes it easier and consistent?

I'm against leaking our kids ages, and all the privacy and other concerns as much as anyone, but are we just getting overly angry too quickly on this one?

I get that it's a slippery slope too.

How much of this is genuine, and how much is the one-upmanship of needing to say Claude is just as powerful as gpt?

I fully expect both.

Also, given that AI content is still the responsibility of the person prompting, and not the AI company, then *surely* anthropic must be liable for this?

A few related thoughts from my spiritual tradition...

resist evil, but flee temptation.

Build willpower through disciplines, such as fasting, meditation, stillness.

Think about the larger value that a smaller temptation points to - junk candy food is an echo of the celebration food from a community event - the connection of enjoying delicious food together with others is something beautiful, so invest and look forward to that. How can we have more deep celebration times, and less binge snacking?

Life is complex!

Peace

Massive plus one for Language Transfer. It's well presented, interesting, and kept me engaged. The whole concept is finding connections to language you already know, and gets you thinking in fuller more complex thoughts and sentences really quickly. The audio lessons are free on various podcast platforms / YouTube etc.

What is the workout you do?

The AI tool report shown to the dean with "85% match" Will be used as "proof".

If you want more proof, then you can take the essay, give it to chatGPT and say, "Please give me a report showing how this essay is written to en by AI."

People treat AI like it's an omniscient god.

Well, right. If I'm using an LLM to create code, I'm going to use all my skill and experience to review and shape the code to standards I'm ok with.

But for people with extremely limited experience, LLMs offer a "create an app by talking!!" Zero understanding required. So they won't know to not leak user PII in JSON responses or have publicly writable endpoints or keeping private keys for external services server side and outside of the code base, etc... Let alone anything more complex.

I just played with townie AI for an hour or so... Very cool! Very fun.

There's still some glitches, occasionally the entire app code would get replaced by the function the LLM was trying to update. I could fix it by telling it that's what had happened, and it would then fill everything in again... Waiting for the entire app to be rewritten each time was a bit annoying.

It got the initial concepts of the app very very quickly running, but then struggled with some CSS stuff, saying it would try a different approach, or apologising for missing things repeatedly...and eventually it told me it would try more radical approaches and wrote online styles... I wonder if the single file approach has limitations in that respect.

Very interesting, very fun to play with.

I'm kind of concerned for security things with LLM written apps - you can ask it to do things and it says yes, without really thinking if it's a good idea or not.

But cool!

And anything which helps with the internet to be full of small independent quirky creative ideas, the better.

I guess also for context, a lot of the code I write is closer to the "house" or even "potatoes".

A one-off script to extract data for a report - potato.

A brochure website for a company that'll be replaced in 6 years, a small house (or even just an interior of a house, or kitchen revamp...).

This is interesting. But still pretty early, right? (As in, no real docs, not ready for publication...)?

It looks like a start of a packages.lock.json kind of tool for dependency resolution eventually?

Or am I missing something?

Also rich patrons supporting artists was how many of the greatest artworks of many civilisations were commissioned for thousands of years...

Is writing software closer to growing potatoes or designing the Sagrada de Familia, or writing the Clarinet Concerto?

I'd argue that writing a web browser is a lot closer in scope to writing a symphony than building a house - at least in audience and durability. In a house's life time, maybe 100 people live in it, and perhaps 2000 people visit it, but a browser, or a symphony, will have an audience of millions.

The market is massively smaller. The impact massively larger.