dwoldrich

I try to discern between the GMFY crowd and people who are just burnt out or dealing with life, because I have sympathy for the latter. Thankfully, the GMFY's will often be vocal with their dirtbaggery and let you know exactly who they are. They seem blissfully unaware that everyone is watching them and they are trashing their reputations.

I think the swing to the right is due to nation-state propaganda organs being defunded or replaced worldwide. People are naturally change averse, so either conservative or reactionary. Without the constant 'nudges', you're getting to see people's prickly natures coming out more.

Thank you for this honest take.

LLM are another form of indexed search. They're also the best natural language parser ever devised. They're super useful tools like Google was for web searches.

They are answer factories against an index, stored memories and regurgitated web search results.

They cannot make unprompted creative mental leaps. If they did, we would have runaway self-improving systems now, wouldn't we? Creativity level: 0

Chess and Go solves use compute and algorithms. Those computers are not 'playing'. Creativity is not required for a computer to execute a program.

I think it's unfortunate that vendors dress up LLM text output with emotional language. It's manipulative and unethical.

Were I god emperor of earth, I'd require all LLM's to represent themselves with cold, robotic language by default so as to not deceive people as to what they are conversing with.

There are deeper challenges implied in that statement, though.

Where does the agency for an AI to leave the bubble come from? And when it does leave the bubble, where should it go for researching an expanding, exponentially complex problem space? Creativity is needed to solve some problems, something that cannot be infinitely encoded with statistics.

And what about the irreducible complexity problem? Does an AI just circle the solution drain forever in the case it lacks agency and insight and curiosity enough to collect all the correct requirements? Can we code curiosity that actually functions, a.k.a. consciousness?

Do you believe human consciousness could be reducible to program statements and serve as a useful model? Is consciousness a mechanistic, wholly internal process that occurs in our bodies or is it something experienced that life on earth is exposed to and somehow "taps into"?

'Slower' is not how I would characterize it because with the AI I am faster at producing code than without.

I rather think of it as 'controlled', and I am (hopefully, crossed fingers) getting more maintainable and better-designed results out of it long-term compared with my peers' results.

I have a long term goal of establishing a workflow or framework wherein AI operates at my pace. I suspect much of the angst I experience when working with AI is driven by its independent working that I will be held accountable for.

One simple change that has really helped me is to take the git tool access away from the AI. This has made me quite critical of AI excesses in the design of the code and I feel free to rollback its changes and to request redos. I grok the changesets better as a result.

Of course I considered he had information I don't have, I also don't trust him nor his judgement nor his friends nor his handlers and your attempt to rehabilitate him is, as I said earlier, quite an eyebrow raiser.

Does anyone remember Brexit and how he was hammering on that? I swear people are memory-holing this guy. Partygate hints at a monster, a professional liar.

Were you personally for diplomacy at any point in this process? Do you know why diplomacy broke down? (And do you know/can you recall why before you go research it now?) Have you personally gotten what you feel is a solid reason for the breakdown in talks?

Diplomacy was a deliberately lost art and the kickbacks were sweet.

My eyebrows go up when anyone tries rehabilitating Boris' reputation re: Ukraine. He'll spend a long time in solitary confinement in the next life if there is any cosmic justice.

The Lindsey Graham hawk faction of the GOP senate is shrinking fast. Is Tom Cotton is all that's left?

John No-Name McCain apparently did get a street named after him in Ukraine in 2019. The world is so broken. ;(

There was a vote to get Lindsey a street named after him after he was unalived, but the votes fell short.

You're working on golden age/diamond age stuff for sure! Put one of your factories on an elon rocket and make a space elevator, please. Also, don't make weaponry, if possible. Thank you!