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Language changes. People at work have started saying things are an easy lift instead of a quick win. And it's not new hires, it's the people I've worked with for years. I never got on board with quick win either.

Some people adopt stuff faster than others. I've lived in NZ for nearly 20 years and called someone bro for the first time just last week while playing a sport "should have left it for me bro". Slipped out natural as. Still having bad thoughts about it.

AI didn't solve large parts of mathematics. Which is not to say the the results aren't interesting or remarkable. Proving that Navier-Stokes blows up with certain external forces is important. But it's just a step, like seeing a pattern in data with no insight into what the data represents. Understanding why and where the fluid dynamics model is wrong is more interesting, if this enabled that then it's great.

All the proofs they've produced are interesting but they seem to be based on the work of mathematicians who nearly got there. As yet, no big leaps of insight. Again, I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's also not a demonstration of intelligence beyond reckoning. I also read it cost something on the order of $15m of inference per problem, maybe a whole army of mathematicians could have got there too if that was available.

> I am, however, a veteran and served my country for many years so that (assuming you're American) you can freely call me names on the internet (unlike our friends across the pond).

No recent military action undertaken by the US has had any effect on free speech at home, except possibly negatively if you bundle it with the various laws that came about after 9/11. Likewise, no military action is linked to the state of free speech in the UK, it's just how things have worked out culturally and socially. Nothing wrong with serving, but you didn't get to go and defend American ideals particularly.

put a cardboard box over them

Their argument also leads to a situation where they're saying that only certain activities (i.e. the ones they want) are acceptable in the public commons. But as the commons it could host activities you disagree with, that are mutually exclusive to the ones you do agree with. Like one person doesn't like buskers and feels they're impinging on their enjoyment of a common area whereas others enjoy the entertainment.

> obstruction of free movement, interference with a business open to the public, false imprisonment, and assault

thing is, those all apply to a person. if a person is in the robot then it makes sense. If a person is driving the robot remotely then it gets blurry. If it's autonomous then none of those seem to apply, the robot has no right of free movement.

About half the article is the author perving over young lady dentists.

You were making a good point until you compared tax in NZ to the USA. If you're making software eng type of salary you pay less effective tax in NZ compared to California ($200k in both). If you factor in health insurance it grows further. I know because I moved from NZ to CA then back again. I got paid more in CA, but my life wasn't materially better - I was able to save more in NZ.

If NZ really wanted to help startups they'd sort out the tax problems with options so that companies can actually interest people in taking risk by working for new businesses.

Personally, I think I'd be in favour of a wealth tax if I had the kind of wealth that could be taxed. I don't resent the tax I pay now.

> Humanity has the serious problem of being underdeveloped in the "spiritual" department.

Not arguing that we shouldn't strive to do far far better here, better is by our own imagining. There is no development scale. There are no aliens or prior non human civilizations to compare against. So we're not underdeveloped. We are as we are. For all we know we're at peak capacity and humanity will never be better.

> working with an LLM is much more like working with another person than working with traditional software

Have to disagree with this line of thinking, and I think it's even more dangerous with intimation further down that using an LLM for coding is akin to being a manager of people.

You do not have to consider the feelings of an LLM. You can micromanage it as much as you like, and you can modify it's thought processes. Don't like this one? Switch to another model. Most importantly, you cannot /new on a person and get a fresh state.

Working with people means building trust, respecting their autonomy, and considering how your actions affect them. I worry a lot that the transactional nature we treat LLMs is leaking into how we treat other people. And yeah, there's an argument there about how that was already the case, company / society culture and so on, but I mean additive or multiplicative to that.

LLMs feel to me like an entirely new kind of interaction, and I'd rather it was discussed in ways that set it away from how we interact with people, making the differences clear.

> - they are amoral > - they have no innate sense of proportion > - they cannot assess their own confidence in-band

Are you talking about the LLMs or the people at OpenAI running the experiment? Or are they the same?

Which leaders? I don't believe any of the players thought they would gain empire in Europe. Everyone was trying to be defensive, combined with slow communication and poor politics. Now that historians have access to much of the internal documentation it doesn't seem like an inevitable war. If only the Habsburgs had been more decisive, or Wilhelm more politically astute, instead of making grand gestures then going on a boating holiday with his British naval mates.

It's not that they needed an excuse to say no, it's that they each thought backing down would be worse. And tbh I don't think any the current leaders are better. Nicholas II "I will not become responsible for a monstrous slaughter" vs Putin's war of choice.

It's the kind of thing that looks cool in demos, but is annoying when you have to put up with it everyday. I usually have all animations on my phones turned off. I turned them on yesterday to test something and I'm already getting tired of all the fade ins, blurs, window movements etc - it's quite tiring when you know you can have that screen immediately.

Didn't he start that campaign at a conference for WordPress developers funded by WP engine? I don't have any insight into what they did or didn't contribute, but it seems their obligation was zero and their level was quite a bit higher than that.

I don't disagree but it's not like I can turn back time. That said, it does seem that brain plasticity is better for older people than commonly thought, so never write off learning. It takes longer, but you might balance that by having more patience for it. It might be that I'd never have gotten this even if I started as young as my kids.