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At that point, though, you could make the same argument about a rock. Prove that this rock is not conscious.

The context, though, is that Data is both credibly conscious and self aware, and they all know a plausible mechanism for him to have consciousness and self awareness, in a way that's recognizably human in form. The more alien a (supposed) consciousness is, I think the more work you'll have to do in justifying the application of those labels.

Seems like you aren't actually disagreeing at all?

First you're just disagreeing about the relative importance of "community" vs the license used. This does not seem like an important distinction, blog rhetorical structuring aside, since the value of each is really "it depends" (in the extreme, neither community or license matter if no one ever sees or hears of the code, for instance).

Second:

> If I publish my code under an open source license... If I keep my code proprietary...

That isn't even the distinction that the author is making. They're only talking about communities around open source code. They spell out the dichotomy quite explicitly:

> This is why I don't care as much anymore about a project being under a copyleft free software license or a non-copyleft free software license.

> It's the same thing I feel when I hear Terence Tao speak about AI

Which talk of his gave this impression?

Also, "ok, and now I've cloned your hard work overnight, no need for any decisions on my part, I just had my agent use yours and reverse engineered it and/or used it as an oracle. Why the frown? I thought you were in this for intellectual curiosity and exercising your creativity, not just stroking own ego, right?"

> Why should the average person reduce his/her life quality in order to save the climate

Read what you quoted again. That's not what it says.

> That doesn't hold anymore? AI doesn't care how hard or easy a migration is if a test suite exists.

Sure, but that only matters if migration is going to be the last thing anyone does on a project. Unless you think typescript 7.1 ought to be enough for anybody, it also matters what the typescript team wants to write/read/reason in.

Well, no, not exactly. The article says vscode is compiled in 5.28s in typescript 7.1 (nightly), and in 1.73s in tsrs (dev), which is 3x faster.

This is for Facebook Pages, not for users. Average facebook daily user can keep posting 35 links a day to their favorite slop site.

> “I’m on a war footing,” he said

So not remotely the same thing.

> Similarly, Tao being ‘on the warpath’

Do you think that this is a quote from the article you just read?

I swear half the comments here are just from people reading dunks on r/singularity and x and getting real mad at strawmen.

> basically both sides now dislike that he flip flopped

No, the dumb thing is the idea that there are "sides".

> basically both sides now dislike that he flip flopped

Literally the only people with this opinion of Tao are internet forum warriors who have no expertise in the field and who's opinion of Tao don't matter in the slightest.

> wouldn’t that only offer a new view from such a mathematician

Don't invent things to get mad about, please.

> The Dune Encyclopedia, which was not written by him but which he said he considered canonical

No, he literally wrote in the intro to the book that it wasn't canon. It was a fan project and he thought that it was great there were fans doing things like that.

edit: and like with the terrible Dune prequels, the impulse to say "here's what really happened" usually diminishes what's interesting and powerful about oblique allusions in SF meant at least partly to function as a mirror on humanity.

> As someone who is building one of these referred to systems in a major vertical in the Fortune 500, these LLMs are very much being used to eat major legacy systems and processes

> Senior Director of Product in Insurance Tech

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> This is a "you" problem for the math establishment, not a problem for the AI companies

This was a talk given to other mathematicians about the future of mathematics; sounds like only "you" have a problem for some reason.