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Nah, clearly spiders and fish etc. are pretty much as conscious as humans, and LLMs aren't conscious at all.

U.S. government likes storing employee data as "controlled unclassified", in other words "totally not secure at all".

Do they mean like, a version of Windows where I don't have to go into folder options and click "show file extensions"?

They're pretty good for me, because I am still writing all the code, and it tends to catch the sorts of things humans mess up.

Not subtraction, not division.

Probably every language at once being expressed in the syntax of English.

The dream is "I have an idea for some awesome software, I will set an army of lemmings out to do all the tough work of figuring out how it actually works".

Well I do have an idea for some awesome software, I know exactly what the user experience should be, but the lemmings are producing useless software that resembles my idea in the way a Fisher-Price phone resembles a real phone. With frontier models, now far less buggy useless software following code conventions perfectly.

I don't understand how people are using AI.

A lot of the time, what I want to build, doesn't have a succinct English sentence to describe it. If I describe the user requirement I just get a Fisher-Price toy thing that kind of ignores most of the adjectives and adverbs in my requirement. So I'd have to prompt with a big list of specs and algorithms for the specific thing I want. Then what's the point?

Yeah, still write by hand.

Even though the translation from English algorithm to code is the "boring" part that an LLM can do, the process of doing that works as a kind of REM sleep where I'm coming up with ways to make the program better

And for a lot of simple tasks, there's plenty of stuff where it's quicker to type a command than an English description of the same thing.

Maybe we could all pitch in on the most evil book ever, with instructions on how to do every possible horrible thing. Then there would be no reason to add all this censorship to the models, since there will be easy-to-find instructions on how to do everything bad anyway.

Lots of copies of the Windows source code still on GitHub, which is problematic if you're interested in NT and want to contribute to Wine or something...hard to avoid running into restricted code

Usually when this type of thing happens, all the major players decide to do it at the same time.

It's clearly smarter than any PhD and dumber than any ant.

Yeah, you read it and expect the inversion to be inside-out or upside-down, defined in some hopelessly arcane way.