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Comment · 18 days ago
That book specifically named Donald Trump as the type of figure who could channel thumotic desire into upsetting the neoliberal order back in the early 90s. The title of that book obviously was to generate attention and sales, not a literal statement.
Comment · 1 month ago
We already don't understand LLMs and they are having oberservable effects
Comment · 1 month ago
They also benefit from the commodification of software/knowledge work since they own manufacturing
Comment · 4 months ago
This could be a backdoor to accomplishing just that, which I would welcome
Comment · 5 months ago
"AI recombines successfully" is a phrase that makes me think of the human corpus as a genome and a particular AI response as a child of the parent prompt, with the thinking a model does in response to the prompt basically being a form of information sex.
Comment · 6 months ago
That hasn't been true since the invention of the smartphone
Comment · 6 months ago
Which in turn is bad for vibe coding
Comment · 7 months ago
Javascript and Python have the most training data by far though, right?
Comment · 7 months ago
I only say that because I also have a cane, shaped like epic atheist bacon :)
Comment · 7 months ago
"I got the feeling that Haskell was a quirky choice, t3h penguin of doom holding a spork."

I love how recognizable Millennials can be online

Comment · 5 years ago
Would a disassembler be more reliable than a decompiler you think? That could be a whole lot of code you'd be looking at in assembly language.
Comment · 5 years ago
How the hell do you even begin without source code? Run a decompiler on the binary?

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