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I mean, some do write in their own bespoke technical jargon (Lacan, Derrida) which does require a lot of investment to get into, but a lot of continental philosophy uses a shared lexicon because they're building off of each other's ideas. It's a conversation. At the very least Butler is not the biggest offender in this regard.

Cool read. Would fit nicely into a broader cultural analysis Instrumental Rationality, which I would argue is the upstream cause of this phenomenon as the dominant framework of the world since the industrial revolution.

the OTP code input focus ring doesn't actually align with the input, there are these tiny gaps around the corners.

It always amuses me when people throw a fit when they can't understand technical philosophy written by experts, for experts. You never see someone posting an excerpt from a physics journal and being like "ugh so inaccessible!!!"

Like, I'd get maybe if she wrote this in a NYT opinion piece– but this was written an obscure book you'd have to go out of your way to find.

BTW, this is not that hard to comprehend if you're familiar with continental philosophy, go figure!

Love living in a manifestly dysfunctional country with no regulatory state. Just running the country on autopilot until something catastrophic happens.

> We're going to have to figure out how to protect ourselves. The start is to avoid it individually as much as we can, but it's going to take even more.

Collective problems require coordinated action. Individual boycotts won't cut it.

Yeah it's problem of sensibility. Like people do not realize that developing a sensibility and good taste here is an actual still that takes time, and is highly undervalued in tech circles with the exception of a handle of truly design driven companies.

It's a symptom of the long standing ghettoization of design and front end engineering. FE has always been cast as frivolous and unserious by conceited developers.

That's how you get slop that feels uncanny. There's no one in the room with the taste to call it out and no one in the room who cares enough to put in the time to fix it.

Yeah I think one of the vestiges of the "liberal consensus" era of politics (pre 2016) was that "persuasion" was seen as the only valid way to advance your advocacy. But the shattering of that consensus has allowed the left of center to realize that, in fact, winning is what matters. Your biggest ideological opponents by definition cannot be persuaded- politics is now a tightly coupled to the ego and therefore someone attempting to change your beliefs is deeply threatening.

The right learned this a long time ago. Persuasion does not matter. Our system is winner take all. Winning is all that matters. Online debate is a waste of time. Find your base and activate them instead.

I think a big issue we keep running into is this idea that language is ambiguous but code is somehow not. Code is merely an extension of language, a DSL if you will. Implicit assumptions become baked into the logic of the code and those assumptions can be wrong.

Look at the guy whose AI changed the entire rules of the game to avoid breaking the law. Was that really the desired outcome? And the more you try to lock it down the more language you add and therefore more ambiguity and assumptions.

You cannot solve the problems of language with more language.

Yeah all of these attempts to try and control AI outputs by using language fail to grasp that language is itself the problem. It is a closed system with no ground truth. Words only point to other words in an endless self-referential chain. There is no "closure" in language, ambiguity cannot be erased.

Imo LLM researchers would benefit a lot by reading what continental philosophers have said on the topic of language. Barthes, Sarte, Deluze, Derrida, et. Al have a lot to say that explains why we're running into the same problems over and over.

Did they fix the thing where you have to wait like 2 seconds for the context menu to open up when you want to paste something? Does anyone else notice that you tap on the screen and it takes literally 3 full seconds for the little pop-up where you can press the paste button to appear,

Models have gotten a lot better at generating native iOS apps. The main appeal of RN was being able to leverage your web devs for mobile dev. that's what I did at my last company. And it's fine for a startup, but eventually you want dedicated native engineers bc each platform really deserves its own technical masters who can optimize for it.

But now that all code is generated, there's little upside to having an RN app... just start native. Your devs are barely going to be writing code anyway.

Yes, that felt very bizarre and glossed over. The specific details the speaker gave made me feel like it was a weird product placement, but like, _why_? Why would this multi-trillion-dollar behemoth needs to strike a brand deal with Quest?