zephyr9

You were so close! The takeaway is not that LlmS represent a bottomless tar pit of piracy (they do) but that someone can immediately perform the task 58% better without the AI than with it. This is nothing more than “look what the clever computer can do.”

That’s interesting. I thought your cat analogy (which I really liked) was going to be an example of how LLMs do not have understanding the way a cat understands the skill of jumping. But then you went the other way.

A robot could certainly be programmed to get food for a sick, dying friend (I mean, don't drones deliver Uber Eats?) but it will never understand why, or have a phenomenal experience of the act, or have a mental state of performing the act, or have the biological brain state of performing the act, or etc. etc.

> isn't this also telling us what "understanding" is?

When people start studying theory of mind someone usually jumps in with this thought. It's more or less a description of Functionalism (although minus the "mental state"). It's not very popular because most people can immediately identify an phenomenon of understanding separate from the function of understanding. People also have immediate understanding of certain sensations, e.g. the feeling of balance when riding a bike, sometimes called qualia. And so on, and so forth. There is plenty of study on what constitutes understanding and most healthily dismiss the "string of words" theory.

I'm surprised at this. I find music discovery easy. Some tips:

On Bandcamp: in addition to obviously following artists I like, I follow several fan accounts of those artists, then I can see what they buy. I also try to sample the Bandcamp album of the day.

On NTS.live I have a bunch of favourite hosts and try to listen to every show they release, and note the track listing. Too many to ever get through.

Podcasts: NPR All Songs Considered, and Resident Advisor when I can.

On Apple Music there's the algorithm. Hit or miss.

Back in the heydays of music blogs I would find a lot of great stuff on Hype Machine, but alas, I think those days are gone.

Just with these few sources I find there is far too much great new music to get through in one lifetime. Godspeed!

It seems the total disregard that the tech community showed toward copyright when it was artists losing out has come back to bite. Face-eating leopards, etc.

Old software is depreciated. To deprecate software would be to call it names.

Hello mathematics, meet philosophy.

As always, the best way to protect your house is with the law, not a better lock.

Regulation is constructive, deregulation is destructive.

Great framework. Unfortunately Apple hijack certain arrow shapes (e.g. the home button) and incorrectly display these as emoji. There’s a CSS override you can add to prevent this but I don’t remember off top of my head.

> many tools and developers rely on or automatically assume that commit hashes are collision resistant.

Solution seems to be don't. Use the tool as the tool was intended.

SourceHut is more reliable than GitHub. I mean this in the truest sense of the word, I can rely on SourceHut not to act against my interests, both ideologically and just basic usefulness.

And Restic just got the ability to rewrite snapshots, i.e. retroactively remove material added to backup.

Do you not remember high school? Nerds hate artists.

Is this just a site for people to steal authors' work?