Simon Andersson

Decentralize AI

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

No system in human history has allowed more people to sit in their garden making art than capitalism

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@Rothmus And they made aluminum canoes but these did not have the stealth technology... With my cousin I tried to catch eels from one but the eels escaped 😁

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@ArtemisConsort Happy birthday!

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@getjonwithit @xegression Interesting... But prompts do not specify things unambiguously! Their effectiveness depends on the AI making sensible default choices.

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

Getting close 😀 https://t.co/sqa9pmDF5U

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

Would be neat to have a solar powered, credit card sized device for simple tasks. So your don't have to carry a phone/tablet just to have your train ticket or look at photos.

[Noah Dasanaike @dasanaike]

I want to up the ante on this. If you have a large document collection, I will digitize it for you, for free (you pay for inference), on one condition: that we make the data publicly available immediately.

[François Fleuret @francoisfleuret]

Current state of AI

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@esrtweet @grnspd Draining?

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@readswithravi It also works for the rest of the week.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Using AI assistance for programming is an education in what I actually like about programming.

Long ago, when asked to explain why I liked programming I used to answer "Because it's the only way I know of to get paid for being an experimental epistemologist."

It was a funny line to anybody who knows what an epistemologist is, it was true, and for some reason I forgot it for a long time. Now I'm doing most of my programming with LLMs, no longer writing vast volumes of code by hand and...I don't miss that part. Because I still get to be an experimental epistemologist.

That is: every program embodies a set of assertions about what kinds of knowledge and what kinds of reasoning you need to engage with to solve a particular problem.

To me, that's the interesting part - the level where you're forming theories about what kinds of knowledge and knowledge representations will support what you want to do. Then you're testing the theory by seeing whether the program fulfills its acceptance conditions.

I did not see LLMs coming. I did not foresee the part where the actual coding is rapidly dwindling because you have robots to do most of it for you, but the experimental epistemology part is still here.

And you know what? I'm completely okay with that. The part I like is the part that hasn't gone away. And probably never will, because however good your tools are, somebody is going to have to do that philosophical impedance match between what the mind desires and what the tools can express.

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@SoveyX I do that too and my three followers all like it

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

The more things change... Once upon a time in Sweden, they wanted to ban satellite dishes that would allow people to view other TV channels than the Swedish state monopoly. They fought "the right of the powerful to spread opinions and exploit our senses. A pacification of children and poorly educated will in fact result from the unlimited 'freedom' [proposed]."

[Per Gudmundson @gudmundson_per]

Apropå Magdalena Andersson och X.

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@TonyDowson5 Two tier kir

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@SamoBurja Alternative hypothesis: What matters is the comparative cost of messages. Mass media - printing and television - made one-to-many messaging cheap per message compared to one-to-one or small group conversations. The Internet reverses this.

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@esrtweet @anderssandberg Haha, in Swedish threat is 'hot' and end is 'slut'. I was trying to read the Swedish newspaper once in an Italian library but was stopped by the porn filter because of those naughty words :-D

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@megha_lilly My neighborhood in Letná, Prague comes close but I'm not sure about the mayor... @jancizinsky do you wear a tophat?

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@horia85 @Seantoir Once the Romanians have their thesaurus back, they will tell us the Russians diverted, pilfered, ransacked, misappropriated and purloined their stuff

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@horia85 @Seantoir But apparently, the English word also has the sense of treasury, storehouse. https://t.co/4RJGLuXm6I

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@ghostofchristo1 It works in a world without memory. Until recently, we lived in that world.

[Simon Andersson @jsimonandersson]

@pmddomingos What is the wrong way? General goals of PyTorch or specific implementation decisions?