Pierre Thierry

My two commandments: love and truth (because Jesus). He/him. Finds peace in Functional Programming. Haskell Engineer at Tontine Trust. 🖖

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@ChShersh Wait, the US is actively working on making the lives of most of its citizens worse right now… (and they were quite low on many indicators way before the current administration)

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@CooperZurad @StephenFleming We definitely do change things in the design. We change things in bridges and roads sometimes. It's just that in many cases, it's prohibitively hard to do a change in a physical object or infrastructure, even when it would be better. Software is more modifiable.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@infomaniak avez-vous envisagé de publier vos applications client sous licence libre ? Il ne me semble pas que leur valeur ajoutée est dans le secret du code client, mais dans l'offre de votre plateforme…

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@davepl1968 @danoconnl Hate the cheaters that rig the game, not the game.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@davepl1968 Except they are taking from all of us, that's the clear conclusion of many economists: billionaires are hoarding the world's wealth more and more. And Musk specifically actively participated in cutting the use of public funds to help everyone while pushing for subsidies for him.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@msimoni There was the same fantasy: I'll quickly draw onscreen the flowerpot I want and boom, in minutes, printed! Then you see an expert maker create a good flower pot on his 7th attempt after hours of work (not counting printing time).

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@ifindmidwits @RockChartrand That's quite the strawman you obliterated there!

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@FightWithMemes Now imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince this is actually what happens.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@Lenny_ynn @Maitre_Eolas C'est justement parce qu'une personne innocente peut voir sa situation empirer si elle parle à la police qu'il faut garder le silence. J'imagine que des policiers se racontent que c'est un aveu de culpabilité mais c'est parfaitement stupide.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@SIRHAMY Haskell has issues in evolution too, but his concept of language extensions has made it far more nimble than most non-Lisp languages.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@TheBigGuy49 @MikeLevin @barnes_law Dude, he keeps getting losses in court, even with judges he appointed, then calls all judges unfair. This isn't conspiracy talk. And he the DOJ is under his control, so there won't be an investigation until the next president…

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@Ngnghm For the first time this week, I had to move my setup from a NixOS laptop to another one. I just copied configuration.nix, made a few tweaks, and found everything working as before. Such a delight.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@robinhanson @speakerjohnash I wasn't very precise. Shareholder primacy today is applied as the mandate to optimize for short or midterm shareholder value. The latter has long been criticized for creating all kinds of bad incentives with damaging consequences, do you disagree with that criticism?

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@robinhanson @speakerjohnash Shareholder primacy is probably so bad for society as a whole that it's indirectly bad for the shareholders themselves. It's not really helping anyone.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@productaizery @antirez Maybe it's technically true that they are, but they still contribute to original scientific and mathematical research. Calling them statistical parrots is misleading. But we should convey that they lack the full range of reasoning and don't have a world model or memory.

[Max Marchione @maxmarchione]

In some very real sense, Ozempic was invented in 1990. Pfizer ran the human trials and just never published them.

They showed it lowered blood glucose in diabetics, slowed gastric emptying, and killed hunger; the same 3 things that make Ozempic work today.

The joint venture agreement said internal data stayed internal, and that was that. Pfizer killed the program in 1991. The reasoning, as far as I can tell, was that nobody would ever want an injectable diabetes drug besides insulin.

So, the license went back to the hospital in Boston that held the patents.

Novo picked it up in 1992 and spent the next two decades building liraglutide, then semaglutide.

It's insane that data sat in a filing cabinet for 30+ years.

I only know this because Jeffrey Flier, one of the Harvard scientists in the room, finally wrote it up. He's in his late 70s and didn't want the history to die with him.

This makes you wonder what else is in those filing cabinets.

Ozempic could've existed 27 years ago.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@lisyarus Is it showing that they don't care? Do they know it's a viable option?

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@psyetcaetera @SectesTroll La culpabilité est généralement une émotion paralysante, qui crée de la dissonance cognitive. Je serais extrêmement surpris qu'elle soit une bonne base.

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

They pretend there aren't regular outages, they say AI replaced humans when evidence points otherwise.

Yes, definitely still overhyped.

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

just reviewed our numbers. we spend $2,400/month on AI tools. they replace roughly $47K/month in human labor costs.

that's a 19x return.

and the AI doesn't call in sick, doesn't need a 1-on-1, and doesn't have a 'creative block.'

still think AI is overhyped?

[Pierre Thierry @kephasp]

@LundukeJournal Why address these issues with strawman arguments? Being respectful of multiple personalities doesn't mean going along with fictions but with how personalities express themselves, that's all. Your presentation is as absurd as the "I identify as an attack helicopter" bullshit.