Carl-Erik Kopseng

ENTP ➡️ Devil's advocate.

Tries to avoid getting trolled into polarising discussions, often failing, thus gradually turning into a middle-aged caricature.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@beckysblank Sorry about that. It's stuff like this that reminds me that Twitter is a lousy medium for discussion that strives to provoke thoughtful debate ☹️ Everything and everyone ends up getting condensed into a oneliner. Oh, well. At least it's a good source of reading material.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, you’re not sending “more money to Ukraine,” and you never have.

You used to send American money to American arms manufacturers so that American workers and engineers could have more contracts, jobs, salaries, and tax revenue while producing American weapons in America for Ukraine or replacing old equipment from U.S. stockpiles.

That allowed the Ukrainian military to keep saving their country, while your top-tier geopolitical enemy, a KGB dictatorship obsessed with hatred toward you, could be defeated in its war of aggression in Europe and critically weakened for decades to come -- without a single American soldier firing a single shot.

But then you decided to start pretending that night is day.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@trippfunderburk @owenwicks268488 @JunkScience NEVER respond to people with 4+ digits in the username. It's just bot farms.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@Einzelkampfer2 @JunkScience Because it's dumb, illiterate and just wrong?

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@MikeChillit @JunkScience We have all the data you could ever ask for. The problem is that you do not ask. You assume. Try to invalidate your own assumptions and see if they hold. That's science.

I have yet to see anyone question IF we have global warming. That is a definitive truth.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@JunkScience Junk science from you, indeed. People should know you made your fame and fortune working for the Heartland Institute stating cigarettes didn't cause cancer or heart disease.

Wrt to your Paint skills: you just emphasised the trend line

https://t.co/a1tJeT7bHH

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The stock market is down today but people claim GDP is rising over time. Explain that economy hoaxers! 🙄

It is a bit hilarious that his hand-drawn red line accidentally highlights the linear trend that was on the original figure.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@dose_of_Close @hausfath You are a bit dense if you haven't gotten the memo by now. Everyone knows that temperature changes. It always has. We have had mucher warmer and cooler climates. But the RATE OF CHANGE we are seeing is unprecedented.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@Yusuf68ez @Liberfach0 @nff_landslag He's ethnically 50% Norwegian DNA. And he's from Norway, so no. Not African, but rich in melanin 😄

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@GKMasterson @GovPressOffice @FBI Damn you stupid. Even a non-native speaker can tell from the context that this is a humorous joke directed at the White House. Literacy is more than telling letters apart.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

This. Is the essence of AI. Getting from 0-95% in 5 hours, but not nearing 100% after two days due to the crap luring in the shadows. Dopamine rush might be the biggest factor in AI use, not actual productiveness.

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

Just saving this here to document a story and as a self reflection on whether AI is really making me more productive

Yesterday morning I found a way to complete the new HVM approach, that is much faster than before. I spent a few hours writing a spec, and then used Opus to implement. About 3k lines of C code later, everything worked and performance was incredible: 5x faster than HVM4 (stable at ~10x now). So, in one day I had outclassed HVM4. Incredible. I'd never have implemented that so fast manually.

Now, enter today. I want to turn this into a real thing, but I haven't fully read the 3k lines yet. So, how do I trust it? I spent the whole day auditing the code. With AI. Several bugs found, most minor like forgetting to collect() some argument. But then I stumble upon this:

λ{ inl: 1 ; inr: 1 }

This was a test. But wait. This is matching on inl/inr. So the branches should receive the value of the Either. But they were numbers instead. Numbers aren't functions. This makes no sense. So why this is a test?

It then stuck me. The AI completely misunderstood how function arities work. It literally assumed for no good reason that HVM5 was supposed to handle under/over-applied functions. For no good reason. I never wrote that. It never asked either. It just kinda thought "HVM is weird in some aspects, this might be one of them..." - and then it went on to implement a massive system to handle cases that should never happen to begin with. And all of that code is obviously wrong because it should not even exist. It is wrong. It is damage. And it is there.

But it isn't too bad either. I just told Opus that it was wrong. Perhaps not so politely. And it solved it just fine.

But then this begs the question. I spent ~20 hours in this file, and it is STILL not done. I went from 0 to 95% in the first 5 hours. Yet, 15 hours later, it is still not 100%. I suppose that is the real effect of using AI. If I had just written the C file manually in the last two days, would I not be further than where I am *right now*?

Surely, the first version would have taken much longer to drop. But when I'd finish writing all that code, there would be zero, literally zero retarded shit. And, just today, I caught 5 or 6 retarded shit. And the worst part is: I don't know what the number of retarded shit left is, but I'm afraid it is >0.

So if I have to read it all, review it all to ensure there is no retarded shit... what did I achieve by using AI, other than that dopamine anticipation?

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@drsmitshahi @Kacchaaloo @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi @NorwayMFA @IndiainNorway If you are referring to Mette Marit, the crown princess, not the 80-something-year old Queen, then she has been questioned by the press multiple times. We do not fear authorities like your own press that does whatever Hindu nationalists say they should due to fear.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@BalajiLibran @amarDgreat @HelleLyngSvends Deep State ... how far up your own ass do you need to be to believe this? Why is the Indian national pride more important than actual democracy and press freedom? Your own journalists are beaten and killed by Hindu nationalists for criticising the current status quo.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@MGonni @BalajiLibran @amarDgreat @HelleLyngSvends Jeebus, you are a living parody. You care more about your national pride than improving. Spout ut nonsense like "Don't care about facts", while at the same time reproducing drivel with no credible sources. You are a Russian troll factory's prime audience.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@onuralpszr @sluongng How would that help in any way?

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@ShawshankOne @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi We are. This is why you do not have freedom of press.
https://t.co/jLU5D6fV7Y

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@kuldeep90 @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi God, are you always this lazy? There is no mockery of Modi here! He is being called clever for charming allies all over the place. Just read it yourself.
https://t.co/QjKYyNRdPn

[Norseman 🇳🇴 @e1r1k11]

@iamamitvasu @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi Here. Read what he's actually writing. Your email makes no sense if you read the entire piece. I have a subscription to Aftenposten, and I got it translated for you

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@souvikbasu1 @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi @RahulGandhi There's literally no criticism of Modi in the article. You are just reacting to a third party's (poor) interpretation. Read it yourself
https://t.co/QjKYyNRdPn

[Norseman 🇳🇴 @e1r1k11]

@iamamitvasu @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi Here. Read what he's actually writing. Your email makes no sense if you read the entire piece. I have a subscription to Aftenposten, and I got it translated for you

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@ChitDubey @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi That newspaper praises Modi, but you just react to some third party's interpretation. Here's the article in English
https://t.co/QjKYyNRdPn

[Norseman 🇳🇴 @e1r1k11]

@iamamitvasu @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi Here. Read what he's actually writing. Your email makes no sense if you read the entire piece. I have a subscription to Aftenposten, and I got it translated for you

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@ChitDubey @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi We already did. See, your arguments never hold up, because you are too lazy to research your own presumptions.

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@ShubhraSingh02 @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi You lazy shill. Try to make an effort at least in knowing what you are reacting to. Here's a translation
https://t.co/QjKYyNRdPn

[Norseman 🇳🇴 @e1r1k11]

@iamamitvasu @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi Here. Read what he's actually writing. Your email makes no sense if you read the entire piece. I have a subscription to Aftenposten, and I got it translated for you

[Carl-Erik Kopseng @kopseng]

@murlikrish585 @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi @Aftenposten Maybe they were tired of illiterates, as this comment section clearly displays? No one has read the article, which has nothing to do with the boring reactions.
https://t.co/QjKYyNRdPn

[Norseman 🇳🇴 @e1r1k11]

@iamamitvasu @AdityaRajKaul @narendramodi Here. Read what he's actually writing. Your email makes no sense if you read the entire piece. I have a subscription to Aftenposten, and I got it translated for you