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a and b, but not at the same time. hater of all slop, synthetic or biological.

[xand @xandkar]

@civ_enjoy That's long term thinking right there!

[j @meadandjuniper]

Your 20s are for realizing that all your grandiose life plans pale in comparison to having people you really like being around

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

The scarier the AI the higher the valuations.

[xand @xandkar]

@signulll "racism" is what happens when family ties are eroded and people are scrambling to find an alternative way to filter for potential alies, finding the easiest signal - visible color.

in which country does that happen most?

[François Chollet @fchollet]

A lot of the current discourse about AI comes from a fatalistic position of total surrender of agency: "tech is moving in this direction and there's nothing anyone can do about it" (suspiciously convenient for those who stand to benefit most)

But in a free society, we get to choose what kind of world we live in, independent of technological capabilities. Just because tetraethyllead made engines run more efficiently and saved money didn't mean we were *obligated* to pump it into the lungs of our kids

Technological determinism is BS. We have a collective duty to make sure AI adoption improves the human condition, rather than hollows it out

[xand @xandkar]

The scarcest resource is trust and all known signals of it are plummeting in accuracy of predicting it.

The time from measure becoming known to it becoming a target is plummeting.

[xand @xandkar]

ESR has been compromised.

[xand @xandkar]

EG's answer was basically slop.

[xand @xandkar]

People's gullibility disappoints me.

[xand @xandkar]

@civ_enjoy I'm intrigued by that last item! Where is this list?

[xand @xandkar]

Just had one of these answer a call and it couldn't be more dystopic. Fake keyboard clacking, fake ambient chatter in the background. There's just no legitimate utility in that. Only deception. If you're a robot, be a fucking robot. Deception is adversarial.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

Call centers and simple customer service tasks are done … companies like PolyAI are taking these jobs.

[notch @notch]

Reminder that using AI to write code is an incredibly bad idea still, and anyone advocating for it is either incompetent or evil.

It's just as dumb as letting AI write the laws. It's about logic, not about typing.

[xand @xandkar]

It seems to be human nature to downplay the value of what one is unlikely to deliver.

[xand @xandkar]

@DominikTornow An infinite loop of read from something and select from a set of possible next actions. So less so IO in the commonly implied sense, but more of a broad structural design pattern akin to message passing.

[xand @xandkar]

Kamil's ideas are about as original as your typical Boomer neighbor's news sources, yet he's great at crafting engaging prose that oh so many otherwise smart people are intoxicated by. The world feels lonelier than ever.

[xand @xandkar]

What's happened in the dev job market is roughly the same as in the dating market and roughly the same as in any large-enough org. Quality resists being scaled and de-risked.

[xand @xandkar]

Going pseudo anon.

[Vipul Vaibhaw @vaibhaw_vipul]

Leslie Lamport talking about the origins of Paxos, distributed consensus protocol.

FLP result: consensus impossible if one node fails in async system!

However, practical consensus is achievable with the right conditions and algorithmic approach!

[xand @xandkar]

Inject into my veins:

https://t.co/3cfzcxyqJZ

[xand @xandkar]

@sio_mrnobody @notch @JNasty_21 Anyone who says things I don't want to be true - is clearly retarded. My feelings don't give a shit about your facts.