nico λ
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just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
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People who are miserable are ugly and unapproachable and have a “victim mindset” because they can’t accept that it is all their own fault, and therefore they are bad. People who are happy must be strong and living virtuous lives full of beauty and tradition. People who are not must therefore be weak and moral failures. This framework of logic makes... See more
you people can't do anything
A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. [...] No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t... See more
Arend van Beelen jr. • Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil
The assumption that superintelligences can somehow simulate reality to arbitrary degrees of precision runs counter to what we know about thermodynamics, computational irreducibility, and information theory.
A lot of the narratives seem to assume that a superintelligence will somehow free itself from constraints like „cost of compute“, „cost of... See more
A lot of the narratives seem to assume that a superintelligence will somehow free itself from constraints like „cost of compute“, „cost of... See more
halvar.flake • Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)
Just as I have never met anyone who chose to become addicted, neither have I met anyone whose addictions did not, at their onset at least, provide for some essential human need.
Gabor Mate • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
- This is gonna be game-changing for the next 2-4 weeks before they nerf the model.
Then for the next 2-3 months people complaining about the degradation will be labeled “skill issue”.
Then a sacrificial Anthropic engineer will “discover” a couple obscure bugs that “in some cases” might have lead to less than optimal performance. Still largely a user
HackerWeb
Generation labels are effectively like astrology or MBTI for people who think they’re smarter than that. It turns out that across history, the one commonality that brings people of all ages together is hating young people and their behaviour while ignoring the intertwining social, economic and historical contexts that made them that way - contexts... See more
you people can't do anything
Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Taking the Leap
nowhere.” It is the conviction that in order to describe the world accurately and empirically, we must put aside res cogitans—the subjective, immediate way in which we experience the world in our minds—and limit ourselves to res extensa, the objective, mathematical language of physical facts. Without these distinctions, it’s difficult to imagine
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine_ Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning - Meghan O'Gieblyn
But for me, for now, the friction is what I’m looking for. I am grateful — genuinely — for what Google and Apple and others did to make digital life easy over the past two decades. But too much ease carries a cost. I was lulled into the belief that I didn’t have to make decisions. Now my digital life is a series of monuments to the cost of... See more