- I don’t thinking applies at all.
When you practice your instrument you get better att doing the exact same things the sloppy player is doing, but you do it in time and in tune.
When you get faster at building software by (ostensibly) focusing on quality you do not do the same thing as someone that focuses on quick results.
- How would that work? AI cannot run if society collapses.
Maintaining all that infrastructure and supplying spare parts is not going to work.
Also AI cannot do anything on its own. Barely anything with support from humans.
- Fwiw and since you received several comments about it, your first comment did not come off to everyone as making excuses. It was pretty clear you were trying to turn peoples attention to the real problem.
There was also no fatalistic tone about the system being too powerful to change. Just clear sharing of observations IMO.
It is not unusual to receive this reaction (being blamed for fatalism and making excuses) from observations like these, I have noticed.
- System 7 had built in tools to read and write DOS disks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_Exchange
- 50 is not even close.
Those banners often list up to 3000 ”partners”.
- The government can bail Bitcoin owners out by buying a lot of Bitcoin and holding it, or even burning the wallets.
- Fun and easy to reskin as well!
- Depends on what the datacenters are used for.
AI has no utility.
Almonds make marzipan.
- The resource is compute, flops, instructions, cpu seconds, bogomips. And RAM.
The application is ”business logic”.
The engine is JS. The more efficient JS engines get the more compute and memory JS will use to deliver business logic in the universe.
- Oh it’s not an excuse for anything. It is just an observation about our economic system.
- > It's amazing how far we've regressed in efficency.
I don’t think we have. This is always what efficiency leads to, higher resource consumption. The phenomenon was described already in the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
JS and the web has seen performance improvements. They lead to more ads being served and more code being released faster to users.
- > It is an old language, and there are a few features that could probably be left out like the OOP-related features, and some libraries in the ecosystem over-complicate things like in Haskell.
If one can stand a language that is just a little bit older, there is always Standard ML. It is like OCaml, but perfect!
- Should go directly to htmx 4.1, so we can finally have xhtmx 1.0
- Depends if it’s possible.
- True.
But this year is also the year all European companies and governments learned the hard way they need to ditch US providers, and actually started working on it.
Blackmail from your provider is not great for business relations. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
- An election needs to be trusted by everyone, and explainable to all voters. It does not help that you believe it is safe. You have to trust the compiler, and the chips, and everything, and convince all voters it works.
Paper ballots are fine. It is not complicated at all and an election is the one thing you just cannot get wrong in a representative democracy. It can cost a bit and you only do it once every few years.
- How do you know? How can their citizens know?
They don’t have stellar democracy grades from The Economist’s index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index and both seem worse off in the last ten years than the ten years before.
- Sure but everything is semantics.
LLMs have no internal secret model, they are the model. And the model is of how different lexemes relate to each other in the source material the model was built from.
Some might choose to call that the world.
If you believe your internal model of the world is no different from a statistical model of the words you have seen, then by all means do that. But I believe a lot of humans see their view of the world differently.
I very much believe my cat’s model of the world has barely anything at all to do with language.
This path to AGI through LLM is nothing but religious dogma some Silicon Valley rich types believe.
- React and Vue does not solve anything users expect.
Read Weapons of Math Destruction.