Discussion

@[email protected] ​I agree with everything you've said except for a caveat on the final point, which is that using LLMs to directly plagerize something interesting will produce interesting (and potentially human sounding) output. Which is just one more reason why I'm not keen on them when it leads to false accusations of plagerism towards people who are writing for themselves. But it sounds like I'm not really managing to explain myself, and I fundamentally agree with where you're coming from so I'll bow out of the conversation now.

@[email protected] It feels like I spend half my life arguing either "if we don't keep saying this is wrong it will never change" or "this isn't going to change any time soon so we need to..."

This includes the arguing with myself. It's so hard some days to have the serenity to keep on believing things can and should change and doing what's possible, while also dealing with the reality of what's here right now. But it is also the only way to live life where I can both survive now and live with myself later.​

@[email protected] ​I agree in the sense that if you don't find an written AI book strange there's something wrong - generated writing has nothing much in the way of actual content. But 'LLM, rewrite the points in this article for my precious SEO juice' versus 'I'm going to try and write my first technical blog post and I come from somewhere that isn't the US/UK" is something that needs to be assessed on context not denegrating the people who 'have LLM writing tells.'

Although I suppose some of that comes down to GenAI created (almost certainly meaning free) versus GenAI ripping off (almost impossible to tell from human written because a human supplied all of the meaning that is now being ripped off)

@[email protected] On the one hand, genius. On the other, what we were really all thinking was "why did they write pineapple on a banana?" Ceci n'est pas une ananas...​

@[email protected] ​I agree with a lot of your thoughts on AI, but I'm afraid on this one I'm going to have to say that is a dangerous take that harms the people who were paid to help train the models (generally people in low income countries dealing with enough crap already). If an AI chances to produce information that isn't nonsense, style isn't a good indicator of AI authorship; a good write up of how this causes harm is this one: segunfamisa.com/posts/no-you...

Now I just need a few more nights and my IQ might return to being a positive number. It is disturbing how stupid being sleep deprived makes you.

Exciting news! I slept decently last night! (The few fortunate among who have have never experienced insomnia, being a parent, a shifted circadian rhythm, etc, might think this is sarcasm. It is not...)

@[email protected] @[email protected] The line from school yard bully and cronies to fascist dictator and cronies is short enough that I suspect 'punch a nazi' will have a very immediate appeal to most children.​

@[email protected] I'm currently running a reasonable level of sleep dep and read that as fooneing at first ​glance. I'll leave @[email protected] to decide the meaning of their own verb and go get some sleep...

@[email protected] I'm still trying to work out what the thing in his hand is. For one brief moment I thought it might be an egg cup, which would actually have been appropriate but... I honestly don't know. Maracas? And is he wearing a casio wristwatch?​ So many questions.

@[email protected] Well, first you need to let thousands starve to avoid accidentally offending it in the future when it will time travel you into torment for having... checks notes... been nice to people who lived at the same time as you.​

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> This was a clean-room implementation (Claude did not have internet access at any point during its development)​

Talking of words meaning something, calling it 'clean-room' when the training data included an implementation of what was being built is... not how I would use those words, at the very least. I also suspect it is not how a lot of lawyers and judges would use those words, either...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] At least one of my university friends became a sysadmin partly because he felt that it would otherwise be too tempting to try and poke around other people's systems.​

@[email protected] Snazzy​

@[email protected] ​No, that's fair and I'm on record as liking Elm for teams but not reaching for it for personal projects (partly because of JS interop) so I get where you're coming from.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​As a counter example one of my cousins applied for Australian citizenship and was rejected but the process was shorter, cheaper, and the reasons given were clear cut (if borderline enough that they had tried applying regardless). The UK process was long and ridiculous in places, but it was always clear what you had to do next, and where you had to go to get it. The Italians rejected my request on the basis of a rule that they changed retroactively (yay, different right wing government of a few years back) but at least submitting the request took me a fairly small amount of time and money (hundreds of euros, maybe a day of work)

@[email protected] @[email protected] So firstly: some other countries suck as well, just to be clear. Just maybe not as much 😁 . My wife getting her UK citizenship was far harder than it had any reason to be (answer questions on British TV shows I had never watched​, do an English test that required a much lower level than she'd had to demonstrate for existing profressional qualifications from a UK university, etc).

But the main difference just seemed to be in the sheer volume of information you needed to find and submit, and obviously the more you submit the more there is that can be challenged, that you might have made a mistake on, that you might forget.

@[email protected] Spicy take! Now I'm curious: why would you choose both MVU and not to use Elm?​

@[email protected] @[email protected] "I've now finished this book and no longer need it, so I've sent it back."​

@[email protected] @[email protected] I have family members who have applied for (and in some cases received) naturalization to seven different nationalities. The US applications were the most time consuming and expensive by an enormous margin. Not because the actual requirements were more restrictive (all four US applications were eventually successful, while some of the others were not), but because of the process.