@[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.
Don't get me wrong, I think I know how reality works
It's not gonna change within a year or maybe 50..
But at some point people have to start and fight back
If we keep repeating "It's just how it is" shit will NEVER change
I refuse to accept shit as is, otherwise what's the point of everything
@[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)
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You where all thinking it. And the answer is 'yes!'. Yes you can totally LASER engrave a banana to exfiltrate data from your secured premises. Just out of the machine the text is barely noticable. But the next morning? Clear as day.
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@[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...
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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...)
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...)
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@[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.
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vegan chilli day
@[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...
why is Gulliver of Travels fame depicted as Smokin' Hot Seattle Jesus?!
(I suspect it's AI-generated. Did someone who didn't know what Gulliver's Travels is about just paste his name into a prompt and go with it?)
@[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.
omg you guys what if the cp command is sentient
what if i copy too much data and then it decides to copy me what do we do then
@[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.
Great news everyone thanks to my significant advances in modern algorithmic analysis I am personally able to outperform a warehouse full of specialized GPUs by five orders of magnitude with a single ARM core for one one-millionth the cost in 0.1% of the time by training the "cp(1)" command on only the GCC source and then compiling the output of that program with GCC.
The resulting compiler - which I'm calling "mhoyecc", or as I've taken to calling it, mhoye plus cc, passes 100% of GCC's tests.
> 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...
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@[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.
My instincts are against leaky abstractions. You can't forget JS when using Elm, and you have to worry about the bridge. Why not just take the excellent MVU architecture and implement it in TS? Also I have a personal taste for curly brackets. Irrational I know.
@[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.
@mavnn @pluralistic yes, the forms, forms, forms is absolutely out of control
no debate there
@[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)
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not to waste your time in things I can look up, but what could people do efficiently in other countries that they couldn't do in the US?
Full disclosure: My wife is Japanese and had a green card in the US before we moved to Japan
We didn't follow through to her becoming a citizen, but what we did to deal with her green card involved a total of 1 meeting and a couple of forms
I have seen how others around us who weren't coming from a first world country to marry an American were being treated - I'm not trying to defend that
I'm challenging the statement that it is worse than applying in other countries
Honestly, I skimmed the main article and found it full of emotions and low on facts and nothing at all like what my wife went through
But I WILL admit that US govt processes are a mare's nest. Often times, ironically, in an effort to be fair.
Also, ironically - this complaint against American bureaucracy is one of MAGA's biggest compliants
@[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.
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Having worked on a large website with an Elm front-end, I probably wouldn't use myself if faced with a similar task, but I'm a big fan of the model, view, update architecture.
@[email protected] Spicy take! Now I'm curious: why would you choose both MVU and not to use Elm?
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@BigJackBrass They do this for books, too. 😬
@[email protected] @[email protected] "I've now finished this book and no longer need it, so I've sent it back."
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@codebyjeff Yes. I also was naturalized as a Briton, and my father was naturalized as a Canadian. The American system is incredibly bad, by international standards.
@[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.
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