Richardson remembers that whenever Ceccanti would emerge from the basement for some air, he would start having “philosophical” talks about “how his work with the AI was telling him he was breaking math and basically reinventing physics”. As she’d listen to him, Richardson would think about the fact that Ceccanti did not have any college or university experience. He had never even taken calculus.

Tangent, but I think this is another facet of why education is important: so people know what they don’t know. I think it’s harder to think you’re reinventing physics when you’ve taken some classes and seen all the work people have already done.

On the other hand, delusions can just be whatever so education isn’t a panacea.

Conservatives are stupid, basically. Given a set of facts they will draw back conclusions

You all are real speedy on these. Took me 20 (albeit I was at work so there were interruptions)

You can also buy drm free music from sites like Bandcamp. I don’t feel bad buying from smaller groups. Joyride! might actually notice the $10 from me buying their new album.

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They really think we’re stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

Kind of an anti-intellectual meme, honestly. After like 9th grade reading level, one can learn that it’s not about finding the meaning in the text. It’s about finding a meaning and supporting it.

It doesn’t really matter that much what the author meant. What matters what’s actually in the text.

Every conservative accusation is a confession.

Public servants shouldn’t be allowed to own stock, except maybe through some sort of arm’s length diversified portfolio managed by a third party. Like, you can put money in Vanguard’s index funds, but you can’t pick individual stocks. Maybe. I would also accept that you just aren’t allowed to own stock. Put your money in government bonds or something.

Not surprised it’s a Republican.

The point of school is to learn stuff. Facts and methods. Teachers aren’t typically asking you to solve math problems or summarize a story because they need the answers.

This seems to be a common pattern. Conservatives recognize a problem (eg: housing is expensive) and then come to some pants on head wrong conclusion (it’s the {outgroups})

And yet so many people who would be replaced if this AI stuff worked seem so eager to embrace it.

One of the core pieces of capitalism - “You do the work and I keep the profits” - is undesirable. I would say it’s even unjust. Children would recognize it as a problem.

I’m so tired of hearing about AI at work. They don’t have the fundamentals of software development down - no tests. no linters. no automatic deployment. Dependency management is a joke. Code reviews are a rubber stamp. They only this quarter stopped people from SSH’ing onto the prod machine and making live, not in source control, changes. But they want everyone to start leveraging AI. Spending untold piles of time and money on it.

It would be far cheaper and more cost-effective to spend like, a week, on software development fundamentals.

Meanwhile, I’ve stubbornly forced my way through various processes and red tape to get a bare minimum of checks that run automatically on PR. This week it found someone had pushed a script with a fatal syntax error, gotten it reviewed, approved, and merged. My check goes live and flags this before it’s in prod. No one cares. Management still just wants to talk about AI.

It’s like that thing where if a meeting has women talking for 20% of the time some men freak out about how it’s all women all the time.

They’re emotionally keyed up so it feels like a bigger deal, and they’re emotionally keyed up so they’re not going to rationally assess this. That’d assuming they’re acting in good faith to begin with, which is not a given.

Many people don’t read anymore. A surprising amount of people can’t read. It’s not good.

I’m contributing by getting ebooks from the library and reading them on my phone.

One could write a paper about how profit motive and art are at odds, and as the portion of agents seeking profit goes up the quality of the art goes down. Probably many people have written quite a bit about that.

I think it’s also worse when the people keeping the profits are removed from making the art. Someone who sets out to make a game and make some money on it will probably make better art than a pack of accountants and shareholders calling the shots.

Aardwolf is still up and pretty good. Has a special client with some QoL features like mapping.

It’s not as good as Project Bob, but sadly that one shut down years ago.

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

The through line in this kind of thing is always people being selfish and reasoning poorly.

It’s like when someone says “I need to own a car! What if I need to move furniture??” It’s just emotional sludge that doesn’t stand up to reason with fair axioms.