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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, no, not even boilerplate can be done incorrectly sometimes. Software that ingests words and outputs words can’t check, say, official forms for correctness. Or test reports. You need a different type of reasoning for that.

  And then, even if we assume that AI can do these tasks correctly, boilerplate isn’t being just offloaded, it’s being created. Sure, we’ve had bullshit generators before. But now our bullshit machines are faster, and spew out more believable bullshit. Google has been ruined by generated slop. That’s work that wasn’t performed before, doesn’t improve our lives and yet is being done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a dumb comparison. Calculators are just tools to do the same mechanical action as abaci, which were also just tools to speed up human mechanical actions of calculation.

  Writing, drawing, research are creative, not mechanical, and offloading them to a tool is very different from offloading calculations to integrated circuits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which side are you on?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (1)(3)(5)

  Fight me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is Statistics⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Math is a language and as such it’s less pure than sociology. The universe knows no numbers, it knows no addition not division.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why you should:

  1. Preallocate the vector if you can guesstimate the size
  2. Use a vector library that won’t reallocate the entire vector on every single addition (like Rust, whose Vec doubles in size every time it runs out of space)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨time⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a reference to Bergson v Einstein?

  If it is, why am I aware of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I wanted to dismiss your worry and just call her dumb, but you may be right. I’m still not entirely sold on that, I think she can just be out of her depth, but what you’re saying would make for a very nice pivot to political grifting. What makes me skeptical of that is her old trans video, about sport. Though, now that I think about it, it used the exact same “both sides” and “insufficient data” arguments the new video abused.

  I actually also wanted to link a video about free will and a livestream react but I couldn’t find a good one. Was that the one that made you quit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak to Sabine’s physics content but her social science oriented content is awful:

  The capitalism video: short response, long react

  The trans video: short response, long react

  The neurodivergence video: very long response

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