Great article. It would seem that prompt injection attacks in the name of "anti-LLM" measures are now something to protect against too. OWASP has a pretty good page on the topic of prompt injection. I suppose we are…
LLMs can write Common Lisp just fine. I have no idea where the myth that they can't because of the all the parentheses comes from.
It is possible to agree that content creators should be paid and that ads are bad. Substack, for example, allows you to pay and doesn't have ads. Ads are one business model, not the only one.
Ironically, if we apply your first statement generally you are likely excluding yourself from the debate. "If you are not a logician your opinion on fallacies doesn't matter at all."
I agree with you. The idea that using e-prime makes one's writing more clear isn't a "fallacy". People might disagree but it's hardly fallacious. There are many items in this list that aren't fallacies (e.g.,…
For your home network DNS: a server with dnsmasq -> stubby -> DNS over TLS -> NextDNS works quite well. Fast with dnsmasq caching and reasonably secure, plus NextDNS can block unwanted domains (ads, malware, etc.)
The governor of Nevada is proposing exactly this. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov... Autonomous zones appear to be leaving the realm of science fiction and into reality.
Scalability is just one reason for using serverless. There are many others. Most of which have to do with being able to focus on the part of your code that actually does something instead of on infrastructure and…
One rarely discussed effect of drug legalization is that pharmaceutical companies would start developing recreational drugs. I expect they would create milder versions of current drugs specifically for the recreational…
Your are conflating what is practical with what is true in logic and argumentation. It is practical to accept our doctor's diagnosis because we trust that the medical system produces competent doctors and because of…
My first thought when reading the article was, how about CORBA? The author makes no attempt to explain why CORBA and SOAP/WSDL failed so their recommendation has very little merit. Software technology historically…
This is an excellent comment. Thinking about laws or policies as dynamic processes with various feedback loops and side-effects offers a better model than the usual static approach. Side-effects are critical, so…
Academia is not unique in this regard. Superficial metrics have been introduced into many fields with similar results. Warnings about the danger of metrics have been ignored. Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative…
There is a scene in The Simpsons where TV stops working and the children suddenly have to go outside and play. Great happiness ensues. That is exactly the scene I imagine if Twitter were turned off.
This reminds me of my wish to see a unified theory (and notation) that encompasses formal logic and probability. On their own, each is lacking. A unified system, for example, in which we have all the tools of first…
I agree. While this is well done, it seems to be copying human programming techniques rather than allowing the AI to create code that it thinks is optimal. I think there is the potential to evolve efficient and secure…
Instead of Test Driven Development, Test Only Development? I like that idea. This reminds me of an article I read a while ago on co-evolutionary training in genetic programming: one algorithm evolving to do something,…
Good point. I've seen this mistaken notion of science a lot recently. Scientists can describe the world and make predications about how it might behave, they don't have anything to say (as scientists) about what one…
The funny thing is that this search is pretty easy to put into first order logic (shirt(x) & ~striped(x)). I guess we now have computers that are bad at logic.
Is the Gompertz function the function behind the standard "epi curve"? It appears from the CDC web site and other places that the epi curve is the standard way epidemics are modeled. The CDC even has a simple tutorial…
"First, a bunch of generic smart people on Twitter who got things exactly right" I think it is far too early to declare anyone "exactly right". We won't know for months, maybe years; maybe we will never know because it…
A perhaps more important downside to arrogance is that hubris leads to blindness. One can be so blinded by the light of one's own brilliance that one fails to see beyond it. Intellectual humility, therefore, is the…
I don't know if AGI is possible or not but I do think this is a valid question. The AI risk people gloss over this fundamental question and proceed directly to the question of "AI safety". This is a major weakness in…
> accepting that overreacting is much more desirable I wish that were true but it is not. It is entirely possible to take actions that make a bad situation worse. The consequences of an economic shutdown, for example,…
Not ignored, I just cannot find any good data on hospitalization rates by age group nor the associated stats. These figures also do not take into account pre-existing conditions which greatly influence the CFR.
Great article. It would seem that prompt injection attacks in the name of "anti-LLM" measures are now something to protect against too. OWASP has a pretty good page on the topic of prompt injection. I suppose we are…
LLMs can write Common Lisp just fine. I have no idea where the myth that they can't because of the all the parentheses comes from.
It is possible to agree that content creators should be paid and that ads are bad. Substack, for example, allows you to pay and doesn't have ads. Ads are one business model, not the only one.
Ironically, if we apply your first statement generally you are likely excluding yourself from the debate. "If you are not a logician your opinion on fallacies doesn't matter at all."
I agree with you. The idea that using e-prime makes one's writing more clear isn't a "fallacy". People might disagree but it's hardly fallacious. There are many items in this list that aren't fallacies (e.g.,…
For your home network DNS: a server with dnsmasq -> stubby -> DNS over TLS -> NextDNS works quite well. Fast with dnsmasq caching and reasonably secure, plus NextDNS can block unwanted domains (ads, malware, etc.)
The governor of Nevada is proposing exactly this. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov... Autonomous zones appear to be leaving the realm of science fiction and into reality.
Scalability is just one reason for using serverless. There are many others. Most of which have to do with being able to focus on the part of your code that actually does something instead of on infrastructure and…
One rarely discussed effect of drug legalization is that pharmaceutical companies would start developing recreational drugs. I expect they would create milder versions of current drugs specifically for the recreational…
Your are conflating what is practical with what is true in logic and argumentation. It is practical to accept our doctor's diagnosis because we trust that the medical system produces competent doctors and because of…
My first thought when reading the article was, how about CORBA? The author makes no attempt to explain why CORBA and SOAP/WSDL failed so their recommendation has very little merit. Software technology historically…
This is an excellent comment. Thinking about laws or policies as dynamic processes with various feedback loops and side-effects offers a better model than the usual static approach. Side-effects are critical, so…
Academia is not unique in this regard. Superficial metrics have been introduced into many fields with similar results. Warnings about the danger of metrics have been ignored. Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative…
There is a scene in The Simpsons where TV stops working and the children suddenly have to go outside and play. Great happiness ensues. That is exactly the scene I imagine if Twitter were turned off.
This reminds me of my wish to see a unified theory (and notation) that encompasses formal logic and probability. On their own, each is lacking. A unified system, for example, in which we have all the tools of first…
I agree. While this is well done, it seems to be copying human programming techniques rather than allowing the AI to create code that it thinks is optimal. I think there is the potential to evolve efficient and secure…
Instead of Test Driven Development, Test Only Development? I like that idea. This reminds me of an article I read a while ago on co-evolutionary training in genetic programming: one algorithm evolving to do something,…
Good point. I've seen this mistaken notion of science a lot recently. Scientists can describe the world and make predications about how it might behave, they don't have anything to say (as scientists) about what one…
The funny thing is that this search is pretty easy to put into first order logic (shirt(x) & ~striped(x)). I guess we now have computers that are bad at logic.
Is the Gompertz function the function behind the standard "epi curve"? It appears from the CDC web site and other places that the epi curve is the standard way epidemics are modeled. The CDC even has a simple tutorial…
"First, a bunch of generic smart people on Twitter who got things exactly right" I think it is far too early to declare anyone "exactly right". We won't know for months, maybe years; maybe we will never know because it…
A perhaps more important downside to arrogance is that hubris leads to blindness. One can be so blinded by the light of one's own brilliance that one fails to see beyond it. Intellectual humility, therefore, is the…
I don't know if AGI is possible or not but I do think this is a valid question. The AI risk people gloss over this fundamental question and proceed directly to the question of "AI safety". This is a major weakness in…
> accepting that overreacting is much more desirable I wish that were true but it is not. It is entirely possible to take actions that make a bad situation worse. The consequences of an economic shutdown, for example,…
Not ignored, I just cannot find any good data on hospitalization rates by age group nor the associated stats. These figures also do not take into account pre-existing conditions which greatly influence the CFR.