It's basically a convention. The alternative is to raise interrupts of course, but that might be application specific, or use other invalid instructions than the designated one, but they might work differently on other…
Philosophy yes, but Dennett's design vs intentional stance is a more appropriate tool here. Design stance is, LLM is a next word predictor. Intentional stance is, LLM can reason, according to what rules?
Graeber actually points out that centrally-planned economies had formally higher work hours than was the reality (people slacked off more), and that it was akin to workers collectively making a choice working less for…
I originally read the headline as "Silicon Valley Is Transforming Military-Industrial Complex".
Is Microsoft still trying to embrace, extend, extinguish Netscape after all those years? :-)
No, the term itself is not stigmatizing. People stigmatize legitimate psychiatric diagnoses, and you're perpetuating this idea in your comment, by blaming the term for the moral failure. These labels don't exists to…
I was bound to agree with you before I RTFA. The classification is useful for a psychiatrist, i.e. someone who wants to help the person. "Bad coworker" can have many causes. In prolific AI psychosis, I think the…
> Maybe you can upgrade digital systems until they are 'fully fortified' in theory, but humans have an upper limit what they can understand / perceive / critically analyse (not to even speak about engineered high…
Not to mention, the idea that Germany, 3rd or 4th largest economy on Earth, cannot defend itself on its own and needs American troops "to defend itself" is just ridiculous. The Americans are there as a front of US…
It's not clear if it is foolish. The situation will probably be like with airline pilots. The plane is mostly an automated system, but we simply don't let automation to work through exceptional situations, without human…
The "next-token predictor" is taking a design stance (see Dennett). But to take the intentional stance is more interesting in case of large language/reasoning models.
No, it's not a problem. The suppliers cannot keep increasing the prices to match UBI, because they will face increased competition from people who now have other options (more freedom) thanks to UBI. For example, let's…
The US GDP per capita is 94k a year. The average salary is 69k a year; this is a proxy for a price of labor. So you can easily have 20k UBI for everyone in the US, the country is rich enough.
No, you cannot say the same about computers, because the technology is almost never the problem. The problem is cultural. The deregulation since the 70s created oligarchs and encouraged lack of moral scruples. See also…
Of course you can! It's called boycott. The workers who strike in a factory don't do that because they think the thing being produced is being socially useless. They do it because they demand social change.
You should ask the billionaires about "dignity of work", they are the welfare queens. And also about "independence" on the people who work for them. What you're saying is just classist prejudice.
I don't understand what you're saying. I agree that food insecurity could be fixed; it's a redistribution problem. UBI is a way to fix it. But I don't see how we are forcing people to be low class with UBI (as opposed…
"I don't think everyone except the extremely wealthy being on basic income is ideal or better than what we have now" Seriously? One sixth of the U.S. population is food-insecure. You don't think that basic income would…
Yeah. But, unlike China, the West doesn't seem to want to invest very much into real-world engineering. Except maybe military for forever wars, which is ethically way worse. This is a side effect of capital…
I was about to say, it's not just IT industry, it's capitalism leading to this.
Yes, you can express everything using lambda calculus. Kinda.. so why not use a thing that already exists? Why invent a new language (encapsulation) when previous (binding) suffices?
That relates to another misunderstanding. These ideas like "everything is a function" or "everything is a category" are not there to help you understand complex system better. They are supposed to help you build better…
Well, I just wrote a comment that could be considered an "OOP hate". I was debating whether to do it. The point is not to be snug about it. Functional programming (and monads) are actually simpler. You just need to…
Well, what I don't understand is the SW engineering propensity towards cargo culting and doing things the harder way than mathematicians do. I see it with OOP, XML, design patterns, and other things, now with LLMs.…
What are your arguments for a ban? Why do you expect someone to listen if you didn't provide a justification?
It's basically a convention. The alternative is to raise interrupts of course, but that might be application specific, or use other invalid instructions than the designated one, but they might work differently on other…
Philosophy yes, but Dennett's design vs intentional stance is a more appropriate tool here. Design stance is, LLM is a next word predictor. Intentional stance is, LLM can reason, according to what rules?
Graeber actually points out that centrally-planned economies had formally higher work hours than was the reality (people slacked off more), and that it was akin to workers collectively making a choice working less for…
I originally read the headline as "Silicon Valley Is Transforming Military-Industrial Complex".
Is Microsoft still trying to embrace, extend, extinguish Netscape after all those years? :-)
No, the term itself is not stigmatizing. People stigmatize legitimate psychiatric diagnoses, and you're perpetuating this idea in your comment, by blaming the term for the moral failure. These labels don't exists to…
I was bound to agree with you before I RTFA. The classification is useful for a psychiatrist, i.e. someone who wants to help the person. "Bad coworker" can have many causes. In prolific AI psychosis, I think the…
> Maybe you can upgrade digital systems until they are 'fully fortified' in theory, but humans have an upper limit what they can understand / perceive / critically analyse (not to even speak about engineered high…
Not to mention, the idea that Germany, 3rd or 4th largest economy on Earth, cannot defend itself on its own and needs American troops "to defend itself" is just ridiculous. The Americans are there as a front of US…
It's not clear if it is foolish. The situation will probably be like with airline pilots. The plane is mostly an automated system, but we simply don't let automation to work through exceptional situations, without human…
The "next-token predictor" is taking a design stance (see Dennett). But to take the intentional stance is more interesting in case of large language/reasoning models.
No, it's not a problem. The suppliers cannot keep increasing the prices to match UBI, because they will face increased competition from people who now have other options (more freedom) thanks to UBI. For example, let's…
The US GDP per capita is 94k a year. The average salary is 69k a year; this is a proxy for a price of labor. So you can easily have 20k UBI for everyone in the US, the country is rich enough.
No, you cannot say the same about computers, because the technology is almost never the problem. The problem is cultural. The deregulation since the 70s created oligarchs and encouraged lack of moral scruples. See also…
Of course you can! It's called boycott. The workers who strike in a factory don't do that because they think the thing being produced is being socially useless. They do it because they demand social change.
You should ask the billionaires about "dignity of work", they are the welfare queens. And also about "independence" on the people who work for them. What you're saying is just classist prejudice.
I don't understand what you're saying. I agree that food insecurity could be fixed; it's a redistribution problem. UBI is a way to fix it. But I don't see how we are forcing people to be low class with UBI (as opposed…
"I don't think everyone except the extremely wealthy being on basic income is ideal or better than what we have now" Seriously? One sixth of the U.S. population is food-insecure. You don't think that basic income would…
Yeah. But, unlike China, the West doesn't seem to want to invest very much into real-world engineering. Except maybe military for forever wars, which is ethically way worse. This is a side effect of capital…
I was about to say, it's not just IT industry, it's capitalism leading to this.
Yes, you can express everything using lambda calculus. Kinda.. so why not use a thing that already exists? Why invent a new language (encapsulation) when previous (binding) suffices?
That relates to another misunderstanding. These ideas like "everything is a function" or "everything is a category" are not there to help you understand complex system better. They are supposed to help you build better…
Well, I just wrote a comment that could be considered an "OOP hate". I was debating whether to do it. The point is not to be snug about it. Functional programming (and monads) are actually simpler. You just need to…
Well, what I don't understand is the SW engineering propensity towards cargo culting and doing things the harder way than mathematicians do. I see it with OOP, XML, design patterns, and other things, now with LLMs.…
What are your arguments for a ban? Why do you expect someone to listen if you didn't provide a justification?