>How do they talk about themselves? "You are a Large Language Model" in (system?) prompt would do the trick..
If I remember correctly QBasic even allowed configuring and controlling serial/parallel ports. Just imagine what a guy could do with that if he was bold enough to poke wires into a parallel port.... Today, computers…
> you get a complete breakdown of all the screen modes, color palettes, and their resolutions. If I remember correctly, there were even sample programs included in this documentation.
Only if you are a government contractor...
We inhabit the same spacetime, but we could be seeing different things.
In India, I think we still had BASIC taught in schools and private coaching centers in 95-98.
>you absolutely couldn't learn 'how to do it' without finding obscure books... QBasic's bultin help/documentation was good enough for me..
The author, as a kid, believed computers where like a genie that could manifest anything they ask for. It seems to be a case of wishful thinking of a kid. But it seems that he is falling for the LLM hype the same way.…
>You got one of these thingies and thought you could do anything.. Why did you think that? Did you see people use it like that? anything? really? For me, computers became intriguing after I started programming in BASIC.…
> occasionally we brainstorm. Seriously, how do you brainstorm with an entity that would 180 if pushed a bit..How can you take anything it say at face value?
> I can just always have the ideal architecture. Now you have what you think is the ideal architecture. Since you didn't implement it, you didn't discover it was not the ideal one mid way into the implementation. May be…
Get a load of this. You can have only consciousness and still have a sensation of a full universe. Tell me again how Consciousness is an illusion..
>Yours or mine? Ours. Or every ones..We can easily accept that we inhabit the same spacetime. Why is it hard to imagine the same for consciousness?
> space maybe an illusion.. space is an illusion...The only thing that is absolute is consciousness, on top of which all illusions stand.
>Regarding your examples: PSET corresponds to `ctx.fillRect(x, y, 1, 1)` on a canvas, reading a pixel corresponds to `ctx.getImageData(x, y, 1, 1)`. What is a `ctx` and why do I need that? These are all hacks. Graphics…
> It's instead another brush. Exactly. AI generates imitations of the past. So does a paint brush at its fundamental.
>It's like individuality is dying in front of our eyes Think of what individuality can do with AI assistance. AI is like guns. It levels the playing field. Now it does not matter how much your marketing budget is. If…
>it would have made me a fraud. s/made/revealed/
>everything you could do with QBASIC, you can do with an HTML file Oh yea? give me the equalent of PLAY function. Or the PSET function to turn individual on and off on the screen. Give me the function to read the color…
> dumb They are not dumb. Just not initiated in the direction required to understand this. And the purpose of incessant marketing is to prevent them from doing so..
>just as top notch quality as they produced before, just that now they are much faster. No, they are not. There write programs like they write prose. There is 100% adherence to grammar and spelling when they write…
Which company?
Some body compared AI as something like a big boulder rolling down a mountain, decimating anything that lies in its path. After giving it a bit of thought, I feel that what humanity is doing with LLM is exactly that.…
If I know the code behind the button, I don't have to press it to know what it will do. If I know how LLM work, and what it is trained on, I don't have to "explore" it to understand what it can do for me. The only…
It won't untangle, but may be a greater agent will help you keep moving...
>How do they talk about themselves? "You are a Large Language Model" in (system?) prompt would do the trick..
If I remember correctly QBasic even allowed configuring and controlling serial/parallel ports. Just imagine what a guy could do with that if he was bold enough to poke wires into a parallel port.... Today, computers…
> you get a complete breakdown of all the screen modes, color palettes, and their resolutions. If I remember correctly, there were even sample programs included in this documentation.
Only if you are a government contractor...
We inhabit the same spacetime, but we could be seeing different things.
In India, I think we still had BASIC taught in schools and private coaching centers in 95-98.
>you absolutely couldn't learn 'how to do it' without finding obscure books... QBasic's bultin help/documentation was good enough for me..
The author, as a kid, believed computers where like a genie that could manifest anything they ask for. It seems to be a case of wishful thinking of a kid. But it seems that he is falling for the LLM hype the same way.…
>You got one of these thingies and thought you could do anything.. Why did you think that? Did you see people use it like that? anything? really? For me, computers became intriguing after I started programming in BASIC.…
> occasionally we brainstorm. Seriously, how do you brainstorm with an entity that would 180 if pushed a bit..How can you take anything it say at face value?
> I can just always have the ideal architecture. Now you have what you think is the ideal architecture. Since you didn't implement it, you didn't discover it was not the ideal one mid way into the implementation. May be…
Get a load of this. You can have only consciousness and still have a sensation of a full universe. Tell me again how Consciousness is an illusion..
>Yours or mine? Ours. Or every ones..We can easily accept that we inhabit the same spacetime. Why is it hard to imagine the same for consciousness?
> space maybe an illusion.. space is an illusion...The only thing that is absolute is consciousness, on top of which all illusions stand.
>Regarding your examples: PSET corresponds to `ctx.fillRect(x, y, 1, 1)` on a canvas, reading a pixel corresponds to `ctx.getImageData(x, y, 1, 1)`. What is a `ctx` and why do I need that? These are all hacks. Graphics…
> It's instead another brush. Exactly. AI generates imitations of the past. So does a paint brush at its fundamental.
>It's like individuality is dying in front of our eyes Think of what individuality can do with AI assistance. AI is like guns. It levels the playing field. Now it does not matter how much your marketing budget is. If…
>it would have made me a fraud. s/made/revealed/
>everything you could do with QBASIC, you can do with an HTML file Oh yea? give me the equalent of PLAY function. Or the PSET function to turn individual on and off on the screen. Give me the function to read the color…
> dumb They are not dumb. Just not initiated in the direction required to understand this. And the purpose of incessant marketing is to prevent them from doing so..
>just as top notch quality as they produced before, just that now they are much faster. No, they are not. There write programs like they write prose. There is 100% adherence to grammar and spelling when they write…
Which company?
Some body compared AI as something like a big boulder rolling down a mountain, decimating anything that lies in its path. After giving it a bit of thought, I feel that what humanity is doing with LLM is exactly that.…
If I know the code behind the button, I don't have to press it to know what it will do. If I know how LLM work, and what it is trained on, I don't have to "explore" it to understand what it can do for me. The only…
It won't untangle, but may be a greater agent will help you keep moving...