Jevon's paradox is a 19th century economic observation about coal that has turned into a meme that people are using to support the most profound bullshit that they already believe to be true a priori. Lawyers are…
Gold is an even better example. The price has doubled but it takes 10-15 years on average just for the permitting of a new mine in the US. Offshore drilling for oil is a 7-8 year project. People in software I think…
Smil to me shows that most people that talk about this subject are completely full of shit. The subject is far too complicated to have any rational discussion on.
This is not a personal belief this is a regurgitation of the most standard neoliberal orthodoxy.
I think the main mistake with this is that the concept of a "complex machine" has no meaning. A “machine” is precisely what eliminates complexity by design. "People are complex machines" already has no meaning and then…
We are paying the price now for not teaching language philosophy as a core educational requirement. Most people have had no exposure to even the most basic ideas of language philosophy. The idea all these people go to…
This is all nonsense. It is like saying the airplane understands how to fly. "You disagree? Well lets see you fly! You are saying the airplane doesn't understand how to fly and you can't even fly yourself?" This would…
Everyone reading this understands the meaning of a sunrise. It is a wonderful example of the use theory of meaning. If you raised a baby inside a windowless solitary confinement cell for 20 years and then one day show…
The taste of chocolate is also assuming information-theoretic models are correct and not a use-based, pragmatic theory of meaning. I don't agree with information-theoretic models in this context but we come to the same…
Totally agree. I would never use windows at home but Excel at work is the main reason to ever use Windows. I have Libre Calc installed because I am on mint at home and even if it could do everything excel could do, I…
I have used linux for 10 years now but I think you just have to view a mac mini as the cost of a hardware synth or a guitar. Then all your problems are solved. At this point, I need a nice gpu on a linux machine and a…
You are spot on and summed it up perfectly. I am using language models as much as anyone and they work but they don't work the way the marketing and popular delusion behind them is pretending they work. The best book on…
The idea of no social hierarchy is completely absurd. There is even a small amount of hierarchy at our 15 person Thanksgiving family dinner.
The problem is Debt to GDP is largely meaningless. It is the total debt that matters. I am sick of reading this bullshit. You don't know what you are talking about and it is just always repeated as a reason to spend…
Searle also has almost 20 books, most written after 1980 and the Chinese room. None that I have read are pop science NYT best seller types. I suspect that is why most people only know the Chinese room. His depth of…
I am not a software engineer but I am using my own vibe coded video efx software, my own vibe coded audio synth, my own vibe coded art generator for art. These aren't software products though. No one else is ever going…
I don't think you can really compare because the culture is so different. Before the internet, you weren't going to get famous without being an actor, musician, artist, author, etc. Sam Walton was not famous the way…
I love chatGPT5 and Claude but they aren't as big of a deal as going from no internet to having the internet. That I think is the entire mistake of this bubble. We confused what we do have with some kind of science…
I suffered through the book and I just think it is a rather boring writing style. The poseur part is that it doesn't matter if you know what is in the book or not. That is actually the interesting part of the book to me…
I just assume when I read someone post Dunning-Kruger like this they are trying to make an ironic joke.
I think at some point we will stop pretending we have real AI. We have a breakthrough in natural language processing but LLMs are much closer to Microsoft Word than something as fantastical as "AGI". We don't blame…
Jevon's paradox is a 19th century economic observation about coal that has turned into a meme that people are using to support the most profound bullshit that they already believe to be true a priori. Lawyers are…
Gold is an even better example. The price has doubled but it takes 10-15 years on average just for the permitting of a new mine in the US. Offshore drilling for oil is a 7-8 year project. People in software I think…
Smil to me shows that most people that talk about this subject are completely full of shit. The subject is far too complicated to have any rational discussion on.
This is not a personal belief this is a regurgitation of the most standard neoliberal orthodoxy.
I think the main mistake with this is that the concept of a "complex machine" has no meaning. A “machine” is precisely what eliminates complexity by design. "People are complex machines" already has no meaning and then…
We are paying the price now for not teaching language philosophy as a core educational requirement. Most people have had no exposure to even the most basic ideas of language philosophy. The idea all these people go to…
This is all nonsense. It is like saying the airplane understands how to fly. "You disagree? Well lets see you fly! You are saying the airplane doesn't understand how to fly and you can't even fly yourself?" This would…
Everyone reading this understands the meaning of a sunrise. It is a wonderful example of the use theory of meaning. If you raised a baby inside a windowless solitary confinement cell for 20 years and then one day show…
The taste of chocolate is also assuming information-theoretic models are correct and not a use-based, pragmatic theory of meaning. I don't agree with information-theoretic models in this context but we come to the same…
Totally agree. I would never use windows at home but Excel at work is the main reason to ever use Windows. I have Libre Calc installed because I am on mint at home and even if it could do everything excel could do, I…
I have used linux for 10 years now but I think you just have to view a mac mini as the cost of a hardware synth or a guitar. Then all your problems are solved. At this point, I need a nice gpu on a linux machine and a…
You are spot on and summed it up perfectly. I am using language models as much as anyone and they work but they don't work the way the marketing and popular delusion behind them is pretending they work. The best book on…
The idea of no social hierarchy is completely absurd. There is even a small amount of hierarchy at our 15 person Thanksgiving family dinner.
The problem is Debt to GDP is largely meaningless. It is the total debt that matters. I am sick of reading this bullshit. You don't know what you are talking about and it is just always repeated as a reason to spend…
Searle also has almost 20 books, most written after 1980 and the Chinese room. None that I have read are pop science NYT best seller types. I suspect that is why most people only know the Chinese room. His depth of…
I am not a software engineer but I am using my own vibe coded video efx software, my own vibe coded audio synth, my own vibe coded art generator for art. These aren't software products though. No one else is ever going…
I don't think you can really compare because the culture is so different. Before the internet, you weren't going to get famous without being an actor, musician, artist, author, etc. Sam Walton was not famous the way…
I love chatGPT5 and Claude but they aren't as big of a deal as going from no internet to having the internet. That I think is the entire mistake of this bubble. We confused what we do have with some kind of science…
I suffered through the book and I just think it is a rather boring writing style. The poseur part is that it doesn't matter if you know what is in the book or not. That is actually the interesting part of the book to me…
I just assume when I read someone post Dunning-Kruger like this they are trying to make an ironic joke.
I think at some point we will stop pretending we have real AI. We have a breakthrough in natural language processing but LLMs are much closer to Microsoft Word than something as fantastical as "AGI". We don't blame…