Fat cat math professors have had it too good for too long. It’s time they leave a few crumbs for AI company CEOs!
Only psychopaths interpret the prompt given to them by the world as, "make as much money as you can."
I’m no proponent of capital punishment, but to take the question seriously: as an extreme measure to disincentivize extreme externalities that would otherwise never be priced in. In the status quo, captains of industry…
Dear Garvy. You and your writing are wonderful. Sincerely, someone.
I don’t really understand this. Sometimes I see even stronger versions of this sentiment, that amount to saying, hey, it’s inevitable, so you might as well be e/acc. But you can just not do things. Societies can just…
Typo-free text. Typo-free text used to more be likely to also be well-written, but now it’s likely not to be. But also, obviously, they’re being a gadfly for funsies.
Indeed
I’m not making an argument, I’m offering a thought experiment: “what if workers are no longer needed at all, so that they have nothing to threaten to withhold?” It’s a bleak possibility.
Grammatically correct Claudish would say, “did not land clean.” Amateur hour.
What if even unions no longer have leverage?
No, of course $300k is a very high salary even on a US basis, never mind a global one. I’m not confused about that. I went my whole life thinking $100k was like “you’ve made it.” But it turns out that if you have what…
I so appreciate the compassion in this comment. It’s rare on the internet.
Indeed. You realize this, and the next thing you realize is that you’re at the tail end of it and have about a year to escape the permanent yadda yadda yadda…
Oh hey that’s me! Not literally me. Probably I was a little better off. But I was recently in a similar position, and feel like my PhD was a lost decade in some ways. The answer, as I’m sure many already know, is…
Like something straight out of the old internet. Beautiful work.
This is basically what I believe, too. Its outputs are generally syntactically correct human-language sentences, but semantically, and especially at higher levels of abstraction, it is no longer correct to think of them…
My impression from working with claude code far more than is good for my sanity is that Claude's human comprehensibility is fractally messed-up. On more superficial levels, this looks more like a "language" thing: it…
Indeed. It’s a real tragedy.
Someone close to me is a folk musician who’s done surprisingly well, at least getting by as a full-time performer. A lot of what people are paying for when they get tickets to see her is the feeling of proximity to…
It’s unfortunate no matter who!
People overcorrect, even when making directionally necessary corrections.
Rhetorically wondering :)
Just want to say, this comment section on this website would have been unthinkable a few years ago. It’s wild: all the engineers have developed class consciousness. I wonder how that happened? Anyway, it’s fun to watch,…
Even more so than borderline incoherent academic writing like Foucault or Lacan or whatnot, for that matter. It’s less “I don’t understand this and I suspect the author doesn’t either” and more “reading this feels like…
Better start chinamaxxing
Fat cat math professors have had it too good for too long. It’s time they leave a few crumbs for AI company CEOs!
Only psychopaths interpret the prompt given to them by the world as, "make as much money as you can."
I’m no proponent of capital punishment, but to take the question seriously: as an extreme measure to disincentivize extreme externalities that would otherwise never be priced in. In the status quo, captains of industry…
Dear Garvy. You and your writing are wonderful. Sincerely, someone.
I don’t really understand this. Sometimes I see even stronger versions of this sentiment, that amount to saying, hey, it’s inevitable, so you might as well be e/acc. But you can just not do things. Societies can just…
Typo-free text. Typo-free text used to more be likely to also be well-written, but now it’s likely not to be. But also, obviously, they’re being a gadfly for funsies.
Indeed
I’m not making an argument, I’m offering a thought experiment: “what if workers are no longer needed at all, so that they have nothing to threaten to withhold?” It’s a bleak possibility.
Grammatically correct Claudish would say, “did not land clean.” Amateur hour.
What if even unions no longer have leverage?
No, of course $300k is a very high salary even on a US basis, never mind a global one. I’m not confused about that. I went my whole life thinking $100k was like “you’ve made it.” But it turns out that if you have what…
I so appreciate the compassion in this comment. It’s rare on the internet.
Indeed. You realize this, and the next thing you realize is that you’re at the tail end of it and have about a year to escape the permanent yadda yadda yadda…
Oh hey that’s me! Not literally me. Probably I was a little better off. But I was recently in a similar position, and feel like my PhD was a lost decade in some ways. The answer, as I’m sure many already know, is…
Like something straight out of the old internet. Beautiful work.
This is basically what I believe, too. Its outputs are generally syntactically correct human-language sentences, but semantically, and especially at higher levels of abstraction, it is no longer correct to think of them…
My impression from working with claude code far more than is good for my sanity is that Claude's human comprehensibility is fractally messed-up. On more superficial levels, this looks more like a "language" thing: it…
Indeed. It’s a real tragedy.
Someone close to me is a folk musician who’s done surprisingly well, at least getting by as a full-time performer. A lot of what people are paying for when they get tickets to see her is the feeling of proximity to…
It’s unfortunate no matter who!
People overcorrect, even when making directionally necessary corrections.
Rhetorically wondering :)
Just want to say, this comment section on this website would have been unthinkable a few years ago. It’s wild: all the engineers have developed class consciousness. I wonder how that happened? Anyway, it’s fun to watch,…
Even more so than borderline incoherent academic writing like Foucault or Lacan or whatnot, for that matter. It’s less “I don’t understand this and I suspect the author doesn’t either” and more “reading this feels like…
Better start chinamaxxing