If they became big companies with that "unnecessary complexity", maybe code quality does not matter as much as you want to believe. Furthermore, even the fastest or well behaved horses were replaced.
> can do so with such thoroughness that we forget that other ways of thinking even existed.
There is a debate between Chomsky and Foucault [1] where they discuss exactly that at some point (I don't remember the timestamp, sorry). There is an argument about how most of the knowledge of a specific era is "lost" when there is a big discovery. It was a random recommendation from YouTube, and I was quite pleased when I decided to give it a watch.
I encountered this in book form way back in my 20s and it was a real treasure. Somehow it didn't click that of course there was a video recording of the actual debate itself - a real debate! - and of course that recording is now on YouTube.
Thanks for the link, I'll have to muster up the attention span to give it a (re?)watch
English is not my native language, so maybe I'm losing some context. How can that comment not be racist? I'm being genuine. Did something get over my head?
I don't know either. But it was the first time I'd ever seen this phrasing and searching the internet for it didn't turn up much. So I came up with what I thought the best-faith interpretation of it could be—that due to my (perceived) racial background I was deploying motivated reasoning to advocate for an action that appears neutral but was chosen because it would favor people who share my same political interests.
But I'm not sure that logic is sound even if it was my motivation. Old folks and rural folks would probably benefit most from voting access that wasn't tied to a physical location. So I don't know. I want to expand voting access because our turnout is so low, not because "the right people" aren't voting or whatever nonsense.
It's frustrating, honestly. Everyday we trust some tech with our lives, but voting? It's unacceptable. Oh, you can have this cryptocurrency that you can use to buy things without the government or anyone else getting to spy on you! But voting should be only with paper and pen because you can not trust machines!!!
Furthermore, the first post of this thread is a religion person talking about christian faith out of nowhere. There's no need for LLMs to have low efforts attempts on social media, people already do that.
I understand that hyping is the career of a lot of people, but it's a little annoying how every Twitter link posted here is full of "IT'S A GAME CHANGER!!! NOTHING IS THE SAME ANYMORE!!! BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!" energy. The examples look great, but it's hard to ignore the unprofessional evaluation that you described.
I think that it's something that model providers don't want to fix, because the amount of times that Claude Code just decided to delete tests that were not passing before I added a memory saying that it would need to ask for my permission to do that was staggering. It stopped happening after the memory, so I believe that it could be easily fixed by a system prompt.
Honestly, HN crowd is very diverse. I would say that it's a normal distribution here. There are some fascists/neonazi, some communists/anarchists and a lot of liberals/conservatives. I know that here is not the place for these kind of conversations, but it's funny how it's way better for that than other social media platforms. It's not perfect, of course, but perfect is not possible in real life.
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