gavin leech @gl@schelling.pt
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Joined Dec 2022
(Obviously there's lots of places where semi-fictitious data is fine, like idea generation, art, idle talk, and what we called "spraffing": the conversational annealing that comes to you when you lie horizontal on grass and just talk without logical or artistic intent)
My hardware prof said "bad data is worse than no data, because it deceives us".
This is where I am with LLMs; why I still don't use em (outside of research). I can believe that the fourth beast is no worse than most of you lot. But I was already struggling to process you.
you might think I'm exaggerating
https://github.com/g-leech/eulered/blob/8cf52cfcf1591c7a6a9cc3fd786c5d7e834cae20/haskell/64.hs
...but I actually am that slow
Project Euler shouldn't be as engaging as it is. It asks for bullshit arbitrary things like the count of the parity of the lengths of the cycles of the partial denominators of the continued fractions of irrational square roots & somehow I go "hmm yep that's worth an hour of life"
You can throw this back and say that "modern" simply doesn't mean recent anymore; that it instead has post-impressionism and century-old modernism as a referent.
But that fails immediately since: why did that change?
Term from this great blogpost about the International Style of building
spotted in London: the eternal modern, the aesthetic end of history.
(Cézanne died 116 years ago, but his paintings are still considered modern. This is more to do with our stagnation than his prescience.)
Provine: bias towards explaining human behaviour in terms of cognition and consciousness.
Sosa: thinking "mere reflection the source of all intellectual virtue"
(omitting perceptiveness or environmental aid).
Dennett: "mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity"
Various kinds of "philosopher's syndrome":
Tell your friends
@moultano beautiful, but I think you're better off noting that ATP-synthase is an actual crankshaft
https://evolutionnews.org/2022/03/atp-synthase-gets-smarter/
Pretty miraculous song. The best song of 2016, certainly, maybe more.
https://open.spotify.com/track/711WfDztCZpnmJg7Uvwod3?si=149f0216c6844314
The popular misrepresentation of nuclear safety is one of the most consequential lies of the last 80 years
'Often the “tech sector” feels less a product of market incentives than a massive, weird, and opaque public works product, orchestrated by eccentrics like Masayoshi Son, ultimately organized on the aesthetics & moods of its architects, not “doing business” in conventional sense'
context maximiser @Arb
Joined Dec 2022
