I think the author gestures at a pretty solid argument that most of the “mechanical” arguments for LLM capabilities have a clear trend line towards “can do thing”.

Strictly speaking, the job he’s describing even falls into that category, there’s just not a lot of training data for it.

Anecdotally this has matched what I’ve seen. Which is unfortunate because the part of tech I like the least, regarding software development, is when the thing that was built was actually used for anything.

I got into this specifically, and exclusively, for the craft. I don’t like making other’s lives " better", I don’t like “solving problems”, I don’t like the customer. But here we are staring down the barrel of a career making “products”.

I know 2 of those I think. I don’t know what c through w is referring to though

This might be one of the best summaries of LLMs in their current state I’ve seen here. People claiming they’re useless are stuck in 23’ but to say they’re at AGI/ASI is accelerationist techo-paganism.

Based and levelheaded take

Guix.

Try Guix. It’s great.

Not being engaged in politics is synonymous with not being engaged in life.

Politics is “of the people”, unless you’re living alone in a cave in the middle of the woods and never using anything you didn’t yourself make or extract, you are engaged in politics. Every time you interact with literally anything, ever, at all, for any reason, you are doing something political.

My biggest complaint about modern neo liberalism is the cultural work it’s done to convince people “politics” is not synonymous “existence”.

I’m afraid you’ll have to get over that hangup. Considering how politics literally means “of the people”

Okay I’m seeing a lot of your replies here this is a really weird argument to make. You’re literally arguing from symantics.

Hi! I use FreeBSD as a daily driver.

I browse the web, code, and game on it. Works great for me.

My current wishlist is for FreeBSD to have a more robust process supervision system (Dinit I’m looking at you) and for pkg to include some kind of declarative way to build.

It’s great, I love it, join devil Linux.

It’s always refreshing to read something that I can be 100% sure was not written by an AI.

A few of the erdos problems have been independently verified. It’s legit.

This is what I’m saying. Political violence is 100% a valid form of protest.

It’s not the first pick, more like second or third, but we’re WELL past that point.

Loving the recent “New York is a part of New England” trend.

A joint northeastern political identity will help with soft balkanization.

Is this bait or are you actually 14? There are a group of people engaged in genocide and performing a fascist coup, this guy ran on a “stop the genocide and fascist coup” platform. Barring the existence of a legitimate alternative (and let’s be honest, there wasn’t) please, for the love of god, explain to me why I should care about literally anything but the fact that he wants to stop the genocide and the fascists?

When the gestapo come to your door and you need to defend yourself are you going to not reach for a gun because that would imply tacit approval for the gun lobby?

They’re a fed. Or a useful idiot. We lost this week. With the margin being what is is we may have lost overall.

As entertaining as that would be, no.

BUT, I do think he would be willing to violate the constitution in order to attack political enemies.

Listen I know the talking points whatever GS-13 you work for gave to you imply people don’t have an appetite for this but take a look at the recent polling.

Most of Platner’s voters supported him staying in.

I don’t think he cares about non-whites like you may. I think he hates capitalists, or billionaires, or whatever homunculus he’s created in his mind that embodies the ruling class. That’s useful; a bitter, violent man with a grudge. That’s good, that’s very good. The US war machine is built off the backs of people like him for a reason.

I think given the opportunity he would be an asset in harming US imperial interests. He’s an angry killer and we gave him something to go after. I’m starting to notice a lot of “leftists” don’t have the stomach for the kinds of things were going to have to do to bring every single fascist in this country to heel.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, don’t you have like an hourly report to be sending to your supervisor fed boy?

His opponent is complicit in genocide and the fascist takeover of the united States.

Precisely how many white women need to be raped to be equivalent to that? It sounds like one. This is simple utilitarian calculus. He represented more net good than his opponent. We have all collectively agreed, based on this race, that genocide and fascism are fine as long as no white women are hurt.

All that is true.

And with any luck he may have been willing to show the same behavior to the enemy. The left could have had their very own psychopathic killer who likely would have been very amenable to brutally crushing republican opposition In a bloody pogrom.

Alas, we’ll just lose sanctimoniously.

I appreciate your sense of hope and optimism though I agree that we will certainly not see eye to eye here.

From my position I view the United States as the most direct and immediate threat to long term growth for the human race. I’m an engineer first and everything else second so for me it’s a question of optimization. The US is holding back more efficient systems of resource allocation which is sub-optimal and that is fundamentally unacceptable.

I’ve appreciated the back and forth :)