They can’t all be winners, right?

Here. Take my upvotes to balance it out a smidge.

> There's a huge hypocrisy in wanting others to pollute less, yet still have a lifestyle that pollutes, but just less than those polluting the most

> And I'll never ever take a single lesson about pollution from anyone who had two kids or more.

You think you’re clever but I don’t see a contradiction here. He is not asking anyone to pollute less and won’t let anyone, especially someone with two kids or more to preach to him.

In the meantime I need to go through captcha to access the blog…

Can’t check it out yet, but the concept alone sounds great. Thank you for sharing.

You're welcome!

It is presented as a Wikipedia article from the future describing a subculture of tomorrow. See also https://qntm.org/mmacevedo for another example of this genre.

I assume you didn’t make it to the last paragraph, where they put the punchline.

That "punchline" seems just a final argument in support of the thesis (that manual coding is becoming absurd, and only people as dumb as apes will insist on doing it).

If you see gaining fine motor control, understanding pictographic language […] as a prerequisite to driving a car, then yes, all of them are

That's an exaggeration. Nobody is trained to read STOP signs for 16 years, a few months top. And Waymo doesn't need to coordinate a four-limbed, 20-digited, one-headed body to operate a car.

Well, I also think that there is a lot that we process 'in background' and learn on beforehand in order to learn how to drive and then drive. I think the most 'fair' would be to figure out absolute lowest age of kids that would allow them to perform well on streets behind steering wheel.

i am not making a point that it is, I am rather expanding on the possible perspective in which 16 years of training produce a human driver.

That being said, you don't really need training to understand a STOP sign by the time you are required to, its pretty damn clear, it being one of the simpler signs.

But you do get a lot of "cultural training" so to speak.

That’s not learning. That’s carrying over context that you are trusting is correctly summarised over from one conversation to the next.

Which sounds uncomfortably like human memory, which gets rewritten from one recollection to the next. Somehow, we cope.

I disagree. Human memory is literally changing the weights in your neural network. Like, exactly the same.

So in the machine learning world, it would need to be continuous re-training (I think its called fine-tuning now?). Context is not "like human memory". It's more like writing yourself a post-it note that you put in a binder and hand over to a new person to continue the task at a later date.

Its just words that you write to the next person that in LLM world happens to be a copy of the same you that started, no learning happens.

It might guide you, yes, but that's a different story.

Ever seen the movie Memento? That's LLM memory.

I think the time when engineers could steer the heading of the companies they work for is long gone, sadly.

It’s too little too late. Don’t be evil is not a value anyone is even pretending to uphold.

I’d rather someone of these very smart people start to develop countermeasures.

Maybe that’s why they like Israel so much.

I think you are grossly missing the point.

That AI can do it better - by what dimension? - than the priests is arguable, but the reason for a priest to write one is reflection, connection..

Have you ever considered that possibly performing something is not only a mean to some output but that the process is the thing?

That may or may not translate to your coding analogy, but for the article comment you pose, I think you are way off.

I have been present for a sermon that smelled like chatgpt. It does make you wish you had sent your agent instead.

Hang on, you're saying I still get soul credits toward the afterlife if I send my AI agent to sermons?

Hahahaha, ohh man. Love it...

Hrm, this seems to be slop. Claude, gonna leave my phone in the pew, listen and give me a summary when it's over, I'll be in the car.