Predators eating prey alive, like lions eating bison from their bellies first.

Mmm fair point

I don’t think anyone cares

Yelling at a rock won’t change it into a rocking chair, neither does yelling at a rock change you a rock.

Behavior and nature are separate, it’s dumb to argue with idiots, but acting like an idiot once doesn’t make you one (necessarily)

I wonder if Confucius was really just a shit poster before the internet

My experience is every person in the US who enters the workforce and gets their first paycheck is always surprised. Since here in the us salary is given in pretax dollars, you never get the amount you’d expect for your first one.

Otherwise, some complain scout sales tax in the us for a similar reason, especially going from a state with none to a state with a high rate

Vscode when I’m feeling productive, neovim when I’m feeling saucy

Hate pretty much every other ide out there, but do occasionally get forced into Android studio or xcode. Xcode is the worst, msvs a close second.

One day a multi cursor first multi-language extension lightweight ide will replace vscode I’m sure but it’s solid for now.

“Which is bad news for developers”

Nah, we’ve been through lots of iterations of community for developers, irc, maillists, forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most of my complex questions go through specific discord communities now. I’m not trying to spend a year editing a single post because some swamp ass weanie on stackoverflow has his nose covered in rule dust.

Yes ai has changed the game a bit, but it is not removing community, it’s mostly just cutting down on the question duplication

My most recent foray into a new technology was working with vulkan in rust on a mac, stackoverflow is useless compared to the vulkan discord.

Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I’m super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same

How does the whole vampire thing work anyways? Like if there’s a hole in the wall breaking the integrity of the house are they still barred? How much of the house can be removed before it’s no longer considered a house? A whole wall? In that case could the police vampire just drill a hole or remove a wall?

Teams is their replacement, viable or not

Pkmn unbound, magicraft, modded balatro

Heck of a time

Likely a prefrontal cortex, the administrative center of the brain and generally host to human consciousness. As well as a dedicated memory system with learning plasticity.

Humans have systems that mirror llms but llms are missing a few key components to be precise replicas of human brains, mostly because it’s computationally expensive to consider and the goal is different.

Some specific things the brain has that llms don’t directly account for are different neurochemicals (favoring a single floating value per neuron), synaptogenesis, neurogenesis, synapse fire travel duration and myelin, neural pruning, potassium and sodium channels, downstream effects, etc. We use math and gradient descent to somewhat mirror the brain’s hebbian learning but do not perform precisely the same operations using the same systems.

In my opinion having a dedicated module for consciousness would bridge the gap, possibly while accounting for some of the missing characteristics. Consciousness is not an indescribable mystery, we have performed tons of experiments and received a whole lot of information on the topic.

As it stands llms are largely reasonable approximations of the language center of the brain but little more. It may honestly not take much to get what we consider consciousness humming in a system that includes an llm as a component.

How do you think god comes into the equation? What do you think about split brain syndrome in which people demonstrate having multiple consciousnesses? If consciousness is based on a metaphysical property why can it be altered with chemicals and drugs? What do you think happens during a lobotomy?

I get that evidence based thinking is generally not compatible with religious postulates, but just throwing up your hands and saying consciousness comes from the gods is an incredibly weak position to hold.

Consciousness is an emergent property, generally self awareness and singularity are key defining features.

There is no secret sauce to llms that would make them any more conscious than Wikipedia.

Nintendo continues to demonstrate why my personal boycott continues. What a shitty company.

How dare you think Google would listen to its users and not the advertisers. Fr though I’m not sure, manifest v3 does use a sandboxing feature but it’s unclear at first glance if they are directly related

For large groups I suppose airbnbs are more reasonable, though it’s honestly not that big of a difference in pricing for vacation rentals.

Housekeeping is easy, just put the little do not disturb sign up, they won’t bug you.

I don’t have an opinion on the other stuff though.

5 years too late, hotels have been cheaper and better for a while now. All of these companies that touted revolutionizing industries have just become worse versions.

Netflix, airbnb, uber, etc all of them are worse for people than the things they replaced

Sometimes people do things they know are wrong. Beating one’s child is pretty goddamn obviously wrong.

The irony of your post is that it would apply well to the child who indeed should be taught instead of physically abused (punished).

But why should society let abusers decide what the abused learn when the lessons being imparted are almost always self-serving.

We all make mistakes, we are all human, but sometimes the mistakes we make should have consequences that prevent future errors. Drive drunk? You shouldn’t have a license or a car. Shoot up a school? You shouldn’t have a gun, be near schools, or really even be in general society. Beat your child? You shouldn’t be around children

How come?