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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • We’re forced to speculate due to a lack of insider knowledge

    You mean you want people to believe unsubstantiated claims that lack evidence?

    but we can use context clues like the fact that other nations are using social media for the same purpose and it originating in China, a fellow world superpower, to reason that they would be using it for similar purposes. Why wouldn’t they be using an effective tool like this? This stuff isn’t being created for altruistic reasons.

    Still don’t see any argument that justifies substituting “could/would” with “is” except vague notion of “we do it, so they’re definitely doing it”

















  • that’s quite dishonest because LLMs have had all manner of facts pre-trained on it with datacenters all over the world catering to it. If you think it can learn in the real world without many many iterations and it still needs pushing and proding on simple tasks that humans perform then I am not convinced.

    It’s like saying a chess playing computer program like stockfish is a good indicator of intelligence because it knows to play chess but you forgot that the human chess players’ expertise was used to train it and understand what makes a good chess program.



  • “embodies the elegance of simplicity”

    corporate speak that doesn’t mean anything. Also If you are talking to the creator of a programming language they already know that. That was the goal of the language.

    “Plan 9 from bell labs, another landmark achievement”

    the sentence is framed as if its a school essay where the teacher asked the question “describe the evolution of unix and linux in 300 words”

    “The sam and Acme editors which showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design”

    Again explaining how good software is to the author. Also note how this sentence could have been a question in a school essay: “What are the design philosopies behind the sam and acme editors?”