“Philosophy & Music” are indeed two categories of things that share one letter between them.

Feel very happy to recognise only Corbyn and Penrose by name, no idea what any of them are doing there.

I mean, I know who Penrose was, but from the context I assume he’s probably acutely suffering from Nobel Disease and I have zero idea what he’s been up to outside of physics.

And isn’t Corbyn just a boring lefty UK politician? Does he have like a philosophy background or something?

This is really weird because every single person in academia I talked to about non-CS stuff is either a perfectly median centrist social-democrat or literally a member of the local communist party, with zero variation in between those two.

Like it’s either you’re a young idealist that still believes the world can be better, or you’re 40 with three kids and a mortgage that just wants the government to be relatively stable and not fuck shit up for you.

I know zero Americans though, so maybe there’s a skew there.

I haven’t worked in industry for a while now but from your accounts it seems like… nothing’s changed?

Sturgeon’s law very much applies to software engineers. I’m sorry but the vast majority of people in my junior cohort I wouldn’t hire to replace my lightbulb. Of course they’re all in on LLMs. They’ll be doing what they were doing best, generating tons of awful code they copied from somewhere else that the adults in the room will have to clean up later, just the generation and copying is now paid at a $100 monthly subscription.

Like seriously, it doesn’t matter even a tiny bit the code got generated by a bullshit machine when the code is Node.JS anyway. If you’re building a giant penis out of cow dung it doesn’t matter who your construction crew is and how good they are. And the industry is like 90% building giant penises than never come to fruition anyway.

Just use “intern”.

And Bukele, two best buds and their gilded fascism

After @daphnelawless.com on bsky

Nice morning chuckle

HP fanfic but house points are crypto and the chocolate frog cards are NFTs tracked on a magical blockchain

I had a religious youth and believed in an immortal soul. Even when I came out of that, I quickly believed in the potential of radical transhuman life extension.

My dude you’re so, so, sooo close to realising it, you should spontaneously quantum-tunnel into self-awareness any second now

The storm rages within

Yet I hold F to pay respects

Apparently including a camera-esque filename in prompts for the latest mid journey release can make it more photorealistic.

This entire enterprise is just shamanry, we are like two steps away from “throwing a goat into a volcano makes your next prompt more realistic”

I’ll give this author +10 bayes points for noticing Trump does unpredictable batshit stuff

+10 bayes points

Has someone on LW already proposed a BayesCoin or have I just figured out how to steal lunch money from all rationalists at once

Thanks Scott, never change.

Not to worry, he never will!

“Do not use for anything.”

That’s really harsh since I have a few bad books that are at least useful as monitor stands

I agree with him insofar as Trump and his lackeys definitely think and act as if it was the “autocratic branch” and both the legislature and judiciary don’t seem to be interested in disabusing them of that notion

TW: contains real chuds

read the study yourself

• > ask the commenter if it’s a study or a self-interested blog post
• > they don’t understand
• > pull out illustrated diagram explaining that something hosted exclusively on the website of the for-profit business all authors are affiliated with is not the same as a peer-reviewed study published in a real venue
• > they laugh and say “it’s a good study sir”
• > click the link
• > it’s a blog post

This is actually an accurate representation of most “gifted olympiad laureate attempting to solve a freshman CS problem on the blackboard” students I’ve went to uni with.

Jumps to the front after 5 seconds from the task being assigned, bluffs that the problem is trivial, tries to salvage their reasoning for 5 minutes when questioned by the tutor, turns out the theorem they said was trivial is actually false, sits down having wasted 10 minutes of everyone’s time.

OpenBrain “responsibly” elects not to release its model publicly to avoid it being called “underwhelming” and, to use a technical term, “gobshite”.

It’s eugenics but as a religious cult for reactionaries

Yud is that creepy nerd from your middle school who wrote disturbing fan fiction, but it wasn’t just a phase and now he has the aforementioned cult

Misogyny is the free square, easy to forget