We understand reasoning enough to know humans (and other animals with complex brains) reason in a way that LLMs cannot.

While our reasoning also works with pattern matching it incorporates immeasurably more signals than language - language is almost peripheric to it even in humans. And more importantly we experience things, everything we do acts as a small training round not just in language but on every aspect of the task we are performing, and gives us a miriad of patterns to match later.

Until AI can match a fragment of this we are not going to have an AGI. And for the experience aspect there’s no economic incentive under capitalism to achieve, if it happens it will come out of an underfunded university.

It still solves one end of the problem. The cable problem probably needs enforcement from law side.

It’s eastern Poland tilting the scales to the far-right, despite all the nationalistic talk they are still pretty russified.

Like all dating apps they have a strong incentive to promote superficial short-term connections over long term relationships so they have repeated customers. The worst thing that can happen to a dating app is their users finding a long term partner.

In other news, asking Nick Clegg before emptying out his home would kill the robbery industry.

There have been former Google employees saying they had solutions to deal with SEO, but they were vetoed by the ads side of business, since better results reduce “engagement”.

If the war on terror counts as a world war, then we are at least on world war 10.

China’s ability to mix and match the worst of communism and capitalism in a single dystopian package never ceases to amaze me.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

If they have red lines this needs to be it. If they allow the Republican Party to send people to a concentration camp without due process, especially when they claim they can’t get people back, the Supreme Court might as well fire themselves and lock the doors on the way out.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

Because nothing helps a struggling economy like legalized nepotism.

It’s inevitable for ads supported social media.

They need to keep you “engaged” to show you more ads, and the most effective way to do it is to foster conflict.

You underestimate how much interface and algorithms impact how people interact with eachother.

“US President has an uneventful Thursday and doesn’t crash the world economy”.

I pity The Onion’s writers.

We didn’t have the Intel 8080 chip that the Altair computer ran on, So Paul got to work writing a program that would simulate one on Harvard’s PDP-10 mainframe. This allowed us to test our software without needing an actual Altair.

So, basically:

We are going to write a compiler, but first we are going to write a Virtual Machine from scratch because the hardware is too expensive.

Good times.

As a native Portuguese speaker I found it very useful when I started to learn English. And even nowadays having some form of “visual map” between English and Portuguese at least for more erudite words - which tend to be the ones that are shared between more languages - helps me write English better.

The similarities between English and German also ended up helping me learn German.

Going by how ortography changes have gone in other languages, I doubt it.

Besides English, if English fix its ortography it’s going to become much harder to learn for speakers of other European languages - as confusing the pronunciation rules and exceptions are, they are caused by writing things similarly to other European languages while mangling the original pronunciation.

Plot twist: the Tulsi Gabard in the chat was an Iranian spy instead of the real Russian spy.