I work at big tech (not MS) and yes, the comp package really is that good, though not as good as it used to be. I immediately doubled my total comp when I came here from my last job, and now it’s ~5x. I could retire right now if I wanted, so I don’t care about layoffs anymore.

In a sense, AI is already fucking with everyone’s brain when it comes to mass-produced ads and propaganda.

I don’t not use Arch, by the way

It’s a reference to this:

No, totally different. Blinding stew is for disciplining children.

Based and nixpilled

I agree, but I’m not sure it matters when it comes to the big questions, like “what separates us from the LLMs?” Answering that basically amounts to answering “what does it mean to be human?”, which has been stumping philosophers for millennia.

It’s true that artificial neurons are significant different than biological ones, but are biological neurons what make us human? I’d argue no. Animals have neurons, so are they human? Also, if we ever did create a brain simulation that perfectly replicated someone’s brain down to the cellular level, and that simulation behaved exactly like the original, I would characterize that as a human.

It’s also true LLMs can’t learn, but there are plenty of people with anterograde amnesia that can’t either.

This feels similar to the debates about what separates us from other animal species. It used to be thought that humans were qualitatively different than other species by virtue of our use of tools, language, and culture. Then it was discovered that plenty of other animals use tools, have language, and something resembling a culture. These discoveries were ridiculed by many throughout the 20th century, even by scientists, because they wanted to keep believing humans are special in some qualitative way. I see the same thing happening with LLMs.

I don’t know how I work. I couldn’t tell you much about neuroscience beyond “neurons are linked together and somehow that creates thoughts”. And even when it comes to complex thoughts, I sometimes can’t explain why. At my job, I often lean on intuition I’ve developed over a decade. I can look at a system and get an immediate sense if it’s going to work well, but actually explaining why or why not takes a lot more time and energy. Am I an LLM?

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Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kevin Rose Digg wgah’nagl fhtagn

The OG. The fact it was all done by a single dude blows my mind. People often praise Toby Fox for the same reason, and he definitely deserves it, but he wasn’t good at programming. Pixel was good at everything: programming, music, writing, and art.

I’ll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.

Thankfully, there’s an official standard for using the internet with just carrier pigeons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

Why is the giant tentacle monster in the desert? Someone should help the poor thing get back to the ocean before it dehydrates

Let me guess, its favorite band is sssssslayer

It’s a slam dunk case. Judges are famous for being easily swayed by frivolous semantic arguments from non-lawyers. It’s kind of like that old sci-fi trope of AIs being defeated when the hero states a logical paradox.

The Bronze Age collapse happened when they ran out of cinnamon to make bronzer

Somebody tell the sovcit that being a witness to their stupidity isn’t what the “witness” in “witness tampering” means.

Hate to defend a sovcit, but “unalienable” is a valid synonym of inalienable and was used in the Declaration of Independence

“just found these”? Like, did some random sovcit plant them? Or do they have amnesia and don’t remember putting them there?