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If you want to understand the psychological harm LLMs can do to someone, you have to read conspiracy theory forums. This pattern of the LLM spiraling with you into a private universe of meaning is the overwhelming norm

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

@futurebird There is this trend in business the las 30 years of rent-don’t-own. I do IT and this is “the cloud.” Rent servers, don’t own them. There’s the whole Office365 and every other software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry. Streaming music and film. Everyone wants recurring revenue, not capital investment. It drives subscription models in your products because everything underpinning your business is in a subscription, too.

There’s a principle that someone who specialises in something (computers, staffing, medical testing) will optimise it better than you can and make it cheaper, more efficient. But the myth is that they will share the resulting cost savings with you. Instead, they try to lower costs -for them- without changing the price -for you-. That’s where profit comes from, after all.

So people figure outsourcing is somehow good. Because they think it saves their business money and they get better service from a specialist. I’m sure that’s true sometimes. But mostly this seems like an unproven religious belief.

this is so awesome! an independent *implementation* in addition to an *instance*. really big step for the protocol ecosystem! and very impressive considering how much work is needed on protocol specs 😅

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/post/3lo7xk2szvs2b

angel wearing a shirt with "my eyes are over here" with arrows pointing in all directions

I'm getting my ducks are in a row. I'm putting my chickadees in a column. The squirrels are stored in SQLite. I'm getting my chipmunks in Redis. I've been getting my crows into Postgres. I'm storing my pigeons in Mongo. There are raccoons in YAML? Who put raccoons in YAML? We've got snakes in an OracleDB? Why do we have either of those? Legacy acquisition? We have cockroaches in... well at least that makes sense. You say they're load-bearing cockroaches? And... is this an FTP server for ants?

Those that obsess over LLMs like to believe that Plain English sits at the top of the abstraction pile, that it is the thing that a programming environment should seek to model. From this point of view, an LLM seems perfect: type in words, program comes out.

But Plain English is not the top of the pile, not even close. It's an imprecise and clumsy lingo. The process of development is about throwing away that imprecision and engaging with the reality of the possibility space.

Imagine saying this to someone 50years ago: "Netcat found a bug in the pipe playing with the mouse"

#technology #innovation #communication #generationaldifference #Meme

Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.

Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.

They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.

It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.

https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/en/index.html

It can be hard for those that don't do a lot of programming to understand, but programmers do not think in Plain English (or whatever their native tongue is). They do not, for the most part, spend their time wrangling & getting frustrated at their tools.

Instead, programmers think in abstractions that sit beyond the realm of natural language, and those abstractions are carved through dialect with the machine. The machine pushes back, the chisel strikes the marble, and the abstraction evolves.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"Lol," said Gandalf. "Lmao."