FeteCommuniste

The vast majority of Cervantes's work was not in poetry, either. I think the idea is more "emblematic national storyteller" than poet in the narrow sense.

What on earth is "politically charged" or "inaccessible" about Frost or Ingalls Wilder? It's not like they threw in Gertrude Stein or William Gaddis.

And France has Molière, and Portugal has Camões...how many authors should be listed?

Heh, we're closer to the Beowulf poet than the Beowulf poet was to Homer.

The differences with bullying via social media are: the difficulty to escape it in space or time as well as its reach.

Just log off of Instagram / TikTok / wherever. Or block the people bothering you. If anything I'd say digital bullying is easier to escape because unlike school kids aren't required to be on those sites six to eight hours a day, and blocking someone needs a lot less effort and cooperation from adults than reporting them to school authorities.

Interesting reversal of the "think of the kids" argument, though: think of the kids who could have used their phones to document their mistreatment at the hands of alcoholic perverts.

Portable desalinators exist.

Humans aren't deterministic

Thus why we replaced computers (flesh and blood people writing out calculations) with computers (silicon-based number-crunching machines).

Yes. Potentially life-saving drugs in RCTs are usually compared to "standard of care," i.e. already-approved treatments, not to placebos.

The two feed into each other. "Publish or perish" ups the incentive to pump out shaky papers to pad resumes. LLMs make it easier to churn them out.

The sloppings will continue until morale improves.

American children are pretty hefty.

MRI uses RF wavelengths, which are measured in meters. Ultrasound waves are measured in fractions of a millimeter. Wavelength is not the relevant factor here.

The instinct of many people (myself included, a lot of the time) is "feed the AI the problems from the domains I'm least good at / familiar with" because those ones are the most frustrating and where I'm the most likely to spin my wheels. It's easy to imagine how this feeds into a cycle of "only put forth effort at things I'm already good at" and a consequent narrowing of professional / intellectual development.

The big ones (oriental, not German) unfortunately come into my house pretty regularly. Setting out poison helps but hasn't rid of us of all of them.

For me it's less fear than an instant "I must kill it / get it out of here" feeling. A big spider or centipede gives me a more intense "creepy crawly" shiver but a cockroach is way higher on the disgust scale for some reason.

The "writing part" is not neatly separable from the "ideas part," much as AI-writing defenders would like to pretend so.

If you're outsourcing your writing to AI, I assume you're outsourcing your thinking to it as well. And I don't really care what some weighted average of all human text written on the topic "thinks."

Precisely. "We're doing this with AI" reads as "we don't care enough about this to pay a person to do it."

Also his "Coding Train" videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain

Nice examples, I think I landed on that page quite a while ago. I love Processing and Perlin noise. One thing I enjoyed was using Perlin noise values to compute a "region" on the canvas and making the behavior of a particle depend on which region it was in. Examples:

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds1.png

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds2.png

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds3.png

The Processing code I wrote to make them is here: https://github.com/Brian-Fearn/Processing/blob/main/PerlinNo...

Got a Monty Python vibe: https://youtu.be/79TVMn_d_Pk?si=x2yAyxKNJDow8enp&t=124

I don't know, I was never one to "assign roles" to AI myself, but if it ends up working for some people in practice, then I guess it might be worth examining why.

Also Black Cube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube

It's from the old Tom Lehrer song, "Wernher von Braun."

I imagined it as kind of a shorthand for "you should be spending my tokens on looking for / addressing issues like X, Y, and Z," where X, Y, and Z are the sorts of things that an expert in [insert domain here] would be likely to care most about.

And then in a couple years the AI gets better at "using AI" than the bottom 99.999% of knowledge workers, who are now out of work.

Distilling the entirety of thousands of years of human intellectual output: totally cool.

Distilling the answers of one LLM: totally uncool.

Yeah, MS doesn't quite exemplify good-faith competitive spirit, does it?

Some people will probably be curious regardless of their environment but I think there are others who could be swayed into developing curiosity (or not) by life experiences. And an ever-present "just gimme the answer now" button could be a powerful force pulling them toward the "incurious" side.