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Point of clarity: my </sarc> remark was not in reference to the original post and project (which I love!).

It was in reference to this comment (which I should have pasted):

Yeah this $100k system with all its expensive add ons is there to push a single button

IMHO lossy/lossless feels like the wrong term to use for natural-language text.

Every time natural-language passes from one human to another whether verbally or in the written word, there is a greater than zero percent chance that the meaning will be received/understood in a way that is "lossy" compared to the communicating party's intent. The so-called "telephone game" is a very good example of this.

It seems true that the lossy problem arises even without any LLMs or any intentional transformations.

Lossless in other domains basically means perfect-fidelity carried across copies. Natural language seems almost incapable of this ideal.

This is an AI app from the 1950s! Developed by Rube Goldberg who fully intended to vibe code the scoring part later. </sarc>

I loved this piece. The value is in the abstract concepts NOT in specific cases people are posting.

It is about the deliberate management over one's own internal state which is the only thing one has true control over.

Resentment, especially so-called justified-resentment literally steals from other parts of my life experience that are not connected in any way to the person, place, thing or situation that I am feeling resentment towards.

It is ultimately a choice but not an easy or obvious choice.

Every decision I ever make no matter how trivial it seems, has an associated sacrifice connected to it. Much of the time I want to think and act as if this were not the case.

This piece is a little odd for me. I don't understand the logic behind this:

"read Kant and found it to be dense and impenetrable...an AI generated summary would have helped"

followed by "Would it have improved comprehension? No."

Why? Because "research says so."

Wut?

(still waiting for one or more HN commenters to freak out because the article has gasp! multiple em-dashes)

Hey, there are some AI-affirmative people in Marin County (949).

This takes me back to the frustrations of trying to record band rehearsals in small spaces using the built-in-mic (a very long time ago).

Poor fidelity of cassette tape medium was the least of the issues. The biggest problem was the built in mic's inability to handle the overall volume.

Lots of experimentation with placement of the recorder (and thus mic) within the rehearsal space would eventually yield results that were no longer useless -- but still pretty, pretty bad. I do not miss cassette.

To be honest I don't really even miss analog -- but this comes to down convenience and flexibility rather than fidelity comparisons.

Said another way: there are no analog DAWs (a redundant and captain-obvious statement, I do realize).

The price + graphics and sound (out-of-the-box) was what really made the difference for me and self-learning.

But I learned a lot more about disk data organization (hardware-level) via the Apple IIs that were at school.

An interesting side-note: a major factor in my family's decision to get me any computer at all was that I was staying after school almost everyday until usually 7pm.

Mom thought surely I must be lying about it and doing something else, probably nothing good.

She made a appointment to meet with the Computer teacher to ask him directly: he confirmed that I was there regularly, had keys for the computer room, and that maybe she should consider getting me my own machine for home.

Apple and Google (via smartphones) are in literally everyone's pocket.

Running KIMI on a phone is not possible today and I agree with you that it will "probably be years before..." it is.

But how many years do you guess? I personally do not think it will take even 10 years for the situation to be commonplace.

While I agree that this phrase is most commonly spoken in a figurative sense, folks with marginal heart health have a much greater than 0% chance of having something of this nature trigger an actual heart attack.

For anything below a Trillion, you should just take it out petty-cash. </sarc>

My sympathies -- I know I would be overcome with panic in such a situation.

I am curious how many of you other C64 greybeards got exposed to a language called COMAL (not a typo) on the C64 back in the day?

making strategic decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks

I would give you +100 for that if I could.

Very well-played (and worded). I think I'm going to steal that one.

I wanted an Apple II so badly and thought I was getting the short-end-of-the-stick with a C64 but I am so happy (to this day) that my first machine at home was C64.

I still have my tattered C64 Programmer's Reference Guide on my shelf (as well as Programming the 6502 by Rodnay Zaks).

Because if healthcare makes a big mistake, they cannot ship a hotfix update to bring a person back to life?

Starring a very young and beautiful Cybill Shepherd as well as Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Eileen Brennan, and Randy Quaid.

Well I guess that's the end of getting a warning instead of ticket when driving a rental car in another US state from the one I live in.

Wow that very long series of pivots in the same messaging space is eye-opening and disheartening. It is hard to believe. Thank you for sharing that.

Got burned by this when I was wanting to uninstall MS Office from my laptop recently.

Filtering with string "office" turned up nothing in the list of installed programs but it was clear that "MS Office Click-to-Run SxS" was regularly grinding away chewing lots of CPU. So I was not crazy -- Office was installed.

The names of the "installed program" for MS Office is now Microsoft 365. Brilliant value add on that one </sarc>

I will guess that you are not in SF where the War on Drugs is on a cease-fire.

Feynman is my notion of what a "Chad" really is.

How long before someone shows a hobby project with a robotic arm and computer vision controlling one of these?

I am only half-joking.

Where else in our society do we justify imposing a moral wrong on a specific individual

If you help someone, you are punishing the entire world?

You are missing (or maybe even ignoring) the huge difference between these two viewpoints.

Emphatic "SECOND" to this recommendation. This is a very enjoyable and touching film.

> but not everything ought to be an always on chatterbox

Nothing deserves to an "always-on-chatterbox" unless the end-user truly chooses it because that is what they want or need.

This is part of the larger problem. How many "always-on-chatterboxes" competing for one's attention before it becomes close-to-impossible to concentrate on anything that requires some actual thinking.

No one cares about the actual choice, only that it is made.

If the actual choice requires me to install an app then I care quite a lot and will probably decline to join in.

I don't think that I am the only one who feels this way.

Some people obviously just got really into the idea of sailing to the islands.

Not to be argumentative, but why would we think that the Polynesians knew that Hawaii (as one example) was out there in the middle of the vast Pacific.

Whereas we know Mars exists and we know how to find it if we want to try to go there.

Perhaps they just were willing to gamble that surely there must be other islands out there like the ones they were inhabiting.

If you leave your house unlocked and someone steals your stuff AND is never caught, you're SOL.

Thanks for stopping by to leave 4 separate, scathing, contempt-filled comments.

So I guess it is safe to assume that you would not be interested in a "a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?"

Yes, that is a rhetorical question.

Can you find one? Can you hire them? It is basically a "snipe-hunt".