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I think for some people it's an aesthetic knee-jerk reaction and the fact that it's "unusual" for a programming language. It's not like their brains "can't grok" -- it's just syntax after all. People don't tend to have that reaction to xml for some reason. It's data, so it gets a pass. But then this is code-as-data and they have to break that barrier conceptually and then get past the aesthetic knee-jerk reaction.

Ted Kaczynski specifically was advocating for primitivity, no?

Supposedly. If the productivity boost is good for commercial software it's good for open source.

I will attempt a reductio ad absurdum: why do anything other than print dollars then? Why farm? Why build anything? Why not just use the magic wand all the way?

Yeah casual extraordinary claim, I'm equally stumped.

also known as colonies

How nice! I've been mulling over doing exactly this for a while :D

Do you mean that, once on-boarded, crypto holders would only need to trade with fellow crypto holders?

I would be. It's much quicker to draw this than to write code for it.

Pleasantly surprised to see Tz on front-page for once rather than Ke.

no successful country in the whole continent

That's a glaring statistical aberration

Have you tried asking him nicely?

It's horrible. Yet somehow they still manage to hire and have a thriving company ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Seems to work for them.

backend-backend :D

eliminate poverty of all kinds

There was never a technical hurdle to this problem where a super-intelligent AI is what we need.

So pointing out that an LLM has trouble with some concept doesn’t mean anything.

Why? We do the same with children, animals, and people (with severe head trauma for example). Why should AI get special treatment?

We're happy to test if crows and dolphins can do arithmetic and just all sorts of cognitive hoops.

That's not good for the environment!

I’ve cut meat from my diet over these thoughts, it makes me want to be a slightly better steward of the other intelligences we’ve conquered.

I'm curious if you've made any changes to your life(style) to reduce the suffering of fellow human beings.

Nice :) Do you know any books or anything that address "programmability", as distinct from "computability"?

I've been mulling on it for a while now.

Computers lack non-monotonic reasoningas of now, you mean :D

This is a metal-level sentiment of the crude sentiments Dennis has already received, just more entitlement.

The article speaks of a part of the spirit of open-source, but that spirit can never supercede what a person does with something they've freely contributed without malice.

Makes you wonder who's head is really in the sand.

It would be fun to see one attempt a Gentoo install.

And it had to beat Java, Flash, etc to become the unified single language!

I see what you mean, that's thoughtful. Not what I meant though - it's not really about coordination bandwidth but rather the that we're not optimally building upon each other's work. We're siloed.

Don't think the mountains, or the oceans, or the deserts are an idyllic virginal untouched Eden. You're going to end up getting yourself killed like the Into the Wild guy.

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. One can think of wild places as paradise while taking the necessary precautionary measures to survive there. I've camped next to a lake with hippos in it that passed a few meters from me as they strode past at sunset. A cape buffalo has done the same thing. I know what these creatures are, I know to anticipate disaster. And yet these places are still the closest thing to paradise I've ever known.

I'm curious: Is "health tourism" a thing for Americans? Healthcare is extremely cheap where I live by comparison.

That's my take-away here too.

They'll likely bring interstellar guns, germs, and steel. And bibles/qur'ans.

As Carl Sagan noted, the opposite is equally amazing. Are we really all alone? Such a waste of space-time ;)