Same reason Batman survives injuries that would be fatal to a normal person and why the thugs he beats up never die: the DC universe is just built different.

Me and my 9 disembodied heads judging people that don’t learn an adhoc functional programming language solely so they can run Linux

Followed quickly by “vibe bankruptcy proceedings”

NixOS is a dangerous drug, but at least it’s a drug without side effects, since Nix is purely functional.

I remember when Steam came out and everyone hated it because of how slow and buggy it was. Crazy how times have changed.

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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

Perfect companion to somebody with resting bitch face.

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.

You’d love vbscript: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2202869