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Comment Re:We know how, just don't want to. (Score 1) 149

Cashless bail: you are conflating two things: wealth (cash) and bail (freedom while awaiting trial). Making sure only people with access to money can be free while awaiting findings of guilt or innocence is unjust. Putting the average person away for 6 months means losing apartment, possessions, job, everything. Keeping people under lock and key who seem likely to offend or flee seems reasonable. I'd suggest splitting the two ideas, rather than just furthering the preservation of an underclass. I don't think a reasonable person could put himself in a judge's shoes and answer "should this person be released?" with "is it OJ or just some schmuck?"

Comment Bezos paper explains data centers fine actually (Score 1) 91

WAPO offers "a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation."
Translation: stop worrying about the power bill you can no longer afford and go buy a car you can no longer afford so that we can improve AI enough to make literally everything "something you can't afford". Now *that's* innovation.

Anybody remember where we put those damned pitchforks? Democracy Dies in Darkness; who knew it was a mission statement?

Comment Brought to you by the letter K (Score 1) 116

While it's easy to see Dell has chasing Apple here, I think there's a larger sense in which both companies are chasing our emerging K-shaped economy. Apple has a 17e iPhone line that is really quite surprisingly good for the price point, while at the same time introducing a foldable phone that'll likely come in at about 2K. Their laptops likewise are now split into high and low end. It's an effective way to draw a broad swath of folks at the growing lower SES tier to cover their bread-and-butter basic subscriptions revenue, while still capturing the whales.

Comment Dawkins has a rather consistent point of view (Score 1) 403

Man, I remember when Selfish Gene made its way into my hands, in the late 70's. A real "Chapman's Homer" moment for me. Led me later into a thesis on genetic algorithms. But along with that comes ... a rather mechanistic point of view, consistent with his later writings on religion.
While I'm not on board with Claude being in a class with humans, or cats for that matter, I think critics here might be missing a point, not about how Dawkins views LLMs so much as how he views humans. P-zombies is likely an overstatement, but don't expect him to require a 'ghost in the machine' to call Claude "conscious".
IMO, he isn't just inflating LLMs' abilities. He's coming in from a POV that humans aren't all that.

Comment Re:Just means none of the experts cared enough (Score 1) 94

My Erdos number was something I felt put me in a very exclusive club (my field is CS, btw)! Only a select few ... wait a second. The whole thing about Erdos numbers is that they're the expression of how common those interconnections are :-)
Like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, the net is huge!

Comment Re:I have _never_ had colleagues ... (Score 1) 59

It's like there's 10 of me, well rested and in distraction free speed typing mode, and I'm a seasoned and experienced senior webdev who still loves his job.

I've had a similar experience! It's like there's a dozen SWEs working shoulder to shoulder.

  • Nine are just brilliant.
  • One's badly hung over and has just rejiggered the tests specifically to 'solve' an error in the code.
  • One has apparently just had his first hit of X, and wants to tell me how great he thinks I am and that all my stupid ideas are genius.
  • The last one occasionally just fucks off somewhere and all the work stops until he's 'up' for it again.

Genuinely, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have on a rather massive personal project I'm working on without AI, but I've also spent a stunning time backing out some ... idiosyncratic? ... rust code.

Comment Re:Not even the worst part ... (Score 1) 95

That's not what I am seeing.

Funny, I'm seeing that a lot in the comments; I'm on 26.1; perhaps a fix awaits in 26.2 :-)

I find the behavior inconsistent on 26.1. With the window *definitely* in focus, I still can move the cursor from outside the window slowly through the corner into the window with no change. The misbehavior seems more consistent outside->in rather than vv.

I mostly did user interface work prior to retirement ... weird behavior is par for the course!

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