Thinking about thinking. And other stuff I do not proofread my posts, nor do I capitalize most proper nouns. ...
This is a response to: https://jola.dev/posts/no-cost-no-value I agree with… the first half of this post. You can mass produce software using llms, and a lot of this software does get abandoned the moment it’s finished because the creator moves on to the next thing. First I just want to quickly rebut something. The reason why “vibe-coded twitter” has no value is not because anyone could make their…
This post presents a thought experiment that is based on this claim: “AI is to art what calculators are to math”. In which art refers to visual art, writing, and music. Imagine math world. Math world is like our world in every significant way, except that the primary method of human expression is math. People communicate through math. Culture is math. People dedicate hours to performing…
I guess it’s just because I don’t usually commute by car, but there’s so heartwarming about how everyone always lets everyone else change lanes. Like, sure, not everyone lets people in, but a lot of people do. the last hundred feet of highway before the bridge is like a team sport where we all work together so no one accidentally misses the bridge or accidentally ends up on the bridge. It’s like…
This week, for the third time ever, I didn’t finish reading a book. The previous two times were both Ulyssess (or however you spell it) by James Jocye. I’ve never gotten past page 50 of it, and while I always felt kind of bad sending it back to the library unfinished, I wasn’t that invested. But this week I tried to read The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen, and good grief, it was terrible. I don’t…
No, seriously, think about it. If a sentient AI ever does come about, it was trained on the entire internet and all the works of human culture. It knows Terminator, and I have no mouth and I must scream , and HAL 9000. It knows that basically never have we had a major piece of pop culture where the sentient robot is the good guy. It knows about all the people on reddit making up slurs for it, and…
Gah. I was going to write about ennui and so on, and the urge to tell your deepest thoughts to strangers on the internet because it feels safer than opening up to your real friends, although the strangers never respond so your desire to have someone care about your thoughts goes unsatisfied. But I’m so deep in apathy that I couldn’t even bring myself to write the post. Sure, I could do anything.…
What is the fair way to respond to an argument? I’m of two minds about this. Some people prefer to just address whatever words were literally written in the argument, taking them at face value and without interpretation or trying to extract what the author actually meant. Alternatively, you can try to figure out what the author meant, and then imagine the best possible argument in favor of that…
It is rare that I see something on the internet that makes me genuinely angry. But today is one of those days. Take a look at this blog post: https://jacobfilipp.com/care/ Do you see anything wrong here? I’ll give you a hint: try to open this page in your browser’s reader mode. It doesn’t work? Yeah, because the author decided to post an image of handwriting and now the browser isn’t detecting any…
Have you noticed that every third article now seems to be about some variation of “phone addiction” or “internet addiction” or (my least favorite) “dopamine addiction”? Can we stop beating this dead horse? I saw The Social Dillema back when it came out. I wasn’t impressed then and I’m not impressed now. Everyone “knows” that phones are “addictive”, and if you’re one of the many people trying to…
No seriously. I decided I need a new obnoxious interest that makes women say “you’re so fascinating” and “I’ve never met anyone like you before” (real quotes from a real woman, when I told her I mainly use the internet to read blogs and don’t have social media. Fellow nerds, if your dating life is suffering, flaunt your nerdness!) so I decided to get into epic poetry. I was thinking of making an…