Small correction: AI was not invented and it did not arrive.

it's physically painful for me to stop talking about my topic

it's physically painful for everyone else to listen to you talking about your topic.. if you talk for too long that is. :)

The (in)famous astronomer Tycho Brahe died from a bladder infection after politeness prevented him leaving the audience on such an occasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Illness,_death,_an...

Indeed! It's said that no talk should be longer than a microcentury.

https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf

https://susam.net/microcentury.html

Nice one! I would've said half a microcentury would be the perfect limit for most school lectures, but for an engaging talk a full microcentury would be acceptable :-)

> if you talk for too long that is

I've made that mistake. Talking for longer than 50 minutes is a bad idea.

That’s funny because I get dementia every time I have to use my debit card. No matter how many times I think I know where it is, it isn’t there.

It's certainly a problem when circular investment structures are used to get around legal limits on the amount of leverage or fractional reserve, or to dodge taxes from bringing offshore funds onshore.

Plenty of sneaky ways of using different accounting years offshore to push taxes forward indefinitely too, since the profit is never present at the year end.

Because discounted dollar bills are still a tangible asset, but churning language models are intangible?

To say the even quieter part out loud, datacenters are colonial encampments (like energy projects). Space has no indigenous people to colonize.

Ok, but couldn’t you equally say that about anything constructed by industrialized people in places that used to have lots of non-industrialized people?

Yes. Industrialisation and its aftermath has been quite gruesome for a very long time.

There's only one electron. It looks like separate ones because it's traveling backwards and forwards in time.

For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

it's not surprising that you've picked up some unsubstantiated protestant dogma disguised as economic theory, if you are hanging out on facebook neighborhood groups

smh, keyboard warriors with no background in tailoring deciding whether the emperor has clothes or not

Designing a system with deterministic behavior would require the developer to think. Human-Computer Interaction experts agree that a better policy is to "Don't Make Me Think" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think

That book is talking about user interaction and application design, not development.

We absolutely should want developers to think.

As experiments like TFA become more common, the argument will shift to whether anybody should think about anything at all.

What argument? I see a business model here, not an argument.

I meant "the discourse", "the conversation we are all having", interpreting the experiment in TFA as an entry in that discourse.

This is such a massive misunderstanding of the book. Have you even read it? The developer needs to think so that the user doesn't have to...

My most charitable interpretation of the perceived misunderstanding is that the intent was to frame developers as "the user."

This project would be the developer tool used to produce interactive tools for end users.

More practically, it just redefines the developer's position; the developer and end-user are both "users". So the developer doesn't need to think AND the user doesn't need to think.

I interpreted it like "why don't we simply eat the orphans"? It kind of works but it's absurd, so it's funny. I didn't think about it too hard though, because I'm on a computer.

..is this an AI comment?