Surprisingly well-received by hackernews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053328
The main objection being along the lines of, "Friedman's "I am not a racist" tshirt is raising many questions that are answered by his tshirt."
An image of a Github-themed restaurant that serves poop burgers.
I love how Wells has given us both a great series of stories AND a jokey terminator analog to diffuse the mAnLy trope of building and/or fighting terminators.
zbyte64 gave a great answer. I visualize it like this:
Writing software that does a thing correctly within well defined time and space constraints is nothing like climbing a smooth gradient to a cozy global maximum.
On a good day, it's like hopping on a pogo stick around a spiky, discontinuous, weirdly-connected n-dimensional manifold filled with landmines (for large values of n).
The landmines don't just explode. Sometimes they have unpredictable comedic effects, such as ruining your weekend two months from now.
Evolution is simply the wrong tool for the job.
IWW intensifies
A lawyer who depends on a sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from a sovereign citizen.
If it makes you feel better, I've heard good folks like Emily Bender of Stochastic Parrots fame suggest confabulation is a better term. "Hallucination" implies that LLMs have qualia and are accidentally sprinkling falsehoods over a true story. Confabulation better illustrates that it's producing a bullshit milkshake from its training data that can only be correct accidentally.
It's soooo bad. Could it be a cry for help?
Self-licking ice cream cone As A Service
(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)
Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:
I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi
"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect
Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:
tldr; got $40k drained just now
i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.
Absolutely!
The thing about sov cits is that they use legalish words like a magical incantation. The words have no meaning to them, really. It's a tarted-up glossolalia which reifies their wishes to manifest some outcome in court.
If a lawyer surrenders their craft to a bullshit engine, they're doing the exact same thing: spouting law-shaped nonsense in the hope of getting the verdict they want, their only differentiator being that they showed up wearing a much nicer suit than the sov cit.