Thousands of years of thinking about these issues, decades coming to hard grips with how little we understand, and LLMs drop like an atom bomb waking up every idiot on the planet who has naive things to say about consciousness. What's the motivation to talk so loudly and confidently about things one knows nearly nothing about?

Edit: I regret using the word "idiot" above. Nothing against the author's intelligence. Poor choice of words on my part. Naively presumptuous is closer to the mark.

On the Log Ride at Knott's Berry Farm they have infrared light beams above the log flume that trigger a loud pre-recorded "Sit down!" message if you raise your hands up too high.

It was so much fun in Jr High to try and set them all off.

Will this work for vim as well? would love to use it if it does.

It's interesting, this is where we're at:

1. english -> 2. programming language -> 3. machine language

We need step 2 right now because a human has to manually push text around to actually make it to step 3.

But programming langagues are for humans only; computers don't need them. So why should step 2 even exist in the future? Especially if a computer becomes capable of verifying it's ouput better than a human could.

Funny timing for me to see this on HN today

After some years of love/hate relationship with Vivaldi, I'm currently trying (once again...) to go back to Firefox after one too many chrome-based browsers fuck-up: opening Edge in a windows VM suddenly got my RAM usage up by 32GB, which were shared with my non-VM chrome-based browsers (chromium, vivaldi). First time just crashed my whole computer, second time I had to kill it all (the memory usage moved to chromium and then vivaldi when I closed the VM).

Vivaldi performance issues (and some bugs) was already putting me on the edge very often, but I really like the features so switching is very hard and will take a lot of time getting used to. Mouse gestures, panels, integrated mail (took way too long to come), tab stacking/tiling, command palette, etc. Sure some of these have firefox extensions doing something similar but it's still far from being the same.

We're all someones kid

Throughout history there are moments where humans realize they're not special in a way they previously thought they were — universe doesn't revolve around us, other animals possess skills we thought were unique to us, etc.

I think what's interesting is that many types of creativity may really just be re-synthesizing "stuff we already know."

So a lot of the negative comments along the lines of, "it can't be creative because it never thinks of anything beyond its training data" don't click with me. I think synthesizing two existing concepts into some third thing is actually a form of creativity.

These nets may not learn the same way we do exactly, and they may not possess the same creative abilities as us — but there's definitely something interesting going on. I for one am taking a Beginner's Mind view of it all. It's pretty fascinating.