Because we are currently living in an age of narcissism and tribalism / Identitarianism is the societal version of narcissism.
> Because we are currently living in an age of narcissism and tribalism
I've been saying this since at least 1200 BC!
Readit Newskhazhoux commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
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A staged "carjacking" that the police got lucky enough to "stumble upon" — the "victim" of which just so happened to be the DOGE employee known as "Big Balls" — isn't enough justification for the presence of the National Guard for you?
The “staged” part is speculation and not necessary. Even without that, we have federalization of a regional PD because one Republican was assaulted.
khazhoux commented on The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev/posts/2025... · Posted by u/Signez
> It entirely depends on the exposure and reliability the code needs.
Ahh, sweet summer child, if I had a nickel for every time I've heard "just hack something together quickly, that's throwaway code", that ended up being a critical lynchpin of a production system - well, I'd probably have at least like a buck or so.
Obviously, to emphasize, this kind of thing happens all the time with human-generated code, but LLMs make the issue a lot worse because it lets you generate a ton of eventual mess so much faster.
Also, I do agree with your primary point (my comment was a bit tongue in cheek) - it's very helpful to know what should be core and what can be thrown away. It's just in the real world whenever "throwaway" code starts getting traction and getting usage, the powers that be rarely are OK with "Great, now let's rebuild/refactor with production usage in mind" - it's more like "faster faster faster".
In one camp are the fast code slingers putting something quickly without long design and planning. They never get it just right the first few iterations.
So in the other camp you have seasoned engineers who will have a 5x longer design and planning process. But they also never get it right the first several iterations. And by the time their “properly-engineered” design gets its chance to shine, the business needs already changed.
khazhoux commented on AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing rakhim.exotext.com/ai-is-... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
khazhoux commented on AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing rakhim.exotext.com/ai-is-... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
I always appreciate our weekly Crankypants Take on LLMs.
> AI is not a triumph of elegant design, but a brute-force workaround
You can read and understand Attention Is All You Need in one hour, and then (after just scaling out by a few billion) a computer talks to you like a human. Pretty elegant, if you ask me.
> The web was supposed to evolve into semantically structured, linked, machine-readable data that would enable amazing opportunities.
I missed that memo. The web was, and forever shall be, a giant, unstructured, beautiful mess. In fact, LLMs show just how hopeless the semantic web approach was. Yes, it's useful to attach metadata to objects, but you will still need massive layering and recursion to derive higher-order, non-trivial information.
This entire article is someone unable to let go of an old idea that Did Not Work.
Because it's not published in a million other places? Because it's now officially not the law because it's not on this one particular website?
Come on people... you're being rage-baited to hell.
Obviously this has no legal bearing.
The question is why was this removed?
If a simple accident then this is a non-story.
If deliberate, then we must understand what was the chain of command and the motivation for deleting references to habeas corpus on this government website.
khazhoux commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan
Good for him. Unfortunately, though, what I have seen is that luminaries like this never match their external accomplishment once inside. I have names I saw firsthand but it would be rude to share.
A couple of exceptions come to mind. It seems Marc Levoy has been as effective pushing imaging technology inside BigCo's as he was at Stanford Research, e.g. But more often it's one-hit wonders.
In other words, I do not believe for one second that this farming operation was anything other than a sweatshop, with dangerous conditions and stolen pay. The look on the face of the farmer in the article adds no confidence that this is not the case. For those reading that do not believe that people work in these conditions, in the USA in 2025, then I suggest you do some homework.
You can’t actually tell anything at all about a person’s moral character from their facial expression.