sorokod

people vote with their feet

With their reproductive organs more likely.

The JetBrains announcement:

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/06/kotlin-notebook-suns...

il y a 8 joursdiscuss

Gödel, Escher, Bach (1980, Pulitzer prize) was how I first got exposed to Gödel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

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il y a 9 joursdiscuss

Naming and shaming is a reasonable first step.

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il y a 10 joursdiscuss

Smart watches to watches are like smart TVs to TVs.

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il y a 11 joursdiscuss

The author seems to refere to software systems, code base and programs interchangeably.

We can choose human-comprehensible scopes and do that all the time with modules, packages,services, APIs.

In nobody understands it all , "it" is doing a lot of heavy lifting and given the choises we can make is wrong and should be resisted.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

This leads to the hard problem of probabilistic thinking which requires a lot more energy than black and white thinking.

You are overthinking this. Reality exists in a point in time and space, same point where you are. That is the only problem you face.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

novel is a bunch of words

or even a bunch of characters, bunch of pixels and so on.

To me this is the wrong level of abstraction that is not sufficient to encode the meaning of literature.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

"How do informational norms change when we’re all living in the same universal room?"

I different interesting question: why would we want to inhabit this universal room in the first place? The post mentions the idea of being "bigger than yourself" but to me the context collapse achieves the opposite - a sort of carboard caricature of oneself.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

This quote from Philip K Dick seems relevant:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

Possibly but this is not related to AI

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

Completely disable the usage of AI for time period t. Compare the impact on whatever before t and during t.

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il y a 19 joursdiscuss

Interesting topic, shame about the LLM phrasing.

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il y a 28 joursdiscuss

Then what is the point of ddalex?

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le mois dernierdiscuss

"computer" happened a while ago, it's usage predates the electronic computers as:

"a person who makes calculations, especially with a calculating machine."

Google ngram view:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=computer&year_...

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le mois dernierdiscuss

Nor the great bustards

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le mois dernierdiscuss

Likely to be classified as early 21st century religious artefact.

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le mois dernierdiscuss

More in the Guardian review of Morbid by Saul Justin Newman

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/17/morbid-by-saul...

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le mois dernierdiscuss

Can you share the source of the anecdote? I tried to find it in Zhuangzi and was not successful.