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I knew subvocalization would be the main way to talk to ais as soon as I read it in Alistair Reynolds books. I hope it could be done without any mouth movement by just microgestures soon.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:41AM (#50100074)
Why do americans insist on using philosophical terminology to mean its opposite?
Re:Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:26AM (#50083203)
Why are they calling it 'attention' if it's just a weighted average? Human attention is something very different.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:51AM (#49930546)
I love svelte, but I think in the world of agents programmer ergonomics is no longer relevant.
Re:We Write Code by Hand on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:53AM (#49788058)
njoy mhy hnnd crfhted proze
distillation is a human right
Re:The End of an Era on Friday July 31, 2026 @09:24AM (#49122839)
a great point, and I think a very rare one
I'm just paying for the domain...
Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Friday July 17, 2026 @01:58AM (#48943792)
I'm not sure how much does the total production of bicycles consume, but I don't see how it's relevant for the use.
Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:14AM (#48917727)
what do you mean, which tells are good writing practices?

as I see them they are all truly terrible even if authored by humans

Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:11PM (#48910864)
LLMs are bicycles for the mind, they do not think instead of you
Re:OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:58PM (#48875825)
where were you, when the gitwars began?
it isn't about avoiding all harm as sociallity itself is harmful, it's about software not hijacking/exploiting our cognition especially in times when this would mess with our development
Customized propaganda made for the individual is the only thing I'm afraid of. Right now its easy to avoid the farm trolls that harves boomers minds on facebook, but given the costs go down and tech improves, we each of us have a trollfarm working specifically for us and that would make it extremely hard to not get brainwashed.
yes I can't understand how anyone buys these
Re:The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:29PM (#48823271)
I have a phd in philosophy, but I think this is more like a return of the 'court philosopher' profession.
I tried this 5 years ago, haven't had a customer yet.
Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:06AM (#47740583)
something is wrong with gmail filtering, I had no problems for years but now my custom domain emails go to spam when sending to people I've been emailing all the time...
Re:I still prefer MCP over skills on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:20AM (#47715927)
MCP is too thristy
Re:The cult of vibe coding is insane on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:01PM (#47666201)
the simple truth is all code is garbage
Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:08PM (#47618814)
linkedin is full of dark patterns, it's really unfortunate it became the business default, all other social platforms get more criticism while being only a fraction as bad
people can have more than one problem
Re:The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:21AM (#47260783)
I'm selling hand-crafted template code if anoyne is interested.
the fight for privacy was lost in the 90s, it's time to move on
Re:Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:04AM (#47021915)
this is quite literally just coping and seething
Re:Eight More Months of Agents on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:21AM (#46960056)
yes, there is a very large increase in TUI tools
it's not about brain atrophy, it's skill atrophy
Re:All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025) on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:15PM (#46501603)
> indirectly harmful by training us to accept a synthetic reality where nothing can be trusted and everything must be questioned.

that's quite the definition of 'harmful'

Re:A website to destroy all websites on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:58AM (#46462492)
It's good to have private websites and keep them weird, but this will and can in no way change the internet in general, centralization of content is a very good feature, at least functionally it is necessary.

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