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If it doesn't matter then it is not evolution, right?

Not everything; only 93% of humans have died, for example. Past != future.

Well, no. If I can get an LLM to write like Asimov, that's better than I will ever do, honest.

Yeah, for some of us, that is bad advice. The version I can most safely implement is, "Be your best self."

If you never used any particular tool, you probably wouldn't find it useful, right?

I asked Gemini about my unicycling this morning, and it coached me on weighting the seat; e.g., looking ahead instead of down helps unweight the pedals.

The title, for example, should likely be Nginx for Nerds, and that error was human, not AI, right?

So connecting with them on a call and cutting out the LLM was an error?

That's privacy.

When I can get an LLM to write like Isaac Asimov, I'll consider some artificial literary experiments; there were books I wanted him to have written that he did not get around to, quitting at 458.

Good for privacy and productivity.

Really? How do they distinguish perfect copies from originals?

I'm quick-witted, outspoken, playful, clever, apparently intelligent; Mensa, Colloquy, like that; not quite clever enough for the triple 9 societies. Morning pages readily enough dispel the illusion. Or coding. I scanned six years of morning pages into a PDF and fed it to Claude to distill for me; apparently, I have several thoughts per year. Damn, I'd hoped for more. Asking Claude Code to critique my code is, ah, good coaching. Ouch.

Kinda. Walking the dog with me this evening, Christa saw the license plate 8531 PRI and asked me if 8531 really was prime. The 2, 3, 5 checks are automatic, and 8531-8400 = 131, which obviously isn't divisible by 7, but I would've had to check the rest of the two-digit prime factors except 97 - 8531 is greater than 90 squared, less than 97 squared, though, I reckon. So I said I don't know. But Google would know, you know? If your LLM buddy is hanging out active on your phone all the time, it can - maybe not yet, but foreseeably - answer every question, no thought required, and carry out any expressed desire.

I'll note that having countless superintelligences handy will accelerate problem-solving e.g. dystopia.

A couple of possibilities spring to mind. Likelier that Karen lied, but maybe the 512 page fax changed the system.

You mean, Karen lied?

I'm old. Back in the olden days - the 1900s - 2-ton cars were not lightweight, the so-called heavy Chevys.

Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "internet psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death...

Small? GPLv3 is ~5644 words, and not particularly long for a license.

Sturgeon's Law predates LLMs by decades: 90% of everything is crap.

Fair use?

No, it isn't, wealth is good. More readily creating and delivering value is good.

Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.

Fixed goals and flexible tactics, I say. PG comes along and says it much better...

N = 100000 prime = [False, True] * (N // 2) primes = [] for i in range(3, N, 2):

    if prime[i]:
        primes.append(i)
        k = i ** 2
        while k < N:
            prime[k] = False
            k += i * 2

useful = [ str(i) for i in primes ]

# Enter your clues

for i in useful: if i[0] == '6' and ('3' in i) and len(str(i)) == 5: print(i)

Or 5.

Nice solver! I did optimize the sieve a little...

N = 100000 primes = [False, True] * N // 2 for i in range(3, N, 2):

    if primes[i]:
        k = i ** 2
        while k < N:
            primes[k] = False
            k += i * 2