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Seemingly benevolent robot. Dev lead for CLR assembly loading, trimming, Native AOT at Microsoft, ex-C# compiler & language design.

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interfluidity, to random

a thing i don’t get is what is new. i mean, computers have long been much, much “smarter” than humans in, for example, their ability to perform arithmetic, or to remember things. recent AI tools are interesting for sure, but what superior competence of theirs makes these new systems so threatening, compared to older superior competences?

agocke,
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@interfluidity many people believe facility with language is the essence of human cognition. Rather than reevaluate that belief, they have decided that LLMs are super human.

agocke,
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@interfluidity I would argue an abacus kind of refutes that. I really am not sure what's particularly divergent about human cognition. It seems like it combines a lot of things.

agocke,
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@interfluidity that said, there is particularly interesting kernel of insight -- if LLMS do represent something closer to how we think, we know intelligence arose in an undirected random process (evolution) in relatively small time scales, so the search space can't be that big. There is a chance we are not far from human cognition, whatever its essence is. I still think the main question is whether or not LLMs actually represent how we think.

agocke,
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@interfluidity don't all computers?

agocke,
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@interfluidity the Wittgenstein answer would probably be: this is an artifact of our use of language, and not a real question. Our notion of "think" is an element in a language game that only takes meaning in context

zachleat, to random
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Currently fawning over @preact/signals-core, a tiny signals implementation that can be used independently of the (P)react ecosystem 🏆

https://github.com/preactjs/signals

Preact is a treasure and I would love to see more zero-dependency utilities like this please and thank you.

agocke,
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@zachleat Is that good or bad?

codinghorror, to random

Can we please for the love of god stop collectively pretending Adderall isn’t meth?

agocke,
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@kencrandall @timbray @codinghorror ? Doesn't it? If the drug is producing more positive side effects than negative, isn't that entirely what makes it right?

agocke,
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@codinghorror @film_girl @mrj @leedohm I don't really understand this structure. If it turns out that there's a drug that cures Alzheimer's also gets you really high, we don't get to send it back to the universe and demand a different one. We just get to decide whether it's legal to cure Alzheimer's, or what restrictions are put in place.

agocke,
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@film_girl @codinghorror @leedohm @mrj I don't really understand why those things are a cheat code at all. For many people it comes naturally.

agocke,
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@film_girl @leedohm @codinghorror @mrj so if the smartest person in the world takes amphetamines, it's a cheat code because it's beyond normal human performance, but it anyone else does, it's not?

SeaRyanC, to random

I've been thinking about covariance/contravariance too hard and now I'm at the point where I'm like, I think the Wikipedia article could be more technically precise about this

agocke,
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@SeaRyanC Like, a more precise specification of the inference rule for type constructors?

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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🌶️ Hot Friday Take: should make Task transparent and let you async/await without it contaminating the entire codebase.

This would be a breaking change, but make it easier for folks coming from other languages. Maybe in .NET 37

agocke,
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@khalidabuhakmeh @KirillOsenkov I think we should put async into the runtime, and use this syntax as the indicator

khalidabuhakmeh, (edited ) to programming
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With primary constructors added to classes and structs in C# 12 and 8, I am not sure why records exist anymore (other than equality implementations).

Anyone else have thoughts?

agocke,
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@khalidabuhakmeh public by default

timbray, to random
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I am severely depressed this morning, having read quite a bit of commentary along the themes of https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110273898008692780 and https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110272951321280411 and https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/110279629026079568

Feelings of failure. Nothing insightful to add.

agocke,
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@timbray Twitter sucked in 2010. It's not about hitting a home run on your first at-bat, it's about continuing to swing

agocke, to random
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