sinedpick

joined 1 year ago
[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

Dude, if you have a degree in econ I think your uni should lose its accreditation. I am dead serious.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago (23 children)

You have zero understanding of cause and effect or you are looking at this conflict through a pinhole. Stop supporting and lapping up the propaganda of genocidal settler-colonialists like an useful idiot. Learn history and have some morals.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 22 points 8 months ago (30 children)

It must be so exhausting to carry water for a settler-colonial ethnostate whose very foundations are genocidal violence.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

hey, you banned me from r/badphil for arguing that LLMs don't have feelings. I probably was being an ass but the username/sub combo in your message triggered the memory.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

More details on the rust thing? I can't find it by searching keywords you mentioned but I must know.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Solving the is-ought problem is super easy when you change what "ought" means.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 1 points 10 months ago

The first footnote makes me want to give myself a lobotomy with a no. 2 pencil:

I wish to note here that Richard took this “as evidence that John would fail an intellectual turing test for people who have different views than he does about how valuable incremental empiricism is”. Of course I couldn’t just ignore an outright challenge to my honor like that, so I wrote a brief reply which Richard himself called “a pretty good ITT”.

If this guy doesn't masturbate his successful polemicizing every 1.5 paragraphs, he'll go into septic shock.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

More like "People want things and hurt if they don't get them. Also, look at me saying things like utility function! Function is math! Math is smart. I am smart! Isn't that so cool?"

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would do you a lot of good to actually read about communism and political theory in general instead of acting as a conduit of brain rot.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a nixos fanatic, thank you very much! I even installed nixos on my (non-technical) SO's computer. Was this a mistake? Yes. Do I care? no.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Random musings but I feel like posting: I almost got sucked into the urbit hole. I thought it was such a cool idea and implementation, and all the fun names and technical purity was so attractive to me at age 18 (this was before the crypto circus and urbit barely did anything except talk to a terminal).

It took me a while to realize that there is, actually, zero reason to give nonsensical names to literally every aspect of software, and also pretty dumb to try to shoehorn everything through a tiny functional core ("Nock") while slowly re-learning all the lessons of 50 years of compiler development. So why use it at all?

Using urbit over a normal Linux stack comes purely with downsides. Slow, buggy, obscurantist, and so on. This means whoever actually dedicates their precious time to developing this unconditionally buys into the ideology. I never thought an ideology could be so powerful that it could corrupt the minds of my people (software monkeys).

Urbit is a truly fascist^H^Hnating phenomenon.

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