Repple (she/her)

That would be the best result if everyone just went back to static sites.

Nope, plantation house, single wall construction. The kind built by sugar plantation workers in Hawaii. Probably very easy to run things in comparison

My house in the US (>100 yrs old) had neither of those things when I bought it. I did add them (including dryer alongside my washer in kitchen), but only because I eventually had enough money that I could. I was fine without them.

I’d probably fall into the mechanist category but I don’t think tests as I understand your description would be sufficient. A giant lookup table defining my responses for every situation in my life would pass all tests of input > output but not be conscious.

I would say it’s in all likelihood about the physical processes that occur during the process of input > output that would define it.

Of course, I have no idea what consciousness actually is, but I don’t see any compelling evidence that the current models are anywhere near there.

I buy art directly from artists all the time. It may not be expensive one of a kind paintings, but a shirt directly from the designer of the print is something I’ve done several times this year. A record directly from the band who recorded it is something I’ve done probably a couple dozen times this year. Prints of paintings, posters directly from the artist. These are all things I get fairly regularly.

Am I allowed to complain now?

“The Enemy Within” is a good episode of Star Trek, and a good episode of Stargate. Why is it such a terrible fucking episode for the US?

I do agree it’s pretty helpful for remembering things I don’t use often or finding APIs for things I haven’t done before. Also not a bad rubber duck. Not worth burning the planet for, but smaller local models that can handle this job I’d be happy to have in my workflow

Every time I test and LLM solution and am pleased with how well it works, and I look at the code and it looks reasonable, it’s a lie. It may work, and even look okay, but unless the change was minuscule it’s always doing weird things when I look closely. By the time I’m done fixing the code I could have done it significantly faster myself.

Edit: in case anyone is wondering I only ever use frontier models (the anthropic and openAI ones), I have unlimited access to them from work and mandates to use them.