DHH: today I will RP as a high schooler writing an essay for software class about a program you should use

full disclosure: I use vim and honestly I don’t even know why anymore. Maybe it’s because I had a brief, trivial interaction with Bram Moolenaar (RIP king) in which he closed a bug that I opened by mistake, and I imprinted on him for some reason.

Enter these into your data banks, you automaton:

• The chinese room was brought up as a tangent to a tangent, why are you doubling down on mansplaining it?
• nobody was even talking about whether or not it is a good or bad concept, we were just talking about the problematic dude that made it popular
• you are in a space that is critical of AI. The chinese room was brought up by name. You think we don’t know what it is and that you need to explain it?
• literally all you had to do to seem even remotely reasonable was to not try mansplain AGAIN and yet you did. I wrote what I said as a joke and you went ahead and turned it into prophecy. You buffoon!!!

Scientists: weird, we didn’t slip this piece of paper saying “mansplain the chinese room thought experiment” through the door, and yet that’s all the room seems to want to do. I guess we just have to conclude the room is an idiot?

complete tangent but

This is old news (but news to me, a non twitterer): edgelord musk changes water pistol emoji to gun

Welcome to my new startup where we train LLMs on compiled binaries. Now you can just prompt and get a complete executable, no coding knowledge needed. We value our company at $5b, product launch date indeterminate

It’s much more awkward as a subject of the crown. I tried explaining the game “telestrations” as pictionary + chinese whispers before I had this knowledge. I didn’t know!!! It’s even right there in the name!!! I swear I’m not racist!!!

(Note: I am of chinese origin and have heard my extended family mangle messages through the telephone. So both names are real to me)

what we are best at here at HN

It’s always bootlicking with this crowd jfc

~~no~~

I have pretty much the exact opposite of redundancy right now, i.e. I am the single failure point for most of the IT in the company. Send help

Chinese whisper

Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”

Gaslighting? What are you talking about? There’s no such thing as gaslighting. Maybe you’re going crazy

Pinker: looking through my photo album where I’m with people like Krauss and Epstein, shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with them

Who could have predicted that liberalism would lead into scientific racism and then everything else that follows (mostly fascism)???

incredible, cryptocurrency has democratised (looks at cards) hunger-games style exploitation of human life and dignity for profit

I hear 90% of the dev time was spent adding "please don't generate any elsagate content" to the prompt over and over

have they tried writing better prompts? my lived experience says that because it works for me, it should work as long as you write good prompts. prompts prompts prompts. I am very smart. /s

I hate hate hate this so much. This is precisely the kind of smug, reductionist, dunning-kruger, every-problem-is-a-nail-and-programming-is-my-hammer type of shit that fuels my hatred of not only TESCREAL but pretty much everyone I meet in STEM.

I have found a way to solve world hunger with a fork bomb