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Well there’s a headline that’s going to have a lot of sane comments under it.

I’m not even clear on how the bamboo is supposed to damage the data center.

Conversion from epub to txt is a highly lossy process, there’s a lot of formatting that gets thrown away.

Regardless of how individual ebook readers may display epubs a little differently, epub is an open format so I would recommend keeping it in that form at least for archival purposes.

To do what? They had established that he was performing activities that needed to be stopped, he’s not owed more time to do those activities in.

Neither are forklifts. It’s an analogy, not exactly the same thing.

As I said, I can write programs in assembly language. I have actually done so, small trivial ones. I’m not a businessman, I’m a programmer. But I use compilers basically all the time because it would be ridiculous not to.

If an AI is able to break something in a way that no human can fix then I suppose that’s a sign that AI has exceeded human capabilities. Do you think it’s there yet?

And yet the person with the forklift is moving more stuff than the guy who did it by hand could manage. The “over” in “over-reliance” is a subjective value judgment and I just don’t agree.

I’m not seeing the problem here. Technology is developed specifically for this purpose, to remove unnecessary burden from humans and enhance their capabilities. There’s nothing noble about laboring unnecessarily hard to accomplish goals in a suboptimal manner. I could write programs in assembly language but instead I use high-level languages and compilers. Does that result in over-reliance on compilers?

John Henry died in the process of “beating” the steam hammer and then got replaced anyway. Nowadays it’d be considered foolish to do that work by hand.

And I could manually relocate all the contents of a palette, too. Just not anywhere near as quickly and easily as I can with a forklift. The analogy is still apt.

I physically can’t refactor a codebase in 15 minutes.

And ever since I got a forklift my arm strength has gone down.

You didn’t read the article or choose whether to post it?

What, have a nuanced view? Impossible, must be a troll.

I was told we would always be able to tell.

Unreliable is still a step up from completely absent.

And I bet someone is using an obsolete LLM or is failing to format their inputs correctly somewhere in the world right now too. Doesn’t change the reality that’s in front of me.

And yet the LLMs that I use actually do distinguish, in my actual real life experience.

So you’re telling me the sky is orange while I’m literally looking outside the window and seeing that it is not.

That thing you’re calling a fact is not in fact a fact.

We’re already there. I explained how modern LLMs can figure it out if they need to. But people who don’t like AI aren’t paying attention to the state of the art so the criticisms tend to lag like this.

Famously, yes. Accurately, no.

This is like the “AI can’t draw hands” thing. It used to be a problem and was frequently called out as a tell or mocked, but most art generators do it fine nowadays and it isn’t called out so much any more. The strawberry problem will follow the same trajectory.

Except I also explained how modern LLMs get around that problem. They’re not actually that easy to trip up.