such a great summary of what "poverty of the stimulus" means and the kicker:
> That the model, training within a restricted hypothesis space, requires as much data as it does is an indictment of the commonsense view of the POSA and the usage-based response via LLMs.
I don't love that some high-paid, public-facing careers essentially have no standards attached to what they do other than "never acknowledge mistakes or limitations."
murderers still sailed on
i know they kept some gibbons awake playing basketball for five days straight without any ill effects but at this point i would do virtually anything in order to get some sleep
(reading hemingway was not enough)
increasingly convinced the problem isn't that there *is* AI but that there are so few real humans left
speaking of which, i think some starlings might be trying to nest in that spot above the chicken coop again
remember you can always burn Shein clothes for petroleum
once again, something about open universes vs closed ones, too distracted trying to get this fire going right now to think about it more closely
i think this could have been a lot more fun if it was samples of haskell code written by people vs those written by claude. to make it the same, you have to take haskell code written by *really good* but very distinctive* haskellers.
*blood meridian? come on man
but we associated this with republicans most -- now this was democrats!
when we talk about the difference between Europe and here, this is part of it. Europe has protected their working class better, not perfectly but better. american "elites" are purely hostile towards those who keep the lights on
similarly, like most of my unionized brothers and sisters, when clinton signed nafta i took it as the government issuing the final death blow to unionized labor. the government was always hostile to unions; we have a long history of violent strikebreaking.
for instance if i tell you my working class neighbors think (illegal) immigration lowers wages for the bottom tiers of the working class, you will say they are dumb. but plenty of educated professionals also know there is some truth to it.
www.kansascityfed.org/research/eco...
"educated professionals" are plenty dumb about a lot of stuff, and the "dumb" people they laugh at are quite smart about some things, just things the "smart people" don't happen to care about. only being smart in the approved ways counts for anything. it's a significant problem with the culture.
mulch is a very fraught subject here, because too often it just creates more habitat for the vile, garden-devouring slugs
when i have people over, i try to accommodate their preferences, no matter how much trouble it is, but you can't really do it at a thing like this because there are many different families with their own peculiarities. nevertheless i have spent all morning considering my obligations as Snack Mom.
anyway i have snack duty for the 4-H meeting tonight and i made sourdough chocolate chip cookies -- they have a little sugar, and they are not gluten free, so some children will not be allowed to have them, and no one will understand the connection between that and their felt "lack of community"
i am aware of food-pickiness trends of my community so when i am going to have someone over or take food to an event i generally will avoid seed oils, food dyes, etc but then someone comes over who won't let her kids eat *any* sugar -- except honey or maple syrup which is "not sugar" ok sure
proud to have raised two children who will eat any food given to them, with joy and gratitude, as it should be. my younger son still doesn't like raw tomatoes, but he'll eat around them without saying a single word about it.
hospitality isn't only a matter of obligations for the host; the guest also must be appropriately responsive to hospitality. one reason it has become impossible these days to be casually hospitable is no one can be relied upon to eat whatever food is given to them.
they're great!
steve daines has decided not to run for reelection as a senator from Montana, and i like to think it has to do with the number of times i have called his office in anger, please do not disabuse me
moral objections to the trump administration feel this way, too, but it doesn't mean i'm going to stop making them
oh no
trying so hard to get this guy to start a philosophy of technology newsletter with me
nothing ever makes me feel so incompetent as this does
this is the second time in a 2-week period, too. just keep that in mind if it seems like i'm crying for no reason.
last night when i went to bed, i was tired and i was also sleepy. i had exercised and been out in the sunshine during the day. i had not been looking at my phone near bedtime. &c.
yet i did not fall asleep. at all. all night.
how does this happen? how can my body simply fail to do this thing?
i have lived in Great Falls, and believe me, it is eastern Montana
this is so messed up. the only correct answer to where "eastern Montana" starts is the Rocky Mountain Front.
there are absolutely no stakes here, but, still, i am now looking askance at every Montanan wondering if they were one of the idiots who picked Billings or Continental Divide.
right now the hens are out in the garden shredding last year's fallen leaves and dead plants so they will rot into the soil more quickly, relieving us of the work of doing that ourselves
