There are two kinds of learning: Reading and doing (and you need both). AI has been great for the reading half of learning, but has harmed the doing half of learning due to efficiency demands. We can still "do" in private, but no longer in our day-to-day.

How did you measure your learning?

Yeah it really depends on how it is used

"Would you tolerate" is kind of interesting phrasing.

It feels like there's no "one-size-fits-all" ideal level of intervention in a dysfunctional/repressive government. Sometimes if you just leave them alone, they "inevitably" liberalize, reaping the benefits. Sometimes if you just leave them alone they calcify, form coalitions, and actively interfere in Western democracies. Sometimes if you intervene a little, you can help support the people oust their rulers. Sometimes if you intervene a little, you just harm innocent civilians, and entrench the power of the regime. And so on and so forth for every possible level of intervention.

Sure, some of it is going to inherently depend on the actual level of the power disparity, on any counteracting support the regime is getting from your adversaries, on the particular details of your intentions and your intervention, on the timing, etc. But sometimes it really feels like nobody knows what they're doing with foreign policy, and sometimes you get lucky and the country where you literally nuke two major cities just sort of shrugs, shakes your hand, and becomes one of your closest allies with a great deal of goodwill between citizens, and on the other hand sometimes you put boots on the ground an funnel enormous sums of money and (at least hypothetically) try to maintain positive relationships with the locals in a huge nation-building project and after decades you end up with...nothing.

So, to go back to what you said, sometimes it feels like tolerating the fascist country in your backyard might be the best way to turn it into a non-fascist country. And, on the other hand, sometimes it might be the worst way. These things seem difficult.

Your comment implies that my post was my own opinion, where I was merely sharing what the USA position on Cuba has been.

If your definition of fascism includes the merger of corporate power with gov power, then the USA has met that definition for at least 30 years. So yes, I guess I've tolerated it in my backyard, as every American has.

The US has a long history of installing fascists in South America in the name of fighting communism.

> Would you tolerate a fascist country in your back yard?

do you even know anything about South American history?

the US literally installs fascists in those countries

The government was a customer that paid for a product/service. Are you saying all entities that sell to the government are being "propped up" by the government?

https://plugin.observer would come in handy for this.

Can't you run linux on a macbook pro?

I would not do that, mostly because Apple is, and always has been, doing what they can to create locked down platforms which are the antithesis of digital autonomy. Being able to run a different operating system is and never will be something they will actively support, and I will only expect that that possibility will go away in the future if they ever feel that it would threaten their amount of control. I will never transact with the company for that reason alone.

On M1 and M2 currently yes (M3 in progress). Check out the Asahi Linux project.

isn't asahi linux dead?

No not at all. Some of the original contributors stepped away, but they’re still active and have recently made a bunch of progress toward M3 support.

Their blog is quite active: https://asahilinux.org/blog/

Announcements have been quiet for a while because they have been focusing on upstreaming their kernel changes, but more recently they’ve been adding new features and working on new model support again.

not well

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It is, but making a change that doesn't mess up the balance of the game can be tricky.

Or "someone who would read a news article and be shocked/excited/moved by it right up until someone told them it was fake GenAI slop."

Apart from the fact that, yes, GenAI art is overwhelmingly shit and by definition derivative, it's also not unreasonable to not want to be lied to. People look for human connection. They like being lied to about human expression in a piece of art about as much as they like being catfished.

This is an incredibly cool idea. I'm gonna talk to my wife about doing this with my girls. Thanks for sharing!

Great to hear :) I hope it brings y'all much joy through the years!

Literally the first line of the article:

"Spending your tokens to support Django by having an LLM work on tickets is not helpful. You and the community are better off donating that money to the Django Software Foundation instead."

That's not telling people to not use LLMs. It's telling them that using them in a specific way is not helpful.

Reading beyond the first line makes it clear that the problem is a lack of comprehension, not LLM use itself. Quoting:

> This isn’t about whether you use an LLM, it’s about whether you still understand what’s being contributed.

Then they could just say "understand what's being contributed" and not have to mention LLMs by name at all. They are very clearly blanket discouraging people from using LLMs at all when contributing to their project.

LLMs are mentioned because they’ve lowered the bar for contribution. This is arguably a good thing with bad side effects, and that appears to be the argument being made.