2. The organization was to the point (eg it described what this is and who would use it up front). I can't say I found the prose "appealing" -- about the best I can say is that it was so obviously LLM writing that it implicitly told me that this is most likely a large mostly unattended porting project, which helped me set my expectations accordingly. Note that this is also why I stopped after getting a good feel for what it all is; the project would be interesting if I had a need to make something with that exact style of UI, but otherwise there wasn't going to be some shiny new idea or brilliant perspective that I could apply more widely.
3. Partly. It was a wall, but not that impenetrable a wall. There's plenty worse, and it was broken up enough for me to get through. Things were signposted well enough for me to skip a lot of what wasn't relevant to me.
4. Oh, absolutely. See above.
I'm finally growing the ability to extract value even after detecting that text is in the en-SLOP locale. Originally I couldn't detect it, then I could and couldn't tolerate it, now I'm starting to be able to treat it like broken English or caveman speak. I have to work to extract value, albeit a different type of work than those two.
It's mostly about suppressing my reactivity to the choppy phrasing and braggadocio (which are both the results of reinforcement training to elicit exactly the sort of reaction that I'm suppressing).
Our politicians have dominated their ecological niche and are wholly dependent on nutrients in the form of campaign funding, which mostly comes from corporations. Those who were unwilling or unable to consume that flavor have died out from lack of sustenance. You want them to chop down the tree that produces the fruit that keeps them alive? Good luck with that.
Given that there were no mothers in the Garden (other than arguably Adam who gave birth from his rib), the maternal mortality rate was undefined behavior (0/0). Which checks out -- what did they do during all their time in the Garden, anyway? I guess now we know that we cannot know, and that Lilith must have been of the nasal variety.
Bleh. I made it a ways in, and mostly what I got out of it is that there are more kinds of slop than just AI slop. And psychology is a topic I'm interested in.
As said in a sibling, that's not how eating works. Eating breaks proteins down and then reconstructs new proteins from the amino acids.
So what you really need to do is clone yourself, then hook your clones up to a machine that torments them by constantly warping their bones, and give yourself regular blood infusions from them. You'd have to create a facility to do all this in. Let's call it a torment nexus, just to pick a random name.
Say, has anyone tracked down what Larry Ellison is doing at the various real estate he owns?
Why do we die of old age in the first place? My money's on it being a strongly positive evolutionary force for a species. Almost all organisms age. It would make sense to me that the ones that tried not aging are gone now, likely because they were much much worse at adapting to changing conditions than ones that could reroll the dice every generation. I would further guess that the healthy oldsters filled up their ecological niche and blocked the young individuals from gaining a foothold.
But that argument doesn't prevent limited mechanisms, and conditional mechanisms in particular would still be rewarded. Conditional mechanisms provide much more short term adaptability to changing conditions, without damaging the long term species-wide adaptation.
There are intriguing parallels with centrally planned vs market economies.
Also, bones specifically need to adjust to the weight distribution that they're supporting. Bend a bone, and over time it'll add material on the inward side and lose it on the outward (convex) side. This is a normal, ongoing process. It's why bones are piezoelectric.
I lost a friend who died from complications caused by chemotherapy. That's a true statement. It's also true that she would most likely have died at least a decade earlier, maybe two decades, had she not done chemotherapy. (She was on her 3rd or 4th relapse.)
I don't mind the above wording at all, because there's another thing that happens: people seem to have this impression that if you get cancer, follow the recommended treatment, and are in remission... that you're "done", and you "won". It isn't like that. First, the treatments have serious side effects, both short and long term. Second, cancer is never gone from your life, even if it never comes back. That doesn't mean you should not do the recommended and available treatments. Your odds of survival are almost always much much higher if you do, and imo is the right thing to do for the vast majority of people. But go into it with your eyes open. You're past the point where you get to have a conventional happy ending. You'll need to figure out how to be ok with the ending that you can still have. (Which may be a happy one! But not in the way that you imagined when you were younger.)
You can also brag to people about how great you are because you returned a wallet and expected and/or received nothing in return. With the expectation of receiving social approval.
FWIW, you don't actually have to return the wallet to claim you returned the wallet. In fact, you don't even have to find one. The fact that lost wallets get returned makes me think telling people about it is not the motivation.
Heh, such pushback here. The writeup seems to have gotten under people's skin.
It's refreshing to read human prose about something like this. There's so much you can get about the author's state of mind -- pride at what they've accomplished and how they like to conceptualize it, traces of how they learned things and what those things mean to them... for me, it's a reminder of what we've lost in giving over so much of our writing to AI.
But it's understandable that the writeup would trigger defensiveness. It claims a lot of originality and novelty that seem overreaching. AIUI, it's an optimizing JIT with a superoptimizer and a shared cache, with the search procedure guided by AI. And the equivalence model that the superoptimizer is based on includes all of Python and can handle both CPU and GPU code. It's quite impressive, really.
It's hard to tell what of it is new. Superoptimizers are not, JITs are not, caching JIT code is not, using machine learning to speculate or search is not. Constraining an LLM to produce correct output is no newer than forcing semantically valid JSON output. (You could think them as different type systems.) Different JITs have handled different kinds and amounts of runtime information -- tracing JITs, runtime type inference like SpiderMonkey used to use, speculative compilation and invalidation (global or just in time like inline caches)....
But none of that takes away from Maxwell. There isn't really enough information to compare it to other systems. Random example: many JITs work really hard to balance compilation time with execution time, and the post doesn't talk about that. Is it only for long-running code? Does it reach a steady state, and if so how much overhead is there at that time? What does it make slower or bigger?
At any rate, it seems like there's a lot of interesting work in Maxwell, and it's worth checking out.
1. English is my native language.
2. The organization was to the point (eg it described what this is and who would use it up front). I can't say I found the prose "appealing" -- about the best I can say is that it was so obviously LLM writing that it implicitly told me that this is most likely a large mostly unattended porting project, which helped me set my expectations accordingly. Note that this is also why I stopped after getting a good feel for what it all is; the project would be interesting if I had a need to make something with that exact style of UI, but otherwise there wasn't going to be some shiny new idea or brilliant perspective that I could apply more widely.
3. Partly. It was a wall, but not that impenetrable a wall. There's plenty worse, and it was broken up enough for me to get through. Things were signposted well enough for me to skip a lot of what wasn't relevant to me.
4. Oh, absolutely. See above.
I'm finally growing the ability to extract value even after detecting that text is in the en-SLOP locale. Originally I couldn't detect it, then I could and couldn't tolerate it, now I'm starting to be able to treat it like broken English or caveman speak. I have to work to extract value, albeit a different type of work than those two.
It's mostly about suppressing my reactivity to the choppy phrasing and braggadocio (which are both the results of reinforcement training to elicit exactly the sort of reaction that I'm suppressing).
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