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Look. The argument is very simple, I'll explain. 1. Consciousness is mysterious; neuroscientists don't quite understand how it works 2. LLMs are mysterious; LLM vendors don't quite understand how they work 3. Therefore, LLMs are consciousness. In logic we call this an "extremely correct syllogism"

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

What I love about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping. What I hate about philosophy: anyone can participate. There’s no gatekeeping.

STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers 🔖 https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/#ref61 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/stop-omarchy-boycott-techs-far-right-backers/ #Bookmarks #Fascism #Tech

Really enjoying the old school vibe at @zurichjs.com conf!

Just remembered, a propos, the engineer at a uni fair thing, who could not understand why he was morally obligated to *not* press the doomsday button even if "someone else would do it instead"

Dolly ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlU...

brand new diner serves coke the normal way

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Set up a basic @sifa.id profile, great concept and it's so easy to get going: sifa.id/p/marinaesch...

“LLMs are good, but *only* if megacorps can control them” is a position that should be held by nobody who isn’t one of sama’s shareholders

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

YouTube recommends "Prime Àlvaro Recoba was Unbelievable" – no. No he wasn't. He did not have a "prime". This is Charlie Brown had hoes for football nostalgia and I will not stand for it. It isn't true.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

"Shitty bandaid because we didn't invest in structured data infrastructure 15 years ago" undefeated as *the* use case for LLMs

Ayyyy should have called it Claude Logos amirite

This is a very good, in-depth post that aligns very well with what I also observe in Software currently! Also chuffed that the Borges I suggested made it in, very cool!

DON DRAPER, wearing a Changshan: if we want to sell this revolution as being truly universal under Heaven, we need to make inroads with the fairer sex… how about “women hold up half the sky” MAO, sucking on his teeth: god damn it gweilo you’ve done it again.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Evergreen

Fucked up a perfectly good transformer-based translation engine, look at him, he's got anxiety

"It’s been a while, so quote this skeet with your favourite $20 dollar word." autochtone

I am currently writing down my thoughts on coding with agents, and yeah that feels like a great one-sentence summary of the first 1000 words

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Well sometimes I use this to be polite when I really want to say "I don't want to build this because it is bad design qua design and will make the product worse" (such is my arrogance) but point taken that I should find a better way to say this

For what it's worth, "Tailwind solves problems that are made worse by our current organisation of labor and its gender aspects" is 1) true 2) not a difficult synthesis to make since all participants in this discussion are 90% of the way there

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to orchestrate the Weltgeist for more than 5,000 years. There are various options, not everyone is aligned. This team goes and does it overnight.

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

Let's goooooo #googleballs

Rewrote marinaeschba.ch to Astro. I made the site when I too deep into combining frameworks, but now I tossed out a lot of guff and replacing it with vanilla CSS. Really the best technical solution if you are comfortable with the cascade and know the new features!

Love Young Frankenstein and this is a great shout but the boring (but true) answer is that Kubrick did Strangelove, Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Shining back to back