Since I'm job and work hunting I tend to see the absurd new job titles that are bouncing around in the tech sector. The latest, which I've seen twice today, is "artificial general intelligence engineer" or some permutation thereof. I do my best to spend the minimum possible time on these and have no guess about whether they're legitimate.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/agi/" rel="tag">#AGI</a><br>
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<p>Ocassionally some silly silly folk will call me a <a href="/tags/broligarch/" rel="tag">#broligarch</a> fanboi "thinking" I'm 100% in support of <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> and block me merely for debating, rather than echoing the <a href="/tags/luddite/" rel="tag">#Luddite</a> chorus. <br>... I drew this cartoon 35 years ago (1991 - Hal '91)<br>Long before all the wannabe kool kids were <a href="/tags/antiai/" rel="tag">#antiai</a> <br> <br>Point is, I did not arrive at my AI position overnight (<a href="/tags/regulateai/" rel="tag">#regulateAI</a>), as most folk had. I had a few dacades to mull things over.</p><p>Can you spot the <a href="/tags/dilbert/" rel="tag">#Dilbert</a> influence?<br>I was always in the bleeding edge of <a href="/tags/zeitgeist/" rel="tag">#zeitgeist</a> , Dilbert was only 3 years old. <br><a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a></p>
<p>Listening to Search Engine announce the Forkiverse while workin' transit, bending space and time to move people, mass and freight in an instant.</p><p>File size:45 kb.</p><p>(Created with local generative txt-to-image AI. Stable Diffusion variant with help from Gimp, on Debian Linux using a legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no subscription, no limits)</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/fiberarts/" rel="tag">#fiberarts</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/astralslop/" rel="tag">#astralSlop</a> <a href="/tags/astralplanes/" rel="tag">#astralplanes</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#funny</a> <a href="/tags/spacingguild/" rel="tag">#spacingguild</a> <a href="/tags/searchengine/" rel="tag">#searchengine</a></p>
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I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.<br><br>In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.<br><br>If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.<br><br><br><p>It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).<br></p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/nihilism/" rel="tag">#nihilism</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#LinkedIn</a><br>
<p><a href="/tags/mosaic/" rel="tag">#Mosaic</a> <a href="/tags/owl/" rel="tag">#Owl</a> <a href="/tags/stained/" rel="tag">#Stained</a> <a href="/tags/glass/" rel="tag">#Glass</a> by Kaye Menner Wide variety <a href="/tags/prints/" rel="tag">#Prints</a> & lovely <a href="/tags/products/" rel="tag">#Products</a> at: </p><p><a href="https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/mosaic-owl-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/mosaic-owl-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaye-menner.pixels.com/feature</span><span class="invisible">d/mosaic-owl-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/bird/" rel="tag">#bird</a> <a href="/tags/birdart/" rel="tag">#birdart</a> <a href="/tags/mosaic/" rel="tag">#mosaic</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/homedecor/" rel="tag">#homedecor</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/giftideas/" rel="tag">#giftideas</a> <a href="/tags/wallartforsale/" rel="tag">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/artforsale/" rel="tag">#artforsale</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/fineartamerica/" rel="tag">#FineArtAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/photographyfeed/" rel="tag">#PhotographyFeed</a> <a href="/tags/visualarts/" rel="tag">#VisualArts</a> <a href="/tags/creativearts/" rel="tag">#CreativeArts</a></p>
<p>NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. </p><p>“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/transportation/" rel="tag">#transportation</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#safety</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="/tags/googleai/" rel="tag">#GoogleAI</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a></p>
<p>Love ya all! But clockin' out of this timeline for a while to visit some buds cliff living in a nearby parallel universe with GREAT views of astral planes.</p><p>Yes, still listening to <a href="/tags/searchengine/" rel="tag">#searchengine</a> (Hey small countries DON'T fall for that petro-dollar TRAP!).</p><p>Image file size: 43kB!</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/fineart/" rel="tag">#fineart</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/aiart/" rel="tag">#AIart</a> <a href="/tags/astralplanes/" rel="tag">#astralplanes</a> <a href="/tags/travel/" rel="tag">#travel</a> <a href="/tags/astraltravel/" rel="tag">#astraltravel</a> <a href="/tags/flying/" rel="tag">#flying</a> <a href="/tags/astral/" rel="tag">#astral</a></p>
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<p>Kaye Menner sold a <a href="/tags/tapestry/" rel="tag">#Tapestry</a> (68" x 80") to a buyer from Davis, CA (United States) </p><p><a href="https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/saleannouncement.html?id=fff4f0b82536594d742c24408346114d" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kaye-menner.pixels.com/saleannouncement.html?id=fff4f0b82536594d742c24408346114d"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaye-menner.pixels.com/saleann</span><span class="invisible">ouncement.html?id=fff4f0b82536594d742c24408346114d</span></a></p><p>Link to image: <a href="https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/palm-sunset-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/palm-sunset-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaye-menner.pixels.com/feature</span><span class="invisible">d/palm-sunset-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/colorful/" rel="tag">#colorful</a> <a href="/tags/mosaic/" rel="tag">#mosaic</a> <a href="/tags/cutglass/" rel="tag">#cutglass</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/palms/" rel="tag">#palms</a> <a href="/tags/sky/" rel="tag">#sky</a> <a href="/tags/lake/" rel="tag">#lake</a> <a href="/tags/homedecor/" rel="tag">#homedecor</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/giftideas/" rel="tag">#giftideas</a> <a href="/tags/wallartforsale/" rel="tag">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/artforsale/" rel="tag">#artforsale</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/fineartamerica/" rel="tag">#FineArtAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/photographyfeed/" rel="tag">#PhotographyFeed</a> <a href="/tags/visualarts/" rel="tag">#VisualArts</a> <a href="/tags/creativearts/" rel="tag">#CreativeArts</a></p>
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<p>What I’ve been reading (watching, and listening to) this week ending 25 January 2026 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee</span><span class="invisible">n-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/lean/" rel="tag">#Lean</a> <a href="/tags/depression/" rel="tag">#Depression</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/productmanagement/" rel="tag">#ProductManagement</a></p>
I am astonished to have bookmarked a message from the Pope in my pile of AI-related links.<br><br><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html" rel="nofollow">MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS</a><br><br>His emphasis on face and voice is good.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/popeleo/" rel="tag">#PopeLeo</a><br>
<p><a href="/tags/ki/" rel="tag">#KI</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> (€) "Gedrucktes, das notwendigerweise aus dem Schreiben hervorgeht, ist gleichbedeutend mit <a href="/tags/demokratie/" rel="tag">#Demokratie</a>: Erfinde das Schreiben und Demokratie ist unvermeidlich.<br>In der Gegenwart verlieren menschliches Denken und Schreiben offenbar an Bedeutung. Angesichts von <a href="/tags/fakenews/" rel="tag">#fakenews</a> und Künstlicher Intelligenz, die auf die gleiche Frage immer andere Antworten gibt, kann man längst nicht mehr sicher sein, dass die Wahrheit im Licht der Öffentlichkeit wirklich ans Licht kommt."<br><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/medienrevolutionen-und-oeffentlichkeit-erfinde-das-schreiben-und-demokratie-ist-unvermeidlich-a-645107fc-b156-4f80-bc3a-1ac3a2ed3459" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.spiegel.de/geschichte/medienrevolutionen-und-oeffentlichkeit-erfinde-das-schreiben-und-demokratie-ist-unvermeidlich-a-645107fc-b156-4f80-bc3a-1ac3a2ed3459"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.spiegel.de/geschichte/medi</span><span class="invisible">enrevolutionen-und-oeffentlichkeit-erfinde-das-schreiben-und-demokratie-ist-unvermeidlich-a-645107fc-b156-4f80-bc3a-1ac3a2ed3459</span></a></p>
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<p>"Sources tell Windows Central that internal teams are also beginning to push back against excessive integration, and the company may therefore reconsider its stance.</p><p>At the very least, Microsoft may dial back Copilot features or remove the chatbot’s branding from apps like Notepad and Paint to make the experience feel more conventional, the report says."</p><p><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-r</span><span class="invisible">eportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a></p>
<p>Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle 2026 !! </p><p><a href="https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/8Qs0TqcP0rIbPpLbHD7IfW3s/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/8Qs0TqcP0rIbPpLbHD7IfW3s/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/fil</span><span class="invisible">e/#/2/file/8Qs0TqcP0rIbPpLbHD7IfW3s/</span></a></p><p>( Transparenz: Ich arbeite nicht in der IT, dies ist ein kleines HobbyProjekt, wo Ich versuche Menschen ein paar nützlich Computer Tipps zu geben. )</p><p><a href="/tags/datenschutz/" rel="tag">#Datenschutz</a><br><a href="/tags/privatsphäre/" rel="tag">#Privatsphäre</a><br><a href="/tags/sicherheit/" rel="tag">#Sicherheit</a><br><a href="/tags/verschlüsselung/" rel="tag">#Verschlüsselung</a><br><a href="/tags/chatkontrolle/" rel="tag">#Chatkontrolle</a><br><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a><br><a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a><br><a href="/tags/windows10/" rel="tag">#Windows10</a><br><a href="/tags/endof10/" rel="tag">#Endof10</a><br><a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#Windows11</a><br><a href="/tags/betriebssystem/" rel="tag">#Betriebssystem</a><br><a href="/tags/supportende/" rel="tag">#Supportende</a><br><a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#Gaming</a><br><a href="/tags/browser/" rel="tag">#Browser</a><br><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a><br><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a><br><a href="/tags/suchmaschine/" rel="tag">#Suchmaschine</a> <br><a href="/tags/passwortmanager/" rel="tag">#Passwortmanager</a><br><a href="/tags/informationssicherheit/" rel="tag">#Informationssicherheit</a><br><a href="/tags/digitalindependenceday/" rel="tag">#DigitalIndependenceDay</a><br><a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#YouTube</a><br><a href="/tags/werbeblocker/" rel="tag">#Werbeblocker</a><br><a href="/tags/2fa/" rel="tag">#2FA</a><br><a href="/tags/email/" rel="tag">#eMail</a><br><a href="/tags/messenger/" rel="tag">#Messenger</a><br><a href="/tags/unplugtrump/" rel="tag">#UnplugTrump</a><br><a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a><br><a href="/tags/graniteact/" rel="tag">#GraniteAct</a><br><a href="/tags/cloudact/" rel="tag">#CloudAct</a> <br><a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a><br><a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#Facebook</a><br><a href="/tags/tiktok/" rel="tag">#TikTok</a><br><a href="/tags/instagram/" rel="tag">#Instagram</a><br><a href="/tags/did/" rel="tag">#DID</a></p>
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<p>It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.</p><p>In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.</p><p>If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.</p><p>But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!</p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/intelligence/" rel="tag">#intelligence</a></p>
<p>🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.</p><p>This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.</p><p>If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">plus.flux.community/p/its-like</span><span class="invisible">-this-why-your-perception</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/cognitivescience/" rel="tag">#cognitivescience</a> <a href="/tags/cogsci/" rel="tag">#cogsci</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#chatgpt</a></p>
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<p>We're going to put together a resource for musicians on how they can have album art without using large language models. Do you have any resources you'd like to see in that? Free image libraries? Friends who can help do design? Basic how-tos?</p><p><a href="/tags/mutualaid/" rel="tag">#mutualaid</a> <a href="/tags/solidarity/" rel="tag">#solidarity</a> <a href="/tags/helpingeachother/" rel="tag">#helpingeachother</a> <a href="/tags/mirlo/" rel="tag">#mirlo</a> <a href="/tags/resources/" rel="tag">#resources</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a></p>
<p>"It’s one thing when a taxi is replaced by an Uber or a Lyft. It’s another thing when the jobs just go completely overseas."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/advanced-transpor</span><span class="invisible">t/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/waymo/" rel="tag">#waymo</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a></p>
<p>My <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/symbolic/" rel="tag">#symbolic</a> <a href="/tags/deeplearning/" rel="tag">#deepLearning</a> <a href="/tags/ffnn/" rel="tag">#ffnn</a> <a href="/tags/condition/" rel="tag">#condition</a> streamlined.</p><p><a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/lisp-symbolic-deep-learning-streamlined/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/lisp-symbolic-deep-learning-streamlined/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/condit</span><span class="invisible">ions/lisp-symbolic-deep-learning-streamlined/</span></a></p><p>The pretty and overtly useable rewrite of my earlier brace of articles.</p><p>An important condition handling style mistake I cleaned up was that I had previously put HANDLER-BIND /inside/ my INFER. But this freezes it in place; I might as well have used functions as such. Now the algorithm graph is essentially the condition handlers and restarts outside the function at runtime.</p><p><a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://toobnix.org/w/9oA5WZEkbjKkfbsSxEoJ8v" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="toobnix.org/w/9oA5WZEkbjKkfbsSxEoJ8v"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toobnix.org/w/9oA5WZEkbjKkfbsS</span><span class="invisible">xEoJ8v</span></a> <a href="/tags/archive/" rel="tag">#archive</a></p><p>Okay I guess on the hour it's the Sunday-morning-in-Europe <a href="/tags/lispygopherclimate/" rel="tag">#lispyGopherClimate</a> .</p><p>a. I will lightly go over my recent <a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a> <a href="/tags/symbolic/" rel="tag">#symbolic</a> <a href="/tags/dl/" rel="tag">#DL</a> ( <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a>!) algo / article.</p><p>b. Excitingly that gave me occasion to use</p><p>(this-function foo &rest keys &key &allow-other-keys)</p><p>which I used to pass data-like parameters along without cluttering up arguements (waters' functions of seven arguments). People had tried to explain it to me previously but now I underst</p><p><a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#peertube</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/lispygopherclimate/" rel="tag">#lispyGopherClimate</a> <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/archive/" rel="tag">#archive</a>, <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/haiku/" rel="tag">#haiku</a> by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kentpitman</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://communitymedia.video/w/c3GdAXe7BQTbK3VrcXCm7E" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="communitymedia.video/w/c3GdAXe7BQTbK3VrcXCm7E"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">communitymedia.video/w/c3GdAXe</span><span class="invisible">7BQTbK3VrcXCm7E</span></a><br>& <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ramin_hal9001</span></a></span> <br>On the <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> I would like to talk about the company that found <a href="/tags/curl/" rel="tag">#curl</a> and <a href="/tags/openssl/" rel="tag">#openssl</a>'s <a href="/tags/deeplearning/" rel="tag">#deeplearning</a> many (10ish) 0-day vulns "using <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> ". (<a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> s were involved).</p><p>This obviously relates to my <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/symbolic/" rel="tag">#symbolic</a> <a href="/tags/dl/" rel="tag">#DL</a> <a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/symbolic-d-l/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/symbolic-d-l/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/condit</span><span class="invisible">ions/symbolic-d-l/</span></a> (ffnn equiv). Thanks to everyone involved with that so far.</p><p>I implemented that using <a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a> <a href="/tags/condition/" rel="tag">#condition</a> handling viz KMP.</p>
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I'm tinkering with an argument based on algorithmic complexity that if it were possible to make something like an "automated mathematician" or "automated scientist", then these would be expected to eventually produce outputs that we humans would be unable to distinguish from random noise.<br><br>Getting the whole argument just right is fiddly, but the basic idea is this. You feed some kind of theory into the AM/AS, which is a black box. It churns on this and spits out a result, which is added to the theory (I'm neglecting the case that the result is inconsistent with the theory). It can now churn on theory + result 1. For any given and potentially very large N, after doing this long enough, it's churning on theory + result 1 + result 2 + ... + result N. Whatever it spits out will be dependent in particular on results 1 - N. When N is large enough, unless you know these results you will not be able to understand what it outputs because the output will almost surely depend critically on one or more of results 1 - N. In other words, the output will look like noise to you. If the AM/AS is appreciably faster at producing results than people are at understanding them, there will be an N beyond which no one can understand the output up to that point. It'll become indistinguishable (unable to be distinguished) from random noise.<br><br>If you're into software development, this would be analogous to a software system that generates syntactically-correct code and then adds that code as a new call in a growing software library. If you were to run this long enough, virtually all the programs it generated that were short enough for human beings to have any hope of reading and understanding would consist almost entirely of library calls to code generated by the system. You'd have no idea what any of this code did unless you studied the library calls, which you wouldn't be able to do beyond a certain scale. If the system were expanding the library faster than you could read and understand it, there'd be no hope at all.<br><br>I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader whether this is a desirable thing to do and whether it's happened yet. I would offer, though, a question to ponder: what reason is there to believe that a random number generator hooked up to an inscrutable interpreter produces human flourishing, for any given meaning of "human flourishing" you care to use?<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/automatedmathematician/" rel="tag">#AutomatedMathematician</a> <a href="/tags/automatedscientist/" rel="tag">#AutomatedScientist</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/thoughtexperiment/" rel="tag">#ThoughtExperiment</a><br>
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<p>While hoping and waiting for the bubble to pop, I have started writing about the planet-burning brain asbestos of our times, starting with issues related to sovereignty, independence and dependency on unsavory companies. </p><p><a href="https://blog.mathieui.net/ai-and-sovereignty.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.mathieui.net/ai-and-sovereignty.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.mathieui.net/ai-and-sover</span><span class="invisible">eignty.html</span></a></p><p>This is a split from a mega-post that I have started writing more than a year ago and that I can’t seem to finish ever, so apologies if it does not reach a real conclusion on its own 🫠. <br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a></p>
Compare and contrast<br><br>This:<br><p>In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn.<br></p>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan's_Run_(film)" rel="nofollow">Logans Run</a>)<br><br>and this:<br><p>In the year of the city 2274, the colony of human beings on Mars live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by generative AI. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Cloud", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense their consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and live forever.<br></p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/mars/" rel="tag">#Mars</a> <a href="/tags/eugenics/" rel="tag">#eugenics</a> <a href="/tags/logansrun/" rel="tag">#LogansRun</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a><br>
<p><a href="/tags/lispygopherclimate/" rel="tag">#lispyGopherClimate</a> <a href="/tags/live/" rel="tag">#live</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> hosted by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ramin_hal9001</span></a></span> <a href="https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/arti</span><span class="invisible">cles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html</span></a> this week!</p><p><a href="https://communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWF</span><span class="invisible">J7NuDVCjkAv7fkX</span></a></p><p>My guess as to the topic from the main show toot which is </p><p><a href="https://fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eb</span><span class="invisible">a-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b</span></a> <- visit</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kentpitman</span></a></span> 's poem</p><p>Repudiating the <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> hype!</p><p>And <a href="/tags/environmental/" rel="tag">#environmental</a> damage <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a> <a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/typetheory/" rel="tag">#typeTheory</a> <a href="/tags/coalton/" rel="tag">#coalton</a> common lisp static typing DSL <a href="https://coalton-lang.github.io/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>coalton-lang.github.io/</a> ,<br><a href="/tags/els/" rel="tag">#ELS</a> 2025 talk by Robert Smith. Robert emailed a note.</p><p><a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a></p>
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<p>As someone who now has a feedforward neural network of a single hidden layer implementation (in <a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a>) I learned a lot about what has a spot to be stuck into the algorithm.</p><p><a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/sharpsign-sharpsign-input-referential-ffnn-dl-data/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/sharpsign-sharpsign-input-referential-ffnn-dl-data/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/fundam</span><span class="invisible">ental/sharpsign-sharpsign-input-referential-ffnn-dl-data/</span></a></p><p>Something that turns out to be easy to stick in is making training data which copies data out of the current context or even to simply point the training data definition into the <a href="/tags/deeplearning/" rel="tag">#deepLearning</a> inference input context though I did not prove convergence for the latter case.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/dl/" rel="tag">#dl</a></p>