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).
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?
#mutualaid #solidarity #helpingeachother #mirlo #resources #ai #llm
#lispyGopherClimate #lisp #technology #podcast #archive, #climate #haiku by @kentpitman
https://communitymedia.video/w/c3GdAXe7BQTbK3VrcXCm7E
& @ramin_hal9001
On the #climate I would like to talk about the company that found #curl and #openssl's #deeplearning many (10ish) 0-day vulns "using #ai ". (#llm s were involved).
This obviously relates to my #lisp #symbolic #DL https://screwlisp.small-web.org/conditions/symbolic-d-l/ (ffnn equiv). Thanks to everyone involved with that so far.
I implemented that using #commonLisp #condition handling viz KMP.
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.
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.
#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast hosted by @ramin_hal9001 https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html this week!
https://communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX
My guess as to the topic from the main show toot which is
https://fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b <- visit
@kentpitman 's poem
Repudiating the #ai #llm hype!
And #environmental damage #climate
#commonLisp #lisp #typeTheory #coalton common lisp static typing DSL https://coalton-lang.github.io/ ,
#ELS 2025 talk by Robert Smith. Robert emailed a note.
Good AI research should tell us something about life, or it should help people. I hate seeing research about automating what people do. It's not a good goal for science or society! I was recently reminded of this by a paper applying LLMs to math.
This domain has many good questions: what do we mean when we say a person "solves math problems"? What are they actually doing? How is this like or not like what an LLM does? How might mathematicians benefit from this?
Instead, we get papers that pit an LLM against a human on a math problems dataset. This is great for claiming "AI has superhuman math abilities now!", but it's debatable whether good answers in a test-taking environment have anything to do with logic, reasoning, or creative problem solving. Instead of exploring to what extent LLMs are "really intelligent" vs. "stochastic parrots" (and perhaps the same question for humans), it reduces everything down to a number, one that hides the deeper problem and seems far more definitive than it is.
#ai #llm
I hate OpenAI but I had to use Whisper to help someone make accessible content. I hate that I had to use Whisper to do it because it comes from OpenAI.
But I don't know of any other way to get a text transcription from a media file that is free/open. (Besides doing it manually.)
I tell myself because it's for education and accessibility it's okay, but I still don't like it.
#TIL that HDD prices also increased (because of "AI") like the SSD/memory prices before. I was slowly building my home NAS, thinking that if I use HDD, not SSD, then I should race only with the possibility of Internet shutdown in my country and hope that I'll build the machine before the Internet will become unusable or completely turned off, and I will be able to preserve at least something from human knowledge and creativity. But … looks like for now I should race not only with censorship, but also with fucking "AI" corporations 
The worst timeline ever, I never saw how the price of something was decreased in my life. When I moved to my city at 2008, the bus fare was near 18 roubles. For now it is 88 roubles — the 389% rise. Fuck this shit.
I think, one time the novel "Walkaway" from Cory Doctorow will become not a novel but a real-life. Because there are no mass-adopted solution for now — you could choose only in between "you own nothing and be happy" and "you own nothing and welcome to GULAG" 
. So the good enough solution — not to participate in that circus at all and walk away.
