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Cake day: April 23rd, 2026

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  • If you ignore the blathering of the author and just look at Dawkin’s statements, it’s obvious he’s commenting philosophically on what he’s seeing in the usage of the LLM and how we view consciousness. Language is how humanity expresses it’s consciousness and when you take a hug swath of our written output and put it in a model, is it any surprise that it’s output comes across as human-like?

    Assigning one’s interpretation that Dawkins thinks the model is concious is a stretch and this article comes across as a bullshit smear piece against someone they don’t like for whatever reasons those may be. I would imagine if Dawkins gave enough of a shit about this author to rebut them, you’d find he’s fully aware of what LLMs are and are not.


  • I just imagine the dumbest thing someone can do in a situation and model for that.

    Icy roads? Well, the logical thing to do is make sudden moves at the last possible second without leaving a buffer. Stand on the throttle at every intersection, and start braking when you normally would in the middle of summer, of course.

    Honestly, you learn to predict unpredictability. Slight movements will tell you when someone is going to change lanes without a shoulder check or cross three lanes of traffic to make an exit that they could just have easily gone on to the next interchange without endangering themselves and others. Hell, I watch peoples eyes in their side mirrors look at me as they incorrectly judge how much space they have to insert themselves in front of me, when there’s a kilometer of space behind me they could use instead.


  • I wouldn’t replace existing, non-leaking copper. It should be fine for a long, long time. But I wouldn’t spend a lot of time trying to stay in copper for new stuff. Use a copper-to-pex sweat fitting where you need new stuff, and go pex from there. The supposed benefits of copper (which I don’t really buy) aren’t worth the hassle of dealing with copper fittings and the extra work for routing.