Think I saw that Reddit thread today

Hey now they were bringing in hundreds of dollars of revenue at one point!

That wasn't a typo.

AKA The Sam Vimes Boots theory of economic unfairness.

I'm getting kind of George Romero zombie movie vibes. Like it's the movie poster for World of the Dead or something like that.

That feeling when you're so dull you have go to go the auto-fellatio machine to have an argument that you know you'll win and bragging about it is like bragging about all the arguments you won the next morning while in the shower.

Hope you find some good stuff!

I haven't listened to a lot of his more recent stuff, but The pretender, lawyers in love, his self-titled album, running on empty, they're all albums that end up on my playlist- especially on a road trip.

It's weird to listen to world in motion and hear him sing about Nelson Mandela being in jail. The world changed a lot.

That is honestly like his high point I come back to that repeatedly.

But basically anything from the '70s all the way up to probably 1989 world in motion. I listen to repeatedly. Some of the albums are weaker than others, but there's good songs on everyone in my opinion

there are more potential phase states of the meaning of that conversation then there are atoms in the universe. The brute force method of llms towards language and knowledge is a non-starter and always will be. Real comprehension is still beyond our ability to synthesize in a computer.

Before measurements can begin. It is pretty established at this point that language and understanding function in the same way. If you carry on a 10-minute conversation with somebody and each word on average can be interpreted in one of two ways, by the end of that conversation

You're actually coming up on philosophical arguments from people like Wittgenstein who argued that knowledge and philosophy become infinitely more complicated because language is malleable. Most science requires calibration of instruments to agreed upon standards

I mean, yeah, you've just hit on a major philosophical issue of the difference between data and knowledge and that is an actively argued point among epistemologists and actual AI researchers. Like llms show that language adheres to patterns and that's kind of crazy to think about.

Same idea with an llm. It creates responses in the shape of a correct answer but it has no understanding beyond the statistical likelihood that a blacksmith will need a lump of metal in that shape. Maybe it'll give you forged steel and you'll have an anvil. Maybe you'll get soft iron. Who knows?

In blacksmithing there is a thing referred to as an Anvil-Shaped Object. It looks like an anvil. It's heavy like an anvil and in theory you could even do some blacksmithing on it. But it is just a lump of metal and not able to return the kinetic energy of your hammer to work metal.

Seen Jackson Browne a few times and I have always enjoyed his music

You joke but this literally dropped yesterday

www.axios.com/2025/12/02/c...