Paul Butcher

I just got this after searching for "Rob Brown" in @Apple Mail. #ai being a little more helpful than it should?

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You are familiar, I guess, with Larry Wall’s assertion that the three great virtues of a programmer are laziness, impatience, and hubris?

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I’m quite sure I didn't see anything this obviously wrong on the spellcheckers I used in the 80s and 90s, so why are they so awful now, when they have thousands of times more processing power and memory at their disposal?

When did spellcheckers become so awful? The screenshot below happens to be Word failing to understand that "and" is a word, but I've seen the same kind of thing in multiple different apps over the last few years.

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Yup. And the same goes for the board. I’m constantly amazed at how many of the CTOs I coach don’t even know who is on the board, let alone have any kind of relationship with them.

Believe me, when the chips are down you’ll appreciate knowing who to talk to…

I guess that must mean that there's interference there, but it must be pretty strong to get in the way of the connection between the phone and the car, when the phone's in the car and a matter of inches away from the head unit? What on Earth could be causing it?

This has now happened 3 times in a row, so I don't think it's chance: Whenever I drive into Grand Arcade car park in Cambridge, the wireless CarPlay connection between my phone and car becomes glitchy (dropping out for seconds at a time).

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Claude’s sensory overload is so relatable

Great (as always). You say:

“There's probably some mathematical theorem to the effect that there is no system that works well all the time.”

There are a number of “no go” theorems around voting, the best known of which is Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's...

Modern discourse: someone said “it’s important to be open about your agenda” but I *heard* “it’s important to be open about your gender”.

That took a while to unpick 🤦

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In case you’ve not already seen this:

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We have a mental model that a photograph is a true record of an instant in time. That mental model has been broken for a while now:

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Which might go some way to explaining why the linguistic turn in philosophy was both attractive and somewhat successful?

Could it be the car that LLMs do have a world model *to exactly the degree that there’s a world model encoded within natural language*.

This is what’s surprised me about the impressive abilities of LLMs: how much of human capability is encoded within the corpus.