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A chimpanzee could turn the nuclear keys if he were given access to them. The solution is not to remove chimpanzees' thumbs; it's just to not give them the nuclear keys. This is a very basic lesson that the labs are somehow missing.

Every one of those posts costs money, and OpenAI is apparently willing to pay that. This really is a problem with a simple solution.

As a guy who started in lisp I always find LSP to be a weird uncanny valley situation. It's like 99% of a REPL, but it will always have corner cases where that 1% difference is important.

I still don't understand what is about REPL that lisp people find particularly useful.

Do you recommend any resources explaining the workflow?


Not only Lisp, but Javascript and Ruby (AKA dynamic languages) devs also rely heavily in REPLs, for me at least the reason is that you don't know what value a variable holts, so you need to inspect them somehow, with typed languages you have less reasons to reach such tool.

iPython was famous for a while but I think its popularity has waned, but yes as you point out really any dynamic language can do a repl; it's just that it's mostly the lisp/scheme and forth families that have leaned so heavily into the idea.

Not only dynamic languages! Java has `jshell` for instance

It's the same reason people like symbolic debuggers: you can run your program as many lines at a time as you want and stop and inspect the state whenever you need to. I haven't really used jupyter but I understand the workflow there is very similar.

Commodification of inference means the death of capital spending on buildouts, which would mean the end of both Softbank and probably Oracle.

You don't need to sell us on the idea even further.

Aren't the "thinking" chains always just reconstructed anyways? It would be like using a debugger that just looks at the source code rather than the actual binary.

There are whole industries that still don't let LLM-generated code touch production

I gave up on gun control as a political question when I realized you can buy a flamethrower at Home Depot

To what extent is OpenClaw still alive to be killed?

Or, I mean, reading and responding to emails on your phone directly

The only job application process I've ever walked out on in the middle of was 25 years ago, when I was taking a proctored computer skills test and it dinged me for pressing the Windows key rather than moving the cursor to the Start button and clicking it.

So this is a new presentation of an old problem, I guess is the takeaway there.


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