Pessimistically,
I feel TechBroism is a brand of positivism that will never die, more than one of its brethren is already trying to cast themselves as would-be alchemist promising gold from lead through the arcane uses of AI: "You just need the right prompt."
Honestly this could be an improvement compared to what is currently in use by the current french tax collection agency.
The DGFiP uses an up until recently closed-source custom language called "M", which does not have the friendliest/most readable syntax, and that the guys at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, the same lab that seems to have spat out CatalaLang) had to reverse engineer a modern compiler when open sourcing the tax calculation software was newly mandated.
Witness this horrid glory, sadly only in French: chap-1.m
Could also be intended for other horrid COBOL output cases:
For example, the compiler can generate Javascript for web applications, SAS for economic models and COBOL for legacy environments
Trying to approach and make visible the relationship with the laws as written, so that it can potentially be reviewed by non domain-experts doesn't appear to me to be the worst possible goal out there. (They seem to be trying interleaved markdown format), the bigger/broader claims in the about/readme sections might just be required bells and whistles for proper grant funding/thesis presentation.
I have developer co-workers who play the role very convincingly ^^, especially for the LLM hype, and I remember more than one tech conference attending evangelizer (to be fair sometimes the tools or practices are actually good).
What’s the focus of UX despair these days?
I haven’t touched frontend design or implementation for a long while now.
More pessimistically i'd call it the "hype train", a bubble promises an eventual pop.
What usually happens is people on masse moving the newer and shinier model, apparently afflicted with amnesia about their previous buzz words.
I'd say it's the cancerous influence of VC funding, the grift gets the dough.
It’s not bayesian reasoning without actual math, and many beliefs are not so easily quantified under any statistical framework.
All it really offers is unwarranted confidence in one’s own rationality, often used in these circles to cloak nauseating positions.
Making ideas « pay rent », In these circles is also used for black-pilling people into rejecting common sense and humanity. It’s good to be skeptical of new ideas or new claims, it’s even good to analyze and synthesize your own beliefs, it’s a bit dangerous to say that every belief is negotiable, and to give the tools to others the tools to mould them (here be cult dragons).
Despite it’s flaws, it is a good opening to the Declaration of Independence of the US (not American myself):
« we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are […] equal […] with certain unalienable rights »
You can’t get morals from stats, and some core ideals ought to live in your mind rent-free.
I would curse your name, but the video was of such profound vapidity, that it's already gone from my mind ^^ (though a strange desire for mind bleach remains).
That is a delightfully ironic cover ^^, my headcannon is that someone in the distribution pipeline was intentionally taking the piss, surely no one can be that shortsighted; wait ...
Through the magic of self-funded blockchain crowd combobulator (famously very low on greenhouse emissions) yet vitally out-funded through the commitment of big oil money (also famously very low on greenhouse emissions), any regulation or actual government action to address climate change is unneeded!
Truly a pair, paragons of sustainable web3/libertarian virtue!
I think part of it is cargo-culting and/or esthetics, and the seduction is a bit more subtle, their betting markets formalizes their belief:
That if people believe something (they agree with, they aren't consistent with it), that thing is more likely.
Some might even have an actually "occult" interpretation and see it as a form of actual divination. Yud certainly appears to me to have that tendency.
NB: Supprimer l'accord par contre oui, avec l'auxiliaire avoir par example, surtout que dans 95% des cas la différence n'est pas ou peu audible à l'oral. Serait-il si choquant d'écrire:
« Une bel actrice »
« Une amie gentil »
« La femme que j'ai aimé » (2000 points pour celle-ci, l'accord avec avoir ne sert presque à rien)
Après l'anglais à des soucis que l'on a pas en français:
Les déterminants possessifs, sont marqués avec le genre de la personne plutôt que celui (grammatical) de l'objet: "His comment" ou "Her comment" = "Son commentaire" (Bon c'est vrai, même les transphobes utiliseraient "their" lorsque le genre est ambigu).
Là ou en France il y a une tendance à féminiser les noms de métiers ou occupation, il y a en anglais une tendance à les masculiniser/neutraliser. Example l'usage de "She is an actor" devient plus fréquent (voir ici).
Utiliser l'un ou l'autre est un compromis à faire sur comment exactement traiter les gens de façon équitable, faut-il effacer les différence, donner un même titre "plus prestigieux" à l'autre genre, ou reconnaître un place a part entière aux deux genres ? Surtout quand on sait qu'une grosse part du bousin que l'on a en français c'est en grande partie dû à un effort delibéré de masculinisation (explicitement anti-femme) au 17ème siècle.
C'est pas si évident que ça. Abolir le genre pourquoi pas, mais ça ne doit pas s'accompagner par une marginalisation des femmes.
Ça peut aussi être une subtile tentative de leurrer certains émigrés, les ramener sur reddit avec des promesses de troll, et raviver ce qu'ils pensent être une véritable addiction.
Simultanously complaining about the elite, but then saying it's only because it's been watered down by the plebs.
Vile understanding of "poetry" as status marker.
Not going back further in time than 19th century, and extremely suspiciously marking the "height" of peotry between 1920a to mid-1960s, not at all coinciding with the civil rights act.
Thank you for reminding me how vile Moldbug is ? ^^
Pessimistically,
I feel TechBroism is a brand of positivism that will never die, more than one of its brethren is already trying to cast themselves as would-be alchemist promising gold from lead through the arcane uses of AI: "You just need the right prompt."