I’m nearly certain that nobody who died in WW2 is alive today

You can see much much further than you can hear.

You can presumably walk out of earshot. You have to go VERY FAR before you’re out of camera shot for even consumer cameras.

It’d be interesting if there was a multi-modal device-to-device communication protocol, so that you needed both line of sight and be within audio range to be able to pick up the conversation.

Although just record them typing at that point so never mind.

That’s the whole point of this post.

What if you do retain your memories, but your past lives were creatures that didn’t have the ability to form memories?

I would call all of those “something like a soul”; an embodiment of your essence external to your physical body.

If it’s not an embodiment of your essence external to your physical body, then it’s difficult to really call it reincarnation, since it’s not you

I feel like there’d be a lot of ants and insects in there too.

The way they die in old age does not appeal to me.

Growing forever, but eventually when they get too large, their shell becomes so difficult to molt that they die of exhaustion before they can complete their molt.

I assume that belief in reincarnation requires belief in something like a soul to be reincarnated

Imo the main issue with oop is that it’s very easy for people to make bad designs. Generally the feeling I get is that if you work on a well designed codebase, then you’ll come to like whatever the main paradigm of that codebase is, and if you work on a poorly design codebase you’ll come to dislike the paradigm.

I’ll hate on python (or any dynamically typed lang) as much as the next guy, but let’s not be language snobs

Because with federated services people don’t have to host an activitypub server, you can join a federated instance that someone else maintains.

The typical Twitter user balked at just selecting a mastodon instance when they signed up in the app… similar issues for reddit users looking to come to lemmy. If you think that they’re going to be willing to go and set up and manage their own server, even on a free hosting site, you’re wildly mistaken.

If you don’t think you need the normies on your social network anyways, I have no polite way to tell you that most people want to join social networks with their friends.

Maybe? But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I mean, it’s the best option you have, but that doesn’t make it a good option.

It’s ephemeral because now you’re demanding that everyone stand up their own web-addressable servers that the rss readers can search, if they want their own content to be searchable. Which isn’t going to happen. So in practice, it’s going to be either federated, or ephemeral.

Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than

Because that’s what the devs are interested in doing. If you’re going to ask anyone, ask them.

a big thing you’re missing is discovery of old content and searching. You’re describing a purely ephemeral social network. Activitypub itself can’t solve that, but this is why federated networks exist instead of purely P2P.
Maybe some people want that, after all Snapchat became popular. But it wouldn’t work for something like Lemmy.

MicroHondas?
Bro I think that’s just called a civic

The microFloridians translate it for him

This will be fantastic during the apocalypse and we lose Internet.
Too bad I’ll have lost the Internet so I won’t be able to learn how to get the equipment and set it up, until it’s too late

So you can try your prompt again. Also to avoid getting stuck in loops of repeated text. Getting stuck down a bad line of “reasoning”. Etc.

Low chance of error comes with low chance of error recovery, conversely high chance of error comes with high error recovery ability (mostly just talking about temperature and top k, here)

Yes, that’s why it’s necessary for it to be non-deterministic. Without non-determinism, there is no error recovery if it chooses the wrong token somewhere in the middle of the completion. That’s much less useful.

I prefer to coach my enthusiasm for the productivity improvements.

If all you’re using it for is to find the relevant parts of the relevant documentation, then a vector search would do as well.
What an LLM can do is synthesize readable docs out of poor or missing docs. When it isn’t hallucinating, that is.

But I don’t actually see anyone using LLMs just to cut through the docs, they’re using it to code. And the results I’ve seen are pretty mixed. It does seem to help ramp up in a new area, but it also seems to become an impediment to moving past the ramp-up phase.
Beginners can now produce beginner code at 2x the speed, and senior folks can now produce beginner code at 3x the speed. But nobody is producing senior level code.

Plus, you know… All the ethical and socioeconomic concerns.