Sometimes I want VSCode and sometimes I want Notepad.

Well.. except that I never want either of those. So sometimes I want Kate editor and sometimes I want Akelpad.

If you value 80% correct, then how about 50% correct?

Because I have a nickel I can sell you, and you can flip it an impressive number of times.

So.. Jargon? Are we talking about Jargon?

Jargon is basically just a DSL on top of English :)

I don't think the kind of exponential you are looking for (and especially not "the singularity") can manifest until the product (AI) is at a point where it can meaningfully take over the task of improving itself directly.

I would say we have certainly seen a bottleneck in the ability of LLMs to handle any kind of broad abstractions or master the architecture of coding. That is the hinge of why "vibe coding" is as trashy of an approach as it is: the LLM can't cut the mustard on any actual software design.

So they have nothing close to the deep understanding required to improve their own substrate.

They can be exceptionally good at understanding what humans mean when they say things, far better than poking keywords into a google search for example, especially when said keywords are noisy and overloaded. And they can be a very good encyclopedic store of concepts (the more general the idea the less likely they hallucinate it, while the details and citations are far more frequently made up on the spot). But they suck at volition, and at state representation (thanks to those limited context windows) which cuts them off at the knees if they ever have to tenaciously search for anything including performing creative problem solving.

We do have AI models which can get somewhere on theorem proving or protein folding or high level competitive game playing, but those only sometimes even glancingly involve LLMs, and are primarily custom-built amalgams of different kinds of neural networks each trained on specific tasks in their fields.

None of that can directly move the needle on actual AI research yet.

Why don't they just use # hash urls for their in-SPA page urls instead? That's what Elm and Elixir LiveView both do.

AFAICT just holding left-click for half a second has the same effect. That's been my go to since the little triangle dropdown vanished from the back button (checks watch).. uh, some time in the nineties mebe?

Firefox had it in 2010. I don't remember when IE ditched it.

Etree is missing self-seed then. What if IA hosted torrents like Etree does but also self-seeded the content?

Thus they are encouraging amateur third parties to pick up some of the archival slack, that style of torrent could outlive IA in case anything happened to them, and it reduces some of their bandwidth costs

IA always does that. Every download page also links to a torrent. Is that not the same as what you want?

"Are you not entertained!?"

No, but that sounds good. :D

I absolutely grew up in the correct time period, and I've been in a ton of abandoned or not-currently-occupied 1970s decor structures, both day and night in my life. Malls, factories, office buildings, schools, churches, workshops, houses, barns, alleyways, warehouses, storage areas, the list goes on.

I have never been creeped out by these kinds of areas or vibes, instead finding them endlessly comforting and wicked fun to explore :D

I think one possible difference about how I view such an area vs the youth of today, is I think they view walls as "the boundaries of a video game map, so sturdy that gunfire and C4 can't even dent them, thus ineffable". But I had seen enough damaged and unfinished drywall and poorly constructed buildings in my youth to instead view the wall as another piece of furniture. Beyond it is something else, possibly "outside". I don't have to bust it down, but I built faith that if you walk around it you will arrive there all the same.

And as far as an environment constructed for humans: chairs, tables, doorways, but no humans present to occupy said environment, I just wind up personifying the furniture or imagining ways to use a space for which it might not have been originally intended. After all I explored these spaces since I was a child, you damn well know my first instinct is "climb up and over all of the things" and "establish a fort" and things like that! :D

Of course it's doing something for you. Room to defrag other areas of RAM, room to load something new without moving something else out of the way first.

Your perspective sounds like the concept that space in a room does nothing for you until/unless you cram it full of hoarded items.

If we're talking about a storage locker that's instantly reconfigurable then it is probably better to be approximately filling it.

Why would anyone buy a locker 5x the size of their needs ?

Yeah, sed (and friends) browbeat everyone into learning regex (which PERL then refined).

I think it might be more cognitive load than it is worth to expect everyone en masse to learn another single-line-punctuation-driven-language to perform everyday tasks with.