These comments have been unusually educating for a simple comic strip.

And extremely abusive, since they don’t review the code fully, but a human must review the whole commit before accepting it. They save their time but consume that of others.

I can assure you this happened. I was the cake.

My goal is finding a challenging hobby to keep myself intellectually active. Being old and lonely might be unavoidable, but being bored isn’t.

To be fair, LLMs do really good translations, but as with everything you use them for, you need to be familiar with the subject so you catch their mistakes.

I’m thinking beginner level so the LLM can support instead of replacing you while you get better.

The Spanish names barely count because those were originally Mexican and had been named before USA was born.

My bum, shoulders, and legs hurt in a perfectly real sense after having driven about 14 hours between yesterday and today. Dreams only hurt if you focus on it, and it’s never that detailed or deep.

Take philosophy thought exercises out of imagination and into practical situations, and many cease to look profound.

Given that there are greedy “entrepreneurs” everywhere, I shudder to think what a boob speculator would look like.

8. The enemy is both weak and strong. “[…] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Umberto Eco, The 14 Points of Fascism.

So they’re at last accepting that climate change is real?

To anyone who interacts with it? Would you deny that a program automate mental labor in the same way that a sawmill automates manual labor? Isn’t that some degree of intelligence?

Now, we have very imperfect LLMs who nevertheless can be instructed not with program code, but actual natural language, and they react accordingly. Isn’t that also intelligence? Computers that understood natural language was the realm of science fiction just five years ago.

I get it that people hate LLMs, both because how idiots use them, and how corporations push them everywhere; but not recognizing the intelligence in those programs is naive at best.