"We'll try everything, it seems, other than holding parents accountable for what their children consume".

We'll try anything, it seems, other than hold internet companies accountable for the society destroying shit they publish.

And it's not jusy children who's lives they are destroying.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

"maybe consider editing the AI output once it's given you a second draft?".

I would completely rewrite the LLM output. Use it as a researcher or idea generator.

"A VC might want variety and advise people he will vote with his dollars for variety".

In other words, what's good for Peter Theil might not be goid for you.

Yup. Therefore postulating it as a truth or standard is ok if that's what you agree with and want to also pursue, but it's important to keep in mind that valid goals are a spectrum.

"Not sure how to get progress".

Maybe make small audio recordings and get them transcribed?

Or a notebook and scribble out all thoughts by hand?

Just get all your thoughts out of your head onto "paper" is the first step. Don't even think about the second step yet.

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step". - Lao Tzu

Ok... How about this? All (human) models of the universe are "Ptolemaic" to some degree. That is, they work but don't necessarily describe the true underlying structure ().

So it is a mistake to assume that any model is actually true.

Therefore complex numbers are just another modeling language, useful in certain contexts. All mathematics is just a modeling language.

() If you doubt this, ask yourself the question: Will the science of particle physics have changed in 100 years?

I often wonder if Quantum Mechanics is a "Ptolomaic" understanding of the sub atomic world.

Yes I have wondered about that. I feel the same about Attention based networks, may be we are not using the most befitting coordinate system to understand them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981

When it comes to anything tech related, the HN crowd are trend setters.

And.... the world is crying out for a google alternative. If it ever appears, the tech savvy people will be the first to move, followed by everyone else.

Kagi is waiting for your money

"It's made me realize that the love of money corrupts".

Yep. How about $1 per PR. The submitter gets to choose from a list of charities. No refund if the PR is accepted.

The goal is to get rid of junk PR's. This would work. There could be a central payment system, which any open source project can integrate with. It could accept payment in say India, of the Indian PPP of $1, so you aren't shutting out poorer developers.

I would not pay any amount of money, even a trivial one, for the privilege of being able to do free work for a project - and I don't think I'm an outlier here.

Another way to think of it is: paying $1 to have your pr and concerns elevated above the supermajority sea (that which will be ai driven contributions). For that cost, it's a steal of the deal.

Then, from the perspective of "it's a donation to a project you care about" it becomes even more rational. But the project itself getting the money has all the problems others have outlined already, so that idea's a bit bust.

> "it's a donation to a project you care about"

But I'm already donating my time by creating a PR, it definitely would disincentivize me to make PRs if I had to also pay in addition to already doing the actual work. Just always such a shame that the good people have to suffer because of the actions of the shitty people...

Nope. From the POV of the maintainer, you are creating extra, and probably unnecessary, work for them.

If that's actually the opinion of the maintainer, why even accept PRs at all? At that point, just categorically deny any. I was thinking more of actual community projects that _want_ community PRs. Those seem to have welcomed my contributions in the past, but of course they were not just AI slop or other low effort PRs.

Most of my PRs are drive-by PRs: I have an problem, maybe a bug or missing feature, that annoyed me enough to fix it. And because I want to use future versions without the work of maintaining a fork I instead invest the work to upstream the fix. A step that is sometimes more work than the fix itself. At that point I wouldn't mind paying $1 to get that PR looked at and merged.

But that is not the only type of PR. We clearly need escape hatches for people who engage with a project on a deeper level.

"We clearly need escape hatches for people who engage with a project on a deeper level".

Yep. The project maintainer can whitelist those people.

The money is going to a charity of your choice.

Yep. It's like trying to achieve a million LOC per day. Easily done. But pointless.