What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

Ever had that person where every interaction just ends up awkward. And you don’t know how it’s possible but then bad luck strikes, it somehow happens again. And you grab them by the shoulders, shaking them saying “I’M NOT ACTUALLY LIKE THIS I AM NOT WEIRD I’M VERY NORMAL”

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We wrongly assign intention and goals to AI models like LLMs because we incorrectly assume the nature of their insides based on their outsides.

It is meaningless to talk of AI goals or intent, or at least meaningless to think of them as in any way isomorphic to animal goals or intent, as the mechanism for the production of goals and intent fundamentally does not exist in AI models.

This false theory of cognition is extremely dangerous, because it leads us to waste time on fallacies like AGI/superintelligence wiping out humanity through some misplaced intent + agency.

In reality the risk is both more proximate and more mundane than that, and is the same risk that has been playing out for at least hundreds of years.

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The thing is, animal cognition is inextricably an embodied process. Affect is not a side-effect of cognition but its root.

The fact that we have computerised the production of plausibly similar outputs as those from animal cognition only means that we anthropomorphise the process that produces those plausible outputs.

We wrongly assign intention and goals to AI models like LLMs because we incorrectly assume the nature of their insides based on their outsides.

It is meaningless to talk of AI goals or intent, or at least meaningless to think of them as in any way isomorphic to animal goals or intent, as the mechanism for the production of goals and intent fundamentally does not exist in AI models.

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Seriously, there ought to be a central place where every time an open source project either adds "AI" integration or code generated by "AI", the repo is forked from the last commit before infection so that someone can someday resume from that point.

(I'd have set this up already but I'm at an energy low and will be for a while yet.)

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Watching "once upon a witch's death" on Crunchyroll

Main character: "Genki da [followed by what sounds like] ko res ne".

Even I know enough Japanese to know "Genki da, ne?" Means "she's so lively, right?"

Subtitles: "She's so full of beans!"

…What?

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本当に総理として、あるいは政治家として根本的な能力に欠けている人を総理にしてしまった。

首相の「地方は東京を見習って」発言に違和感 平井知事、県議会で言及 | 日本海新聞 NetNihonkai nnn.co.jp/articles/-/651252

 鳥取県の平井伸治知事は3日の県議会12月定例会本会議で、高市早苗首相と11月19日に面会した際、首相が人口減少問題について「地方は東京を見習って」と発言したことに言及。地方の人口減少の背景には東京一極集中があることを踏まえて「何だろうかなと思った」と違和感を口にした。

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本当に総理として、あるいは政治家として根本的な能力に欠けている人を総理にしてしまった。

首相の「地方は東京を見習って」発言に違和感 平井知事、県議会で言及 | 日本海新聞 NetNihonkai nnn.co.jp/articles/-/651252

 鳥取県の平井伸治知事は3日の県議会12月定例会本会議で、高市早苗首相と11月19日に面会した際、首相が人口減少問題について「地方は東京を見習って」と発言したことに言及。地方の人口減少の背景には東京一極集中があることを踏まえて「何だろうかなと思った」と違和感を口にした。

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That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)

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So long, Frank Gehry, and thanks for all the fish!

(We have our own blinding architectural landmark on the east bank of the river at the University of Minnesota.)

'With the advent of new computer technologies, Mr. Gehry’s work became increasingly sculptural. For the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he designed a monumental fish sculpture using software developed for the French aerospace industry. It was one of a number of massive sculptures he created, including the 1986 “Standing Glass Fish” at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis (where he would go on to design a 1993 building clad in faceted steel plates that resembled tinfoil) and the 1987 “Fish Dance” in Kobe, Japan.'

Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96
nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/de

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