Evinceo

PCJ -> Programming Circlejerk.

I was wasn't expecting a serious treatment of this very silly idea, my mistake. I submit that it would cause enough difficult to diagnose bugs while just messing with it that you would never get into 'but are the builds reproducible' territory.

I can’t imagine the peer pressure dynamics in such a dating environment to be too healthy.

No imagination required.

This reads like a PCJ comment, bravo. I'll do one for rust:

If an LLM cannot insult the user for having the tremerity to try and compile code, it's not compatible for use with the Rust compiler.

How can these imaginary conversations be so long. I ain't reading all that. Congratulations, or sorry that that happened.

If only rationalist shaming helped reduce overthinking.

It's their fancy way of saying 'I think.'

Should be the header image or sidebar or whatever for this lemmy.

Every time a Rationalist mentions Von Neumann, take a shot.

AI turned out to be too hard, let's try aligning microbes.

HN: Just rinse out your mouth with water after eating and no cavities. Dentists hate this one weird trick.

Ok, read their actual pitch. Lmao they think that a one time introduction of a GMO bacteria strain is going to 'just work' because they've also GMO'd it to outcompete other bacteria?

There's a reason we aren't running our cars on yeast-produced gasoline. No matter how awesome your tuned microbe is, it's still subject to mutation and natural selection. If your beneficial changes aren't actually helping it survive, they will not be conserved. And those 'competitive' changes you jacked it up with to make sure it dominates the environment? Well, that might end up horizontally transferred into something you don't like.

About the right amount of 'we humans are smarter than dumb biology' metal-fetishism I'd expect from the folks concerned.

Also there's this obsession with calling this folly 'experimenting with government' as though they aren't always trying the exact same thing over and over again.