Skeptics Guide to the Universe

This comment raises an interesting question: Would Serenity OS have brought Andreas the same kind of serenity had it been developed with AI? Open candid question.

I don't think so because if I remember it correctly, Andreas suffered from alcoholism and serenity prayer helped him to go on the right path and iirc he honored that and created an os named serenityos.

God grant me the serenity

to accept the things I cannot change;

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

(courage to change the things I can;):- I think that this line must've given Andreas the strength, the passion to make the project reality.

but if AI made the change. Would the line be changed to courage to prompt an all powerful entity to change the things I asked it to.

Would that give courage? Would that inspire confidence in oneself?

I have personally made many projects with LLM's (honestly I must admit that I am a teenager and so I have been sort of using it from the start)

and personally, I feel like there are some points of curiosity that I can be prideful of in my projects but there is still a sense of emptiness and I think I am not the only one who observes it as such.

I think in the world of AI hype, it takes true courage & passion to write by hand.

Obviously one tries to argue that AI is the next bytecode but that is false because of the non deterministic nature of AI but even that being said, I think I personally feel as if the people who write assembly are definitely likely to be more passionate of their craft than Nodejs (and I would consider myself a nodejs guy and there's still passion but still)

Coding was definitely a form of art/expression/sense-of-meaning for Mr Andreas during a time of struggle. To automate that might strip him of the joy derived from stroking brush on an empty canvas.

Honestly, I really don't know about AI the more I think about it so I will not pretend that I know a thing/two about AI. This message is just my opinion in the moment. Opinions change with time but my opinion right now is that coding by hand definitely is more meaningful than not if the purpose of the project is to derive meaning.

I like the idea that people are either coders or builders. So AI can help fulfill your desire to build, create, bring things into reality. But it can't satisfy you if you like programming for its own sake. SerenityOS was not a practical project, it was clearly done for the enjoyment of programming itself.

The project's use of AI now echoes that - it's not being used to create new features, it's used for practical, boring drudge work of translating between two languages. So still very much on brand.

> design entire OSes with coding agents

They ported an existing project from CPP to Rust using AI because the porting would've been too tedious. I don't think they're planning on vibe coding PRs the way you're imagining.

He already did

Yeah, some weekends ago I tried writing a cross-platform browser without any Rust crates, this weekend I made my own self-hosted compile to Rust Clojure-like lisp, maybe next weekend attempting to create a OS that uses my language to run on bare-metal would actually be a challenge. Thanks for the inspiration :)

Not at all if you consider the internet pre-LLM. That is the standard expectation when you load a website.

The slow word-by-word typing was what we started to get used to with LLMs.

If these techniques get widespread, we may grow accustomed to the "old" speed again where content loads ~instantly.

Imagine a content forest like Wikipedia instantly generated like a Minecraft word...

> Base64-encoded secret in URL Prevented Detected (entropy scan) Logged

Ok so how does this "Entropy scan" work?

Apparently by defining "bits per character"

https://github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelock/blob/3021f023b0e...

So I guess converting the secret to pure binary will evade the "entropy scanner"?

Or many of the other base encodings?

> Because if it’s worth your time to lie, it’s worth my time to correct it.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/if-its-worth-your-time-to-l...

> and I expect within the next ~2 years AI tools will produce a better compiler than gcc

and the "anti" crowd will point to some exotic architecture where it is worse

No, they will point out that the way to make GCC better is not really in the code itself. It's in scientific paper writing and new approaches. Implementation is really not the most work.

Step 2: outlets slap this disclaimer on all content, regardless of AI usage, making it useless

Step 3: regulator prohibits putting label on content that is not AI generated

Step 4: outlets make sure to use AI for all content

Let's call it the "Sesame effect"

This would be an improvement in my book.

I'm a data journalist, and I use AI in some of my work (data processing, classification, OCR, etc.). I always disclose it in a "Methodology" section in the story. I wouldn't trust any reporting that didn't disclose the use of AI, and if an outlet slapped a disclaimer on their entire site, I wouldn't trust that outlet.

So every time a reporter researches something and does a Google search and Gemini results pop up now AI use has to be added to the methodology section and basically 100% of all articles have the "AI use" label attached.

Yes because it would tell me immediately that the reporter can be safely ignored.

Yes, just the same as I would expect an encyclopedia reference called out for not being a primary source of a declared fact.

If they use the information from the AI summary without checking, then definitely, they'd be a rubbish reporter.

Or

Step 1: those outlets that actually do the work see an increase in subscribers.

Alternative timeline

Step 2.5: 'unlike those news outlets, all our work is verified by humans'

Step 3: work as intended.

have you read the linked page?

> However, since immunizations are given to about 90 percent of children less than 1 year of age, and about 1,600 cases of SIDS occur every year, it would be expected, statistically, that every year about 50 cases of SIDS will occur within 24 hours of receipt of a vaccine. However, because the incidence of SIDS is the same in children who do or do not receive vaccines, we know that SIDS is not caused by vaccines.

the Kaufland ones where I live still have weight sensors which for me completely eliminates the appeal

Do you believe that it is impossible to advertise, spread fake news or propaganda via text?

Do you know what the letters in LLM mean?

Tell me where the slop is distrubuted on? Its 99% Social media, fake news sites, propaganda like fox or any russian "news site" or some combo of the above.

If we dont have any of the above the propaganda or AI slop is just not worth it.

This is why having small focused MODERATED communities is the only viable future.