There’s a lot of levels at which I could reply to this comment, because it’s quite a philosophical topic, but let me clarify what I meant at the end of my last comment, before writing a wall of text here :)

As I said in my previous comment, faith is largely a means to make sense of our subjective experiences. We can refine our faith by talking about our experiences with other people.

So the most basic fallacy I was alluding to, from people who believe you can refine your faith by talking with an LLM is this: An LLM has no subjective experiences, because it doesn’t experience anything at all. This is one way how using the output from an LLM as a source of inspiration for your faith sets you up for psychosis. You start believing things that have no basis in reality or anyone’s genuine experiences. Rather, you may start believing in machine-generated approximations from which coherence has been lost.

But it seems your understanding was slightly different, in that people might develop their own sense of faith from experiences with an LLM itself rather than through the exchange of presumed experiences with the LLM. Do I understand correctly that you think some people attribute godlike qualities to the LLM, maybe through the presumption that it is an AGI? That would be a bit of a different discussion indeed :)

I’m not the person you responded to, but I can try to take a stab at that…

for a concept that prohibits proof as part of it’s definition, how do you determine that one faith (or system) is better than another?

Objectively, you don’t. But people’s experiences go beyond the objective, and we all have our subjective experiences too. Faith is how we make sense of those.

The question then isn’t, which one is better, but whose other experiences and faiths do we relate to? We build friendships and alliances based on those. Not because they’re better, per se, but because we feel comfortable or safe with them.

From that perspective it makes a lot of sense that we value other humans, because they can make us feel understood and appreciated, and we can exchange ideas with them which in turn refines our faith. Now, some people get tricked into thinking you can do the same with machines, but well, I think you can guess where I too stand on that idea.

I used Elixir for a project in 2024, though I was not the lead on the backend part, so my exposure was limited. Still got a nice taste of it, and have to say I was positively impressed.

The Erlang VM is kind of amazing in the capabilities that it offers, and integrating with external languages was also easier than I thought it would be (we had a Rust core that we needed to link in).

As for Elixir specifically: the language is nice, but its Achilles heel is definitely that it’s dynamically typed. For this reason I would suggest having a look at GLEAM, even though I have no personal experience with that and don’t know how mature it is.

This reminds me of the early PS3 days where some universities would buy loads of consoles, because the Cell processor was a great bang for its buck (thanks to Sony subsidising them) and they’d just jailbreak them and put them in data centres.

Heh, the name wasn’t chosen to reach a huge audience anyway. If I get too many users, I might lose my zen over trying to support them 😂

But I’m happy to have a few folks along who don’t mind building their IDE from source.

Thanks!

As for the motivation of the fork, basically two reasons:

• Even though you can disable AI features and configure the layout, the teasers and some UI elements remain as they try to draw you in.
• I want to use their UI framework and editor for a different project too, so I want to be able to start that from a trimmed down base anyway.

Hehe, I suppose it might to some extent 😅 But well, I don’t wish to control how others do their coding, and it would be silly to ignore other’s code altogether because they used a different method than the one I prefer.

Yeah, if you don’t mind the UI clutter/teasers, it doesn’t make much of a difference. For now, the most noticeable difference is that the default layout is more old-school, with the project layout and the git panel on the left-hand side again, though even without this fork you can configure it to be like that too.

Nothing wrong with them! But since I want to build another tool on top of it (for fiction/novel outlining and writing) I figured this was a good exercise to become familiar with the codebase. And since I still do some Rust development, having control over both my IDE and my writing software seemed an added benefit :)

I’ll aim to sync changes from upstream about once a month. But given that I don’t have prebuilt binaries or anything, for now I expect only people enthusiastic enough to build from source to use it :)

Pretty sure I would keep bumping my head trying to drink from that glass of water 😂

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I think it’s good for people to have children. At least one and preferably no more than two.

If we contain population growth, the riches already created are for the taking for generations to come and the planet finally gets a rest.

It does require a reckoning with the capitalist elite that would like to produce anyway, but I feel that may be coming regardless of our feelings towards children.

Your comment is fair. I try to follow my own philosophy, so I picked a side and stand for it. I feel strongly about it, so that’s why I may use hyperbole at times.

Yet I understand it’s not everybody’s opinion, so I try to respect those people even when I don’t necessarily respect their positions. It’s a tough line to draw sometimes.

So I’m the literal author of the Philosophy of Balance, and I don’t see any reason why LLMs are deserving of a balanced take.

This is how the Philosophy of Balance works: We should strive…

• for balance within ourselves
• for balance with those around us
• and ultimately, for balance with Life and the Universe at large

But here’s the thing: LLMs and the technocratic elite funding them are a net negative to humanity and the world at large. Therefore, to strive for a balanced approach towards AI puts you on the wrong side of the battle for humanity, and therefore human history.

Pick a side.

May the depression be long lasting and heartfelt in the United States of AI.

See here for a possible solution to turning a global China into a sustainable hybrid of communism and capitalism: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/new-monarchy/

Simple: if the toddler has found daddy’s gun because the safe was left open… you better try talking before you scare it.

As someone who dealt with psychosis in the past (diagnosed bipolar), I’ll happily say that psychosis is not a valid excuse to push bullshit onto others.

If you need others to point you to specifics, you need to rethink your life choices and stop using LLMs.

I have it on reliable authority that women like boobs too. Source: am married