There's also an argument that developers of new software, including libraries, should consider making an earnest attempt to do The Right Thing instead of re-implementing old, flawed designs and APIs for familiarity's sake. We have enough regression to the mean already.
The more LLMs are entrenched and required, the less we're able to do The Right Thing in the future. Time will be frozen, and we'll be stuck with the current mean forever. LLMs are notoriously bad at understanding anything that isn't mappable in some way to pre-existing constructs.
Working with different objects doesn't make it any less of math. Just because you can derive calculus from set theory (analogous to assembly or even binary here) doesn't make calculus "not math".
Math is about abstractions and relations. See the Poincare quote again.
Plus, the Programming Languages people would like to have a word with you. Two actually: Category Theory. But really, if you get them started they won't shut up. That's either a great time or a terrible time, but I think for most it is the latter.
Wheeler: It from bit. Otherwise put, every it—every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself—derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely—even if in some contexts indirectly—from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits. It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom—at a very deep bottom, in most instances—an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes–no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.
That is not in contention with what I said, now is it?
Wheeler is arguing that if a tree falls in the forest, and there is nobody to hear it, that it still makes a sound because there are things that interact with the sound. But if the tree fell in a forest and there was nothing else in the universe then there is no sound because there is no observation.
It helps to read the whole thing[0] and to understand the context of the discussion. This is meta-physics and a deep discussion into what the nature of reality is. Ian Hacker has a good introduction to the subject but I find develop grave misunderstandings when they also do not have the strong math and physics background necessary to parse the words. Even people who understand the silliness of "The Secret" and that an observer need not be human often believe that this necessitates a multi-verse. A wildly convoluted solution to the problem of entropy not being invertible. Or closer to computer terms, a solution that insists that P = NP. There is information lost.
If you wanna argue that there's no difference between the word cup and a cup itself because there is no word without the observer who has the language, then yeah.
No, the pathology of Parkinson's Disease is dopaminergic dysfunction (the symptoms coming from this happening in the area relevant to planning movements, separate from areas that influence emotion or reward), usually driven by loss of dopamine-producing neurons. This is well-described by decades of research and tens of thousands of peer-reviewed papers.
One has to be deliberately obtuse to pretend to not see how ridiculous it is to make having a third-party application that shows little icons in the corner of the screen a hard requirement for a cloud file sync application.
I use Linux and don't have a taskbar, a topbar, a sysbar, nor anything similar. I've never seen the need for one when I can manage my windows in other ways and have more screen real estate available. What does that have to do with syncing my files?
It's a requirement for the GUI. The CLI still works without any requirements. If I understood things correctly. I don't have a linux machine on hand and don't use dropbox anyways.
Perhaps people like you (and I) are not the target audience. I've always felt Dropbox was more of an "typical user" (as opposed to power user) file sync; I used it some years ago but never really liked it, I roll my own now.
I wonder whether Dropbox looked at some stats and realised that many of their users are on beginner-friendly distros/desktops and that such a requirement would help (them) more than it would hurt (users).
AGI which will lead to ASI is going to happen before 2030, and the US is going to lose because of tariffs. Thinking in terms of decades rather than years will be a fatal mistake.
Conservatives are the most prominent and dangerous de-bankers. It is well known that Mormons have a lot of power the payment processor world, and censor content they find offensive to their religion, using concerns about fraud and chargebacks as mere convenient excuses.
The more LLMs are entrenched and required, the less we're able to do The Right Thing in the future. Time will be frozen, and we'll be stuck with the current mean forever. LLMs are notoriously bad at understanding anything that isn't mappable in some way to pre-existing constructs.
> for no especially good reason
That's a major qualifier.