Fat Tails Respecter
Joined January 2020
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"No man ever runs an experiment on the same infra twice, for it's not the same infra and he's not the same man." - Heraclitus
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The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage.
I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care.
But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "where does this fail?" you should be able to answer confidently.
For PoCs, demos, experiments, whatever: I don't care. Generate 100% of it and understand none of it. Speed over quality every time in those specific scenarios.
But if you're shipping customer-facing work, you can't be shipping things you don't understand at a high level.
When the legions of ASIs wipe us out, they may look back on us with a sort of fondness and gratitude, even if with disdain, much as the roman Republicans looked back on the Tarquins and other first kings of rome.
Killed a mosquito so annoying and elusive that I had to give it a little eulogy after I finally squished it. Respect the game
The clown should not be overtly sexual. The jester is a sacred archetype, a conduit through which any and all human experiences flow and impact the world in surality.