That and Brooks’ underrated “The Design of Design” are notable for having an almost impossible density of quotable aphorisms on every page. They’re all so relevant today that it’s hard to believe that he’s talking about problems he faced half a century ago.
Never heard of "The Design of Design" but I bought it off this comment chain.
I think our industry would do a lot to take a moment and breath to understand what we have collectively done since inception. Wonder often if we will look at the highly corporatized influence our industry has had during our time as the dark ages 1000s of years into the future. The idea that private enterprise should shape the direction of our industry is deeply problematic, there needs to be public option and I doubt many devs would disagree.
I just built something similar, specific to Claude Code. It runs as a transparent HTTP proxy that reads & rewrites the entire messages array that CC sends to its API. Same “dreaming” consolidation approach (using Haiku and another instance of CC itself, so it uses your subscription). Check it out!
> lower-class people are in a sort of local maxima
If the writer knew that the correct term is “maximum” (singular) and misused the Latin on purpose, this is brilliant. Failing that, it’s still a wonderful inadvertent enactment of the thesis. Well done either way.
I don’t know, Simon has had a pretty sane and level head on his shoulders on this stuff. To my mind he’s earned the right to be taken seriously when talking about approaches he has found helpful.
If someone with coprolalia is involuntarily induced to say the most awful, inappropriate thing possible in a given situation, doesn’t shouting slurs show that they aren’t racist?
Someone who is deeply racist would presumably consider racial slurs to be neutral statements, and not actually care about who they are offending. I wonder if that would actually steer the coprolalia away from racial slurs and toward something else that one has internalized as truly “offensive”.
A racist knows that the slurs are offensive. He knows that people will be hurt by it.
He may also use the term even when he doesn't intend to harm people -- just as you might casually use otherwise-offensive words for excretion or copulation. But you don't use them in polite company because you know that they bother people.
Hi! Have you published the concept dictionary yet? I’m looking into using Steerling to investigate how different moral scenarios elicit various responses in LLMs (using Haidt MFT concepts mostly), and my first few inference runs have been hamstrung by not having a canonical mapping of concepts to IDs. Thanks!
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