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New comment by joshpicky in "Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?"

joshpicky — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:17:52 +0000

My question with this is about intent. If asm programming really becomes a lost art for humans. The question then becomes who will impart the intent or mission to LLMS to connect this ideas.

Remains me of an interesting article I read a month ago. About how LLMs can be “anti-meme generators” as in Memetics.

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/anti_meme_explosion

New comment by joshpicky in "They Stole Our Code, Now They Want Our Brains (March 2026)"

joshpicky — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:20:21 +0000

Laterally the most valuable stream of data in the history. Not only you can profile people extremely accurately if you had let’s say all their ChatGPT sessions and a way to manipulate future responses, if you wanted to suppress an idea this will also probably be the best way to block it even before it even forms.

New comment by joshpicky in "They Stole Our Code, Now They Want Our Brains (March 2026)"

joshpicky — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:56:19 +0000

Used to think user sessions where too LLM driven for they to be useful in RL. But recent Navier Stokes drama makes me think given enough data and user profiling they should be able to extract the intuition out of users. And probably they are doing it at scale

New comment by joshpicky in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

joshpicky — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:24:43 +0000

I think this is a very common sentiment among a lot of people, including me.

And also that’s why AI tools create mix reactions. A couple of months ago a post went viral which was really insightful on what I was originally drawn to cs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264

New comment by joshpicky in "Antimemetics"

joshpicky — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:03:07 +0000

I think that was the starting point of author. Similar to “meme” the term is too broad on purpose, so you come up with different possible ideas depending where you started from

New comment by joshpicky in "Antimemetics"

joshpicky — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:14:59 +0000

Agree that’s kind of the hard part of trying to categorize them.

Spatial and temporal locality can be a thing. And depending on how you take them into account they can be more or less clear categories

New comment by joshpicky in "Antimemetics"

joshpicky — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:32:28 +0000

The book is better conceptually than history wise.

Interesting your type 4 final stage nihilism, not sure if it will consider a type 4 given that it only self destructive.

Antimemetics

joshpicky — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:11:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jernesto.com/articles/anti_meme_explosion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723747

Points: 6

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New comment by joshpicky in "Sloprank – AI-slop scoring for your GitHub repo"

joshpicky — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:15:51 +0000

Not impossible if Claude is the main contributor, almost all repos I see now now has it in the top 3

New comment by joshpicky in "AI Paranoia: A Conspiracy of Incentives"

joshpicky — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:11:08 +0000

I read the author’s previous blog. I feel like I had a similar path regarding my thoughts in AI, and came to a similar realization but never quite put it words.

New comment by joshpicky in "Trying Linux Desktop yet Again with More Success"

joshpicky — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:10:18 +0000

The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has always been a meme, but posts like this show we’ve hit a silent inflection point. When a long-time macOS power user finds the transition "uneventful" (save for some shortcut muscle memory), it says a lot about the polish of modern Fedora.

New comment by joshpicky in "I miss thinking hard"

joshpicky — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:57:29 +0000

I generally feel the same. But in addition, I also enjoy the pure act of coding. At least for me that’s another big part why I feel left behind with all this Agent stuff.

New comment by joshpicky in "On-demand learning comes at the cost of conceptual understanding"

joshpicky — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:00:48 +0000

As I see it learning “on-demand” is good enough for most programming tasks. But I agree with the blog post tat the situations you mentioned where a person can actually learn new theory and perhaps push the boundaries are increasingly rarer.

New comment by joshpicky in "On-demand learning comes at the cost of conceptual understanding"

joshpicky — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:34:01 +0000

Agreed, but the terminology doesn’t seems to be the point. It makes some decent arguments about “on-demand” learning not being great for learning theoretical things.