Never understood that if statement style, it seems to only exist to create subtle bugs.

I think of it as BSD style, though of course it could be suggested/mandated elsewhere -

  [...]Use a space after keywords (if, while, for, return, switch). No braces are used for control statements with zero or only a single statement unless that statement is more than a single line, in which case they are permitted.[0]

As I look, GNU guide is less specific, but examples[1] show the same style.

The good thing is that -Wmisleading-indentation [2] (comes along with -Wall) catches this indentation error.

[0] https://man.openbsd.org/style - happens to be same for at least NetBSD.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Syntactic-Conve...

[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html

It's slightly less lines of code which is nice. I'm someone who prefers terseness so I get it.

However, it's bad. I much prefer the rare, elusive, postfix if:

   goto fail if (condition);

It can create some very readable code when used right, with short and simple conditionals.

I think AI is super cool and use it everyday, I also think its likely to cause extreme human suffering.

If AGI is let loose on the world I am confident millions of people are going to die.

> I also think its likely to cause extreme human suffering

yeah no. thinking this way is hyperbolic and just plain wrong

The same way humans deal with it, check it against multiple reputable sources.

We already learned how to defeat this from SEO spammers and citation farmers: by building networks that cross reference and corroborate one another’s fake stories.

We’re already at a point where much of the academic research you find in online databases can’t be trusted without vetting through real world trustworthy institutions and experts in relevant fields. How is an LLM supposed to do this kind of vetting without the help of human curators?

If all the LLM training teams have to stop indiscriminate crawling and fall back to human curation and data labeling then the poisoners will have won.

Some of the reputable sources are taking flood of the lies for possible truth. Now what?

Also aren't models like Mythos capable of checking for poison data on their own at this point?

A sauna will do nothing for muscular-skeletal health.

That seems like a very strong statement. Isn’t there evidence that Heat Shock Proteins are produced in response to time in the sauna, which have beneficial effects on muscle growth and repair?

>which have beneficial effects on muscle growth and repair?

Repair from what?

I think someone would much sooner switch to a competitor than up their tier.

If model provider believes they have a better model, it can be a viable bet. But many (me included) started experimenting with other providers because of enshittification from Anthropic (price + uptime). Only to find, that Codex is not that worse in quality for a significantly more output per $.

It's weird enough to feel performative but not weird enough to be interesting.

So if someone enthusiastically shows me some crazy game mechanic they made and I say "that's cool", I am using the word "cool" incorrectly?

"cool!" (especially for the uncool) has always meant something that resonates emotionally with you - keep using it that way.

"cool..." means the flat, disconnected response - we don't need any more of that.

This post is definitely about the former, and we can double down by not letting the wet blankets in the comments use the latter to tell us "you're doing it wrong".

No, you are using it ironically. The connotation of a word is entirely contextual.

It seems like the US never really reovered fully from the Civil War, and the undercurrent of racism has just been allowed to fully come to the surface with social media.

No one forced Elon to kill a million Africans. He could have just like, not done that.