so much of your comments AND code act as context rot and you don’t even realize it
ban and delete most if not all code comments!
agents love copying what already exists. a seemingly harmless comment explaining some temporary workaround is one of the worst viruses you can have in your codebase. like a weed it'll spread quickly as a tool for agents to quickly get their job done. before you know it, your codebase is overrun with hacks and stale comments. just one more workaround bro
you can use pstack's /no-comments skill as a weedkiller. it'll seek out useless comments while keeping the ones that actually should exist (like explaining a browser quirk), and figure out how to solve them on a first principles basis
here's a prompt you can try asking @bot:
create a project agent that uses /poteto-mode to spawn a /swarm to use /no-comments and identify useless code comments we can prune in my repo. come back with a high level plan of which of these workarounds would be best solved by refactoring and which we can straight up delete
x.ai/bot/plugin/971…
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I just love that we are grappling with the idea of machine consciousness
I’m still in the “LLMs are not there yet” camp..
what an amazing time to be alive
I’m still in the “LLMs are not there yet” camp..
what an amazing time to be alive
Arguing that "consciousness arises from a computational substrate, and since AI models are computation, they are likely conscious," is as meaningless as arguing that "living creatures are made of atoms, and since this rock is made of atoms, it is likely alive."
Everything is computation. Sometimes incredibly sophisticated computation, like a chess engine, AlphaGo, google3, or the Linux kernel. That does not make it conscious. A rock being made of atoms does not confer it any of the properties we associate with living things, also made of atoms. Likewise a static input-output program that has *none* of the properties we associate with conscious beings (e.g. information integration, interoception, temporal binding, embodiment, etc.) has no more reason to be presumed conscious than a rock has to be presumed alive.
Humanity has not yet created a conscious computer program, and there are no signs we are close to doing so. When we get close, the case for machine consciousness will be backed by evidence and corroborated by consciousness science (which is a thing), not by evidence-free wishful thinking and cargo culting.
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