Eric Scrivner (etscrivner)

ChatGPT is like micro-transactions but for intellectual work. Before, many tasks were too cheap / simple to justify finding and paying someone to do them - so you just did them yourself. Now, those tasks are cheaply off-loadable to an AI assistant. Suddenly everyone can afford a reasonably competent assistant.

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CPU instruction tests passing. Snagged on timers and instruction timing.

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Wrote up a short document on how to make GameBoy opcode parsing more manageable. Takes 501 cases down to 53 cases. I figure this could be useful for folks writing GameBoy emulators. https://oh4-apps.us-southeast-1.linodeobjects.com/gb_cpu.html https://i.imgur.com/1DbuqNF.jpg

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ChatGPT is like micro-transactions but for intellectual work. Before, many tasks were too cheap / simple to justify finding and paying someone to do them - so you just did them yourself. Now, those tasks are cheaply off-loadable to an AI assistant. Suddenly everyone can afford a reasonably competent assistant.

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There’s a rough Kantian analogy to software: Data structures as intuitions/representations, functions and objects as concepts/judgments, and tests as predicates of determinations for these concepts.

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“Ex nihilo nihil fit” is the founding philosophical axiom of Atomism. The 1st law of thermodynamics is just a tautological restatement of this metaphysical presupposition on which atomic physics.

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Joining farcaster https://i.imgur.com/hu2G1Os.jpg

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