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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Depends on their definition of “working” .

    I tried asking an AI to make a basic webrtc client to make audio calls - something that has hundreds of examples on the web about how to do it from the first line of code to the very last. It did generate a complete webrtc client for audio calls I could launch and see working, it just had a couple tiny bugs:

    • you needed an user id to call someone and one was only generated when you call (effectively meaning you can only call people if they are calling someone)
    • if you fixed the above and managed to make a call between two users, the audio was exchanged but never played.

    Technically speaking, all of the small parts worked, they just didn’t work together. I can totally see someone ignoring that fact and treating this as an example of “working code”.









  • I had a dream a couple weeks ago where I was reading some news about penguins developing a language to talk to each other. And in the dream I was wondering if we as humans were in any way hindering the penguins’ capacity to evolve into a sentient species - then realized they were already so close to us. They have arms and legs, can use tools, talk with a structured language and everything - what kept them being labeled as plain animals if they did all that?

    In the afternoon I suddenly remembered the dream and for a split second was kinda agreeing with my dream’s argument, until I realized the penguins in the dream were closer to Animal Crossing characters than to actually penguins.