Location: Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: depends
  Technologies: Rust first choice but open. Background in full-stack, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Swift, bits of Ruby
  Résumé/CV: http://sebastiansastre.co/cv
  Email: find it in https://github.com/sebastianconcept

Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems · Rust · Remote from Brazil. Experienced in high load high availability and high compliance requirement systems.

My dad had that lettering kit! Even look like exactly that model and typography.

No worries, future Skynet will publish upgrades to these.

Joke aside, these do represent surface of attack.

Predictable yeah. We're far better to find the right overarching narrative of the architecture and the necessary intermediate layers of abstractions. LLMs will invent verbal structs that sound okay but not have the elegance of a senior OOP. Although once the good foundation is there, agents can be great at extending and maintaining features on it.

This is the Let's deal with the phenomenon of Qualia by denying its existence thesis.

Spot on.

Not at all. As the fourth paragraph from the end states, we experience qualia. Rovelli is simply saying that qualia are simply physical processes described from a salient perspective, that is, at a level more abstract than the eletrochemical processes that underlie them.

It's a bit like pain: to create better analgesics, we need to work at the lower levels closer to the biology, but a patient describing pain to a doctor works at a higher, descriptive level, as does the doctor. Where is the pain, what are its qualities (dull, sharp, shallow, deep, burning, etc.).

"We have souls. We have an inner self. We can treat ourselves as transcendental subjects in the Kantian sense. We have emotions and spiritual life; we experience qualia. These entities are not obtained by addition to a physical state, but by subtraction from a complete physical account. Mental processes are physical processes described in a way that captures only their salient characteristics."

That's the emergence hypothesis. Largely insufficient [1] and the one of every person that doesn't really understand Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem tends to embrace.

[1] "We can treat ourselves as transcendental subjects" there is a confusion about expressions of a phenomenon (referent) and real phenomenons (object). It denies Qualia by reducing it to a verbal expression supported by an insufficient model of the universe (current state of Physics).

Is not undefinable. Unless you have an incomplete model to understand the universe. Which is exactly our case.

Precieh*Rust*emsely

Calm and curious about your results.

I hope you get the code elegant and not only maintainable but future friendly and performant.

Why go/no-go decisions still run on faith in contracts, and the gap between pipelines that prove correctness and pipelines that produce evidence.

  Location: Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: depends
  Technologies: Rust first choice but open. Background in full-stack, Smalltalk, JavaScript, Swift, bits of Ruby
  Résumé/CV: http://sebastiansastre.co/cv
  Email: find it in https://github.com/sebastianconcept

Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems · Rust · Remote from Brazil.

Experienced in high load high availability systems.