Is it? Evolution also seems to be a result of semi-random crap over the span of millenia and nobody is critiquing it like that.
replyWhy should throwing ideas at the wall in regards to optimizing code be any different: as long as you can measure and verify it, are okay with added complexity, and are capable of making the code itself not be crap by the end of it?
If an approach is found that improves how well something works, you can even treat the AI slop as a draft and iterate upon it yourself further.
It's basically saying to randomly slop something and see if it gets better. Evolution has physical principles and guard rails backing it. Here there are no principals whatsoever, just slopping the slopper to see if it's somehow less sloppy then writing a gist with a slop machine.
replyI wouldn't call it karpathys loop I'd call it slop descent. Or descent into slop. Or something like that
Evolution very much involves random mutations that turn out useless or harmful and thus don't spread.
replyThis is in fact less random than how generic algorithms used to work traditionally which encoded behaviors in some data structure that then got randomly mutated or crossed with other candidates in the pool.
I am aware of what biological evolution is. This isn't analogous. I love my software friends, I'm a software person now too, but the level at which people take algorithms that involve any level of biomimicry as a model for actual biology is frustrating.
replyIt does burn holes in ones brain doesn't it... At least with the silly sorting algorithms we know they are supposed to be silly...
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