Use amp; in all .cfg.php files.

Similar to how the blog works.

src/blog/2018-03-18-hosting-my-own-git.html.php

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ getting rid of the need for me to navigate web UIs. Something that annoyed me
 with GitLab, Github, NotABug, and alike, is that they make use of web
 interfaces for tasks like pull requests, creating repos, issue trackers, etc.
 when most of these can be done with the same tool: a mailing list. I've already
-gone over this before in <a href="/blog/2017-05-02-patch-files.html" >my post on patch
+gone over this before in <a href="/blog/2017-05-02-patch-files" >my post on patch
 files</a>. What's more, now to create new repos I can just use a script I have
 made.</p>
 
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ alternative to git depending on how things go.</p>
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2019-09-18-how-to-split-tech-monopolies.html.php

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ merry way abusing people's data. But there's still something you can do
 about this. If you are truly worried about how your data is being used
 by these massive companies, look into decentralized alternatives. I have
 mentioned a few on the <a
-href="https://themusicinnoise.net/decentralized.html"
+href="https://themusicinnoise.net/decentralized"
 >Decentralized page</a> of my website, but you can find a much more
 complete list on <a href="https://prism-break.org/en/" target="_blank"
 >Prism-Break</a> (although not all are decentralized... but most are).
@@ -97,4 +97,4 @@ corporations will have over your data.</p>
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2019-12-23-dwm-and-sxhkd.cfg.php

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-$title = "dwm & sxhkd";
+$title = "dwm &amp; sxhkd";
 $description = "Using sxhkd with dwm to complete the UNIX way.";
 $created = "2019-12-23";
 $updated = "2019-12-23";

src/blog/2020-01-13-recipe:-pollo-picantito.cfg.php

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 $title = "Recipe: Pollo Picantito";
-$description = "A spicy chicken & rice dish.";
+$description = "A spicy chicken &amp; rice dish.";
 $created = "2020-01-13";
 $updated = "2020-01-13";
 ?>

src/blog/2020-03-11-new-category-and-content.cfg.php

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-$title = "New Category & Content";
+$title = "New Category &amp; Content";
 $description = "An introduction to the new 'Religion' category, and a short exposition of my conversion to the Catholic Faith.";
 $created = "2020-03-11";
 $updated = "2020-03-11";

src/blog/2020-12-05-sin-and-hell.cfg.php

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-$title = "Sin & Hell";
+$title = "Sin &amp; Hell";
 $description = "Perhaps the most controversial and scandalizing topic of the Faith are the issues of Sin and Hell, which makes us wonder why an all loving God would permit Sin or constitute something as a Sin, and then consequently condemn us to Hell for our sinning. Clarity is needed, but it cannot be found by beating around the bush.";
 $created = "2020-12-05";
 $updated = "2020-12-12";

src/blog/2021-06-17-the-extraordinary-form-revisted.html.php

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Christ's Church.</p>
 
 <ol class="refs" >
 	<li id="r1" >
-		<a href="2020-07-18-why-the-traditional-latin-mass.html" >
+		<a href="2020-07-18-why-the-traditional-latin-mass" >
 			"Why the Traditional Latin Mass" Blog Post
 		</a>
 	</li>
@@ -98,4 +98,4 @@ Christ's Church.</p>
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2021-07-07-why-income-inequality-is-not-directly-important.html.php

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ income and the Gini Coefficient.</p>
 
 <figure>
 	<img
-		src="https://media.themusicinnoise.net/imgs/blog/income-inequality-vs-median-income.png"
+		src="/imgs/blog/income-inequality-vs-median-income.png"
 		title="Income Inequality vs. Median Income"
 		alt="Income Inequality vs. Median Income Graph" />
 	<figcaption>
@@ -112,4 +112,4 @@ fix the right thing.</p>
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2021-08-24-taize-experience-and-liturgy.cfg.php

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-$title = "Taizé: Experience & Liturgy";
+$title = "Taizé: Experience &amp; Liturgy";
 $description = "After recently having spent a week in the Taizé Community in France, I wanted to write an article about my experience, as well as noting what I was able to reverse engineer about the liturgy they follow for their prayers.";
 $created = "2021-08-24";
 $updated = "2021-08-25";

src/blog/2022-02-17-account-proliferation.html.php

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ needed a place to rant about something stupid.</p>
 
 <ol class="refs" >
 	<li id="r1" >
-		<a href="/blog/2019-07-26-the-cancer-which-is-pre-installed-applications.html" >
+		<a href="/blog/2019-07-26-the-cancer-which-is-pre-installed-applications" >
 			"The Cancer which is Pre-Installed Applications" on The Music in
 			Noise Blog
 		</a>
@@ -61,4 +61,4 @@ needed a place to rant about something stupid.</p>
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2022-06-02-love-and-desire.html.php

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ themselves furthest from God, that by His grace they may be lead to Him.</p>
 <h2>References</h2>
 <ol class="refs" >
 	<li id="r1" >
-		<a href="https://themusicinnoise.net/blog/2020-12-12-what-is-love.html" >
+		<a href="https://themusicinnoise.net/blog/2020-12-12-what-is-love" >
 			"What is Love?" on The Music in Noise
 		</a>
 	</li>
@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ themselves furthest from God, that by His grace they may be lead to Him.</p>
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2022-07-28-beginners-guide-to-prayer.html.php

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ you.
 
 <ol class="refs" >
 	<li id="r1" >
-		<a href="/blog/2022-06-07-adoration.html" >
+		<a href="/blog/2022-06-07-adoration" >
 			"Adoration" on The Music in Noise
 		</a>
 	</li>
@@ -273,4 +273,4 @@ you.
 
 <?php
 require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
-?>
+?>

src/blog/2024-02-15-religion-and-politics.cfg.php

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
-$title = "Religion & Politics";
-$description = "An essay on the relationship between religion & politics, and how one's religious values may be legitimate in political conversation.";
+$title = "Religion &amp; Politics";
+$description = "An essay on the relationship between religion and politics, and how one's religious values may be legitimate in political conversation.";
 $created = "2024-02-15";
 $updated = "2024-02-15";
 ?>

src/blog/atom.xml.php

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ require 'config.php';
 <?php
 $dir_files = scandir(dirname(__FILE__), SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING);
 foreach($dir_files as $file_info) {
-	if(!str_ends_with($file_info, ".cfg.php"))
+	if(!str_ends_with($file_info, ".cfg.php") or str_starts_with($file_info, "draft_"))
 		continue;
 
 	require dirname(__FILE__) . "/" . $file_info;

src/blog/draft_ai-is-in-the-cave.cfg.php

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?php
+$title = "AI Is in the Cave";
+$description = "Delving into the (apparent) mystery of Large Language Models (a.k.a. AI) and why none of them are actually intelligent.";
+$created = "2025-03-13";
+$updated = "2025-03-13";
+?>

src/blog/draft_ai-is-in-the-cave.html.php

@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+<?php
+require 'config.php';
+require 'draft_ai-is-in-the-cave.cfg.php';
+require 'templates/blog-header.php';
+?>
+<p>
+For your average technological layman most digital technologies seem to pretty
+much be magic. Somehow a bunch of ones and zeros can be transformed into a movie
+which is streamed over cables and even thin-air until it reaches my tablet and
+is transformed to something actually recognizable on the screen. So it should
+come as no surprise that when it comes to Large Language Models (LLMs, a.k.a.
+AI) the usual amazement and mystification of technology reached new peaks as
+folks started speculating that perhaps this is truly the point where computers
+can pass the Turing Test, and the more enthusiastic among these would go
+further and say that perhaps even the machines could gain
+conciousness<sup><a href="#n1" >(1)</a></sup> if they have not already, all
+ultimately raising the question of whether we have reached the point of
+Singularity.<sup><a href="#n2" >(2)</a></sup> In fact, we could say that the
+capabilities of LLMs are so amazing that even some of the CEOs of these
+companies are suggesting they either have or may soon truly achieve
+consciousness.<sup><a href="#r1" >[1]</a></sup> However, if you were to ask
+these people how we can know that LLMs have reached this point the test
+provided is generally a very unsophisticated one: if it can ape human behavior,
+it must have an intellect at the same level as a human.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Now, for anyone who has some familiarity with Pro-Life apologetics, this kind
+of reasoning to determine personhood sounds extremely familiar, but is now
+being applied in the reverse. It is the attribution of personhood on the basis
+of what the thing <em>can do</em> in a specific stage of its development rather
+than on the basis of what <em>kind of being</em> the thing is. In the case of
+the unborn it is used to claim they do not have personhood because at that
+stage of their development they cannot do certain things, while in the case of
+LLMs it is used to claim they do have personhood because they can do these
+things (at least those things which we associate with the intellect). All this
+because our modern materialist culture cannot actually understand the concept
+of a <em>kind</em> of being, for all being is merely an assortment of atoms
+that just so happen to organize themselves in such a way that a conscious being
+is formed. Thus, to form other conscious beings all you have to do is put the
+same kinds of atoms together in the same pattern and you can reproduce life!
+And not any sort of life, but rational life at that. Furthermore, in the case
+of LLMs, it would seem that it is not even necessary for it to be the same
+kinds of atoms in the same pattern at all, but instead we can replace neurons
+and alike with transistors and other electronic elements, coded to interact
+with each other to do the same thing human beings have been doing for tens of
+thousands of years, and what pretty much most animals have been able to do as
+well: pattern recognition and replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The fact of the matter is that LLMs may seem, from a purely superficial
+standpoint, like a child who is slowly learning to speak. In the past few years
+we have seen drastic improvements as many of the tell-tale signs have been
+smoothed out of the algorithms. But even as they become indistinguishable from
+the product of actual human work, that does not mean that the means of arriving
+at that product are the same, and thus the value of the product itself is not
+the same. So we must ask ourselves: how <em>do</em> these LLMs work?
+</p>
+
+<h2>The Man Who “Learned” Chinese</h2>
+
+<p>
+It is not hard to find explanations on the Web that explain in a very technical
+manner how these LLMs work, but for most people these explanations are as good
+as a neuroscientist explaining how the brain works (which, at least for me,
+would be pretty useless). Luckily, it is not necessary to know how all the
+gears in an analog watch are interconnected versus the circuits in a digital
+watch in order to understand the principle of an analog watch's movement is
+kinetic energy and components pushing one another, whereas with the digital
+watch it is electrical signals passed through logical circuit components. The
+specifics do not really matter for these purposes. Therefore, for LLMs, I would
+like to offer an explanation of this principle through analogy which may be
+easier for people to understand.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Imagine there is a man who is a monolingual English speaker. Furthermore, he
+has no knowledge of grammatical concepts which would allow him to think
+abstractly about his language, much less any foreign language. Now let us say
+you gave this man hundreds, maybe thousands, or maybe even millions of years to
+look over Chinese texts. Some of them are books, fiction or non-fiction, some
+are articles, some are conversations, others are instruction manuals, etc. All
+sorts of texts of practically any kind. After such a long time he begins to
+notice some patterns, where normally certain symbols are followed by certain
+other symbols. And after all this time you begin to train him: you give him a
+text in Chinese and he has to try to return the proper pattern of symbols which
+ought to follow the ones you gave him. You, the one who knows Chinese, judge
+whether the response makes sense, and if so you give him positive feedback
+which tells him he did a good job (and will likely return similar responses for
+similar prompts), and if not you give him negative feedback which tells him he
+did a bad job (and will be less likely to return similar responses for similar
+prompts). After all this time, you finally have trained this man to the point
+where if any Chinese person were to speak with him over text prompts he could
+respond as if he spoke perfect Chinese and was truly having a conversation or
+writing meaningful texts. But is he?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you were to actually ask this man (in English) whether he had any idea what
+he was saying, he would obviously reply with a flat “Of course not,” but if you
+were to ask him in Chinese I do not think any of us would doubt that he would
+simply reply that he does, even though he clearly does not. The man has not
+actually learned Chinese, but rather to mimic Chinese. The reason for this is
+that he is not capable of doing the very thing that language is meant to do:
+convey <em>meaning</em>. Sure, a Chinese speaker may find meaning in the texts
+he writes, but that meaning is not his meaning. This language is no longer one
+rational agent communicating his ideas to another rational agent, but merely a
+single rational agent trying to induce a meaning into a text that wasn't
+infused with meaning to begin with.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It is from this understanding that some of the various flaws of LLMs begin to
+make sense. For example, the reason why they cannot accurately cite sources is
+because, firstly, they do not know what a source even is, but secondly, because
+it is simply looking back into its data and checking what usually follows
+within that context with the parameters of “citing the source,” which is why it
+so often simply makes them up. The truth is that its source is <em>all</em> its
+data mashed together probabilistically based on the input prompt and the
+context of the overall “conversation.”
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Getting back, however, to a question raised earlier about the level of
+consciousness of these LLMs, although in the analogy given above the man surely
+has a rational soul and a human intellect, it is also evident how it is not
+necessary to make use of these higher faculties in order to do what these
+machines can do: it is merely pattern recognition and probabilistic
+computation. This is something that even the beasts could do if sufficiently
+trained (think of the example of a parrot). The machine has no concept of the
+<em>meaning</em> symbolized by these words; in fact, it does not see them as
+symbols at all, but tokens with numerical values. And if it cannot comprehend
+meaning, then it certainly cannot reason on the basis of meaning. What is more,
+this is not simply a question of needing more training or more data, it is a
+matter of the process itself; for no matter how much you train the man in the
+analogy with more data and better pattern recognition techniques, he never will
+have actually learned Chinese until he starts to associate meaning those
+symbols and is thus able to reason a response instead of merely guessing what
+tokens go next.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Here Be Demons</h2>
+
+<h2>Hammers Are for Nails</h2>
+
+<h2>Resources</h2>
+<h3>Notes</h3>
+<ol class="notes" >
+	<li id="n1" >
+		Some people confuse the Turing Test to be an indicator that a machine
+		<em>has</em> reached conciousness, but this is a misunderstanding. The
+		test merely indicates that in a blind-folded scenario a human cannot
+		tell whether they are talking to another human or a machine, usually via
+		a text prompt.
+	</li>
+	<li id="n2" >
+		Singularity in this context is understood as a point-of-no-return past
+		which the advances of technological complexity are beyond our control.
+	</li>
+</ol>
+<h3>References</h3>
+<ol class="refs" >
+	<li id="r1" ><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/anthropics-ceo-wonders-if-future-ai-should-have-option-to-quit-unpleasant-tasks/" target="_blank" >Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism - Ars Technica</a></li>
+</ol>
+<?php
+require 'templates/blog-footer.php';
+?>

src/blog/index.html.php

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ foreach($dir_files as $file_info) {
 		continue;
 
 	require dirname(__FILE__) . "/" . $file_info;
-	$post_url = str_replace(".cfg.php", ".html", $file_info);
+	$post_url = str_replace(".cfg.php", "", $file_info);
 ?>
 	<li><time><?= $created ?></time> - <a href="<?= $post_url ?>" ><?= $title ?></a></li>
 <?php

src/blog/rss.xml.php

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ require 'config.php';
 <?php
 $dir_files = scandir(dirname(__FILE__), SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING);
 foreach($dir_files as $file_info) {
-	if(!str_ends_with($file_info, ".cfg.php"))
+	if(!str_ends_with($file_info, ".cfg.php") or str_starts_with($file_info, "draft_"))
 		continue;
 
 	require dirname(__FILE__) . "/" . $file_info;

src/contact.html.php

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ to encrypt your e-mails following their very simple instructions.</p>
 <h2>Matrix</h2>
 <p>Alias: @nortega:matrix.org</p>
 <ul>
-	<li>#flatpak:matrix.org</li>
+	<li>#debian:matrix.debian.social</li>
 </ul>
 
 <?php

src/poetry/index.html.php

@@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ expect much.</p>
 
 <ul>
 <?php
-$dir_files = scandir(dirname(__FILE__) . "/poetry/", SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING);
+$dir_files = scandir(dirname(__FILE__), SCANDIR_SORT_DESCENDING);
 foreach($dir_files as $file_info) {
 	if(!str_ends_with($file_info, ".cfg.php") or str_starts_with($file_info, "draft_"))
 		continue;
 
-	require dirname(__FILE__) . "/poetry/" . $file_info;
-	$post_url = "poetry/" . str_replace(".cfg.php", ".html", $file_info);
+	require dirname(__FILE__) . "/" . $file_info;
+	$post_url = str_replace(".cfg.php", "", $file_info);
 ?>
 	<li><a href="<?= $post_url ?>" ><?= $title ?></a></li>
 <?php

src/robots.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /contact
+Disallow: /docs
+Disallow: /imgs

templates/blog-header.php

@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
 		<nav>
 			<a href="/" >Home</a>
 			<a href="/blog/" >Blog</a>
-			<a href="/poetry.html" >Poetry</a>
+			<a href="/poetry/" >Poetry</a>
 			<a href="https://code.ortegas.org/nortega/" >Code</a>
 			<a href="https://odysee.com/@nortega:7?r=FnizT7ACmJrTdw6HQJxAVGgFcHGN6oFy&sunset=lbrytv" >Videos</a>
-			<a href="/contact.html" >Contact</a>
+			<a href="/contact" >Contact</a>
 		</nav>
 		<main>
 			<h1 class="page-title" ><?= $title ?> - <?= $created ?></h1>

templates/header.php

@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
 		<nav>
 			<a href="/" >Home</a>
 			<a href="/blog/" >Blog</a>
-			<a href="/poetry.html" >Poetry</a>
+			<a href="/poetry/" >Poetry</a>
 			<a href="https://code.ortegas.org/nortega/" >Code</a>
 			<a href="https://odysee.com/@nortega:7?r=FnizT7ACmJrTdw6HQJxAVGgFcHGN6oFy&sunset=lbrytv" >Videos</a>
-			<a href="/contact.html" >Contact</a>
+			<a href="/contact" >Contact</a>
 		</nav>
 		<main>
 			<h1><?= $title ?></h1>