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by danaris 9mo ago
Where do you think they should go, then? Are you willing to see the city pay to house them? Because otherwise, you're basically saying "I don't think the fact that they're homeless is a problem; I think the fact that I h
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by danaris 9mo ago
> Every dollar that government takes is reducing the wealth of all people and concentrating it in the hands of a few. I mean...in the very short term, yes. But governments then spend that money , and one of the big things governments sp
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by danaris 9mo ago
No, what we need is not "democracy" as in "we get what every idiot thinks is good off the top of their head". What we need is a representative democracy, where our representatives genuinely care about getting the best ou
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by danaris 9mo ago
What you don't seem to see is that the problem is not the fact that the shop owner let the homeless people stay there. The problem is the fact that those people were homeless to begin with. So many people like you seem to just accept
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by danaris 9mo ago
I guarantee you that "let's do" was "let's look at the pollution, including radioactive pollution, from". Because coal mining releases more radiation into the world than nuclear power. ...But yes; with the effi
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by danaris 9mo ago
And I don't think an individual should ever have a billion dollars. I would prefer that people not starve in the streets. I would also, without any hesitation, point out that mine is a very practical and humanistic concern, while yours
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by danaris 9mo ago
> The top quintile of income earners in the US pay 34% of all taxes. The next quintile 26% . And what percentages of all income & wealth do those quintiles have...?
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by danaris 9mo ago
> you have to convince them it's good for people working in ad tech to oppose ICE. Yes—and one of the tools we have for that is shunning . If enough of us who are appalled and disgusted by the state of things, and the people who wi
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by danaris 9mo ago
Yeah? And do you think this government is likely to do that?
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by danaris 9mo ago
And if the price that those people can afford is $0, because ClaudeGPTPilot MegaAGI took all their jobs? What then? There is a price below which no farmer is going to sell, regardless of whether they have another buyer. What you're say
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by danaris 9mo ago
Well...now you have! ^_^
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by danaris 9mo ago
The "problems that come up" will be people homeless and starving. I'm 100% with stego-tech that I think we should address the major, glaring concerns that come with greater automation before that happens. Because I care abo
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by danaris 9mo ago
> The point is to slow it down so we have time to adapt . ...and also to try to pry it loose from the fingers of the capitalists, so we have a hope of being able to share in the prosperity it brings.
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by danaris 9mo ago
First, I want to be clear that in the sense you are talking about, I fully agree with you. But "work", in the sense that AI can, in theory, replace humans in, is about more than just jobs. It's about many of the things that
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by danaris 9mo ago
But if you want to make it possible for the Feds to break into a terrorist's secure phone, you have to make it impossible for anyone to have a secure phone . That is arbitrary interference with all our privacy.
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by danaris 9mo ago
This seems, to me, to be a fairly dysfunctional way of operating, at least as a general rule. It's far, far too easy for an organization that operates this way to abuse it: oh, you want to be promoted to Assistant Director? Here are al
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by danaris 9mo ago
"After a point", yes. But that point—at least in terms of its dollar value—keeps rising, and these days it's out of reach of far too many non-managers.
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by danaris 9mo ago
Well, and that's a major part of the problem: Even if you continue doing better and better work in your current job, you will never get paid more for it. If you want more pay, you have to seek a promotion, and the only jobs that get
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by danaris 9mo ago
It's not for "signaling," and it's not for "high prestige" jobs. It's for jobs , period. Because a) as the world grows more complex, more and more jobs genuinely require higher education, and at the same
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by danaris 9mo ago
If you're using the models to assist with coding—y'know, what this thread is about?—then they'll need to know about the language being used. If you're using them for particular frameworks or libraries in that language, t
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by danaris 9mo ago
Comparing two data points gets you a line. If you want to prove that there are not diminishing returns, you need to add at least one more data point in there. You're really not showing any evidence that you even understand how this k
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by danaris 9mo ago
You, uh, wanna actually back that accusation up with some data there, chief?
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by danaris 9mo ago
The first half of your post, I broadly agree with. The last part...I'm not sure. The idea that we will be able to compute-scale our way out of practically anything is so much taken for granted these days that many people seem to have
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by danaris 9mo ago
Then you're missing my point. Yes, you, a hobbyist, can make that work, and keep being useful for the foreseeable future. I don't doubt that. But either a majority or large plurality of programmers work in some kind of large ins
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by danaris 9mo ago
OK? Prove it. Show me actual studies that clearly demonstrate that not only does using an LLM code assistant help make code faster in the short term, it doesn't waste all that extra benefit by being that much harder to maintain in th
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by danaris 9mo ago
I think that even if inference is "not really that expensive", it's not free . I think that Microsoft will not be willing to operate Copilot for free in perpetuity. I think that there has not yet been any meaningful large-sc
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by danaris 9mo ago
> It is so clear that AI tools will be (and are already) a big part of future jobs for CS majors now, both in industry and academia. No, it's not. Nothing around AI past the next few months to a year is clear right now. It's
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by danaris 9mo ago
Trump ran on an explicit promise to bring down grocery prices on day 1. Grocery prices have continued to climb. Absolutely nothing he has done could remotely be said to be aimed at bringing them down. He has also instituted massive attack
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by danaris 9mo ago
Biden was by far the most effective and most progressive Democratic president of the post-WWII era. What "hammered home" the disillusionment was not Biden's actions *, but rather the media narrative built around him, particu
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by danaris 9mo ago
Yeah; it gets steps 1-3 right, 4-6 obviously wrong, and then 7-9 subtly wrong such that a student, who needs it step by step while learning, can't tell.

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