generic92034

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by generic92034 5mo ago
Be careful what you are wishing for. All the leisure time you would want while having no job or money could be the future we are heading for.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
*the whole industry in countries without strong worker rights
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by generic92034 5mo ago
Maybe for ebook readers, but not for books.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
If there is mass starvation that kind of lethargy can quickly change.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
At least you would need a sort of creative continental gerrymandering. ;)
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by generic92034 5mo ago
You could try it with some development support work, doing customer tickets. At times there is complexity but you have real people asking for help and usually a limited scope. It is a (nowadays rather small) part of my job and it often give
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by generic92034 5mo ago
> Nobody's exactly like Banks though. Indeed. He died way too early. R.I.P.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
They are not necessarily lacking imagination, they are just not providing answers to their own question. Almost everyone has read some dystopian SciFi.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
Cannot happen, these days. The US taxpayer will be glad to bail them all out (again).
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by generic92034 5mo ago
You forget the times with an overproduction of electrical energy in Germany. Then they sell it for a negative price to the neighbor countries. Later, when they need more energy they buy it back at a premium. It is good business for neighbor
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by generic92034 5mo ago
Yes, but you (as a human) can still understand the cathedral (the building). This is not guaranteed for advanced AI work in mathematics in the future. If so, are we/they are really still adding to human knowledge, at this stage?
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by generic92034 5mo ago
I wonder if AI is one means to overcome the natural limits of human knowledge aggregation [0]. On the other hand, in the very long run, what does it mean if a talented human being does not have enough years of life to fully analyze and unde
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by generic92034 5mo ago
If there is such a ceiling (clearly, I doubt it, seeing many of the main German industry leaders going down or offshore, so there is plenty space to grow), it is not of the EU's doing. It it about money and the advantages large incumbe
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by generic92034 5mo ago
EU trap? How far do you think Poland would have come economically without access to the EU common market and without EU subsidies?
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by generic92034 5mo ago
> Chrome would end up being spun off from Google. You mean, with reasonable administrations, caring for antitrust laws.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
Well, he did a good job of freeing Hungary from Orban. So, cut him some slack. /s
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Nvidia executive: AI is more expensive than paying human workers(fortune.com)
5 points by generic92034 5mo ago|3 comments
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by generic92034 5mo ago
When will the C levels of the "allin on AI" companies realize that? Or is the Nvidia exec mistaken?
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by generic92034 5mo ago
That is not how responsibility works anywhere. If you are stealing a gun and murder someone with that gun, you are still responsible, even if it is not your gun.
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by generic92034 5mo ago
> The best way to describe AI agents I've heard: treat them as hostages that will do anything to appease their captor. A scary image, if we consider agents to develop anything like a conscience at some point in time. Of course, with
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by generic92034 5mo ago
It is worse. The code changes are mostly random, only surviving the tests of fitness nature is applying (on various levels though; immediately catastrophic changes on level of cell biology are sorted out). And at least the high-level tests
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by generic92034 6mo ago
But what about my impression that it is getting worse? When I (as a developer) was trying to help customers with the product 20 years ago, about 50% (my guesstimate) of the people were actually reading what I wrote, at least to a good degre
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by generic92034 6mo ago
> This is why it's important to write things down in details and as-unambiguous-as-you-can forms. While that might be a prerequisite for a deep shared understanding, I have made the experience in the last few years that the number o
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by generic92034 6mo ago
I would not be so pessimistic. Look what the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria have done for our atmosphere.
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by generic92034 6mo ago
But certainly indirectly with cash. All the advertised products are more expensive than they could be, due to the costs of advertising. This comes out of everyone's pocket.
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by generic92034 6mo ago
14-19 years might be a respectable lifetime for a handheld electronic device, but in most cases (good care assumed) it is not a respectable lifetime for a book.
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by generic92034 6mo ago
Most of their products are so large that you can easily find parts with very bad and parts with excellent code. I am not sure a whole ERP product could work with all very bad code, though.
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by generic92034 6mo ago
Spanked? Hardly ever are there fines A) actually being paid in the end and B) high enough to be of any concern to the concern.
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by generic92034 6mo ago
And this was all known for decades. Now everyone pays the price for the US leadership surrounding themselves with spineless yes-men.
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by generic92034 6mo ago
> We could learn from our allies in Ukraine. Give them capital and manufacturing bases in America. But Putin would not like that! /s

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