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Yes, the AI chatbot will fill that role. It will answer questions that customers have and then it will feedback to the product team about the most common queries made by customers. Honestly, the Hacker News crowd have been such visionaries
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In the fact that AI is the only realistic path we have of providing every human being on the planet with the best health care and education.
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"read off a script and can't fix anything" has been a hallmark of customer service for the past 20 years. If anything, the shift to AI offers a path away from this and towards offering actually useful feedback. Would anyone w
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If you think that AI only benefits shareholders then you're the one with exceptional short term vision. Broadening access to AI will massively benefit all humans
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Exactly, almost everyone who reads Hacker News have built their careers on technological progress. Outrage now that it's coming after their jobs just rings hollow.
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You should, the Russian language will outlast any Russian Government
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This is censorship, not freedom of speech.
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The lack of clarity was deliberate. The aim was to obey Elizabeth Warren and kill the Crypto industry in the US.
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Almost all code is lucky to survive more than 30 months, but then again, so what? Is the code that most software developers write essential to the continuation of human civilisation? If we're being honest almost all of the code that&#x
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"inhumane" means something, not showing enough empathy doesn't mean you flip over to "inhumane". I swear it's the same people who think not using preferred pronouns is "literally genocide".
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God I wish I had enough privilege to consider using an unpreferred name as "inhumane"
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"deadnaming" someone is enough to get you banned from a number of social media sites, or to have stories about the "deadnamed" censored from news sites.
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I think my examples are very clearly related to free speech. They are all examples of excuses or intimidation used to prevent people from speaking.
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"the left" is perhaps too broad a group, but definitely amongst the progressive liberal left there are now examples of editing particular books to remove problematic terms. I'd consider this an even more insidious attack on f
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(At the risk of having my comment turn gray) The entire concept of "hate speech", the concept of "dead naming", anyone who thinks "words are violence" and therefore retaliation with physical violence is justifi
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There seems to be a generational divide on this topic. A lot of younger people seem to be fine with restrictions on free speech, often under the guise of various progressive causes
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on mobile, it was jarring to have the browser switch over to the pdf viewer after downloading a 2MB file over my phone connection (I don't have unlimited download)
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'PDF' in the title would be useful
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whose Danny?
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Much less weight should be given to someone "feeling uncomfortable" Rust the language is pretty good but the community around it has become really off-putting. The thick veneer of empathy and compassion quickly devolves into &quot
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Is iselmdead dead
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Sunk cost fallacy. A lot of people have spent a lot of their time developing this theory
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I think you've just described 95% of the companies that Hacker News readers work in.
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I'd strongly disagree with every sentence in your post. Britain does very well in lots of software engineering fields: games, fin-tech, web. We also have good Computer Science courses at universities. Research at these universities is
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The entire concept of "hate speech" should be thrown away.
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How effectively is that money spent? My cynical assumption would be that most of the money goes into employing political allies of the city of San Francisco.
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The reality is even sadder, it seems a lot of people on the left hate Elon because lots of other people on the left hate Elon. A kind of mimetic hatred
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Patronage networks are a powerful force in the US so it's unsurprising that they're giving money to their political allies.
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Exactly! And now the question becomes: why would he make such a lie before the House Financial Services Committee?
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No I don't think that's strange. A better analogy might be: would you think it strange that someone teaching a C programming class has never compiled a program?

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