johnsmith1840

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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
A very large percentage of systems you use every day being built with AI? Coding has changed butbuissness has not.
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
I dunno dude, it's getting scary fast. You tried a fable/5.6sol maximum effort on a chunky task yet? Maybe in a few years being a good coder will be like being a good taxi driver with self driving. You know the best spots and the
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Except I actively despise that commit message anytime I see it.
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Reasonable take then. You think oil, ai, space aren't the deciding factors of the next 50 years? An interesting argument against is maybe the big one is who can produce the most cheap robots and drones (China). It's unsure if that
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Evil big AI not considering people who don't know yet if they care about these books. How dare they!
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Exactly as they were before then? Sitting in a book sellers private collection. But since we hate AI that is now bad.
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Outdated... Let me know when planes fly on solar, shipping containers on wind and your chair isn't made of plastic. Drones have made terrorism hard to stop in iran. But it's not over let's see where it goes. The positives are
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
On basically all metrics the US is most prosperous country on earth. Our middle class turned into upper class. It's a pretty bad argument when the poorest part of the country are richer than basically anywhere else in the world. The on
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Like ever actual rare book unscanned in private collection.
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
So ai companies can just setup an academic method for researches to see the scans? Only reason they're doing this is because people complaining about copyright
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
They weren't public?
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Nothing? What's the difference of the vast rare books in private collections never scanned or public? Ever been to the rare book conference? None of those are public.
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
They are digitally scanning them? What knowledge is being lost here?
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
I mean aren't thry literally just digitally scanning books that basically nobody else has? I can morn paper but it's not like the contents are being lost. Rumors of rare books being destroyed would be the bad part of this but if &
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
As we literally just invented cheap space travel and AI? Massive energy stores, massive military, massive datacenters. I would not want to bet against that
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Well there's the root of the disagreement. I view it as the opposite, that the US is setting itself up to be the dominant world power for the next 100 years. Energy, space and AI if US doesn't fumble those we're looking at a
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
You saying america isn't doing well?
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Maybe
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Most of the developed world aint doin so hot
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
US public transit is a finacial disaster far beyond any other country. Road maintenance is normally cheaper/faster with private. Healthcare is a can of worms but you could be right. The real problem with public health is what happens w
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Nah it only returned after my comment here
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Again, assuming the government can outcompete on price vs private industry. It's a real point but I don't know an example of that happening elsewhere. The US government outcompeting private industry is exactly why communism doesn&
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Yes that I'd like to hear. It's possible it would be cheaper over time if we assume tax filling is artificially held at a higher price by companies but competition says that shouldn't be true. But also, the "bridge"
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Go back to reddit if you don't want to chat
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
What do they do cheaper?
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Not saying private do everything but if they already are and it's cheaper why screw with it? Charging a consumer or taxing them, what's the difference
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
I mean it's right there in the price? Not doing rocket science analysis here. I do wonder on the point of making it complicated on purpose though. Like is there actual evidence of that? Government naturally makes all sorts of stuff ove
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Kinda a hard argument to say the government can do something cheaper than private industry.
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Ok but why even make it? 40$ per taxpayer filing vs the government doing it with our taxes. I doubt it's going to beat private industry's price. It's not a bad faith argument though. If it cost the gov 40$ or it cost a tax pa
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by johnsmith1840 2mo ago
Yeah that was my point and question. It was more expensive but I was wondering if it was just a scale problem. Kinda weird someone can delete comments like that on here.

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