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It isn’t every day that Big Tech execs get to hear the truth of everyperson sentiment.
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Elaborate?
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Don’t give shit away for free if you expect something in return, even something altruistic like for the recipients to be nice to the gift and keep it in good shape. I think it makes more sense for the commons to be built on mutuality and so
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Nack. Move all your private thoughts to pen and paper and direct conversations.
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To guess that people in countries with lower suicide are more satisfied is one possibility.
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For example version control. That’s the kind of the thing that I read about and want to program myself. Things that have nothing to do with end-user software.
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I have lately thought about how the only tech I am interested in now is to assist programming. Programming for programming. Eternal yak shaving. And a big part of that is that end-user digital technology is a dystopia. No, not dystopic, not
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We are by all concievable measures living in the best timeline and under the best economic system. Just look at the graphs. Just consider what an American symbol the graduation cap is. We don’t really know why, but I think a likely reason i
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> Yes, that is true. However, each time this happens, those people are eventually labelled as getting in the way of progress, luddites, etc, and it is easy for those that benefit (cheap food, cheap products) to simply go on with their &q
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I don’t have a problem with people being very negative and cynical. I have a problem with people being very negative and cynical and also defeatist. The things that I alluded to were examples of fighting back. Not just dreading the hypothet
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I think you are wrong. Luddites don’t seem to exist any more, at least not on this board. Luddites had the courage to smash machines. People on this board might have complaints about LLM but then they will say well what can I do, protesting
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Chomsky one time was talking about, gosh, his eyes are too old to be reading this microformat thing with a magnifier at the library in order to research archived newspapers like The (New York) Times . (This was sometime in the 90’s.)
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The system isn’t static. Anti-authority is not countered by authority, or the same kind of authority. It’s countered by co-opting anti-authority.
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What do they say about those who see through ideology.
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There’s over a century of history of workers “caring” and fighting back.
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Good for them that the poors on this board are too smart/polite/civilized to become NeoLuddites and sabotage their efforts.
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I feel like this subthread is full of passive acceptance of defeat. How many years did it take for HN to go from “worker unions bad because I make a lot of money” to “Of course there is a capitalist/worker war going on and in fact the
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Pure wage workers should consider dropping the attitude about how tech progress will just make their inferiors in the same line of work be out of a job ( hrmph good riddance etc.). Because this pseudo-progress could creep up on them as wel
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The most future-proof “career” right now is having money. At least multiple million dollars. That’s a skill that is very much in demand.
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> I hope that this isn’t true. It would be really unfortunate for software engineers. But it would be even more unfortunate if it were true and we refused to acknowledge it. More AI Soothsaying. Not so hard on the Inevitabilism this time
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There are always people who will disagree, no matter how amazing something is, and they naturally respond with concerns close to the locus of the LLMification. It would be absurd to respond to “AI autocomplete is great now” with “but you st
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This is marketing.
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Many people here like the bougie narrative that we’re all equally to blame, for obvious reasons. A vote is a vote is a vote.
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That’s what I thought.
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Sucks to Germany.
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At the end of the day it’s bullets fired from rifles, mortars, artillery shells, cruise ship missiles, etc. that are killing people in war. If the executive branch of the government is commanding the military, and generals are command
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> conspiracy theory What is the name for the theory that the most fantastically wealthy do not rule society? No kind adjectives come to mind.
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Then the misanthropes of HN will have their way. And can gloat in their graves.
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Junior programmers are the idiot foil of all anecdotes on HN in the last three years. Only juniors do that; everything went fine until the junior...; anyway, the junior sent me a eight thousand diff of obvious slop; so now I got my first gr
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> When I had learned that, my first instinct was to be happy for him, proud, impressed, etc (genuinely). My second was to want the same for myself. Badly. > [...] Think back (addressing you, the reader, now) to the time when you were

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