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by kypro 1y ago
Yeah, for me 2020-2021 was when I woke up to the reality that people wouldn't be coding for too much longer. Prior to that I probably wouldn't have believed that was likely for at least a few decades. When ChatGPT was realised it
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Our ability to apply empathy selectively is the root cause of most of the evil in the world. I myself struggle to understand why some things when they happen to some people move me so deeply, but when similar things happen to others I feel
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Transparency might cost a government in a direct sense, but the liberal argument would be that a transparent government is a more democratic and accountable government therefore that cost should ultimately result in better governance which
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> The UK has a lower tax regime than most equivalent nations. If we wanted a better NHS we could just collect similar tax rates to that of Germany or other western nations. This is largely untrue today since the Conservatives have signif
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In my opinion some of this is simply due to how congested built up areas are today. It's genuinely hard to get up to 30 in a city or any populated area in the UK today, and most cities in the UK now have 20mph speed limits when there&#
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It's probably worth noting you can be charged with a driving offence if you're driving 60mph down a country road even if it's technically national speed limit. Just because legally you can drive at 60 doesn't mean you&#x
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In the UK we take this a step further – if you're by an abortion clinic and the police believe you could be praying in your head for those getting an abortion they can charge you. There are also examples where the people have been char
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Not really. Unlike the president the EU commission are unelected and the commission is the only branch of government which can propose laws, however they can't force anything through in the same way the US president can with an executi
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Why is demand needed in a post-AGI world? Free market economics depends on the idea that resources are scarce. If you don't have scarce resources you don't have trade because everything you want you either have or can have in abun
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It's annoying because when I ask the LLM for help it's normally because I'm not absolutely right and doing something wrong.
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> I haven't heard yet a company that actually has produced valuable product because of it. Usually the flow has been, that some Western country has created a succesful product, and then later the workforce has been changed. And almo
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I'm not talking about "replacing" workers. I'm talking about hiring the most qualified which in a global talent pool will almost always be someone from abroad. There's no reason for a company to hire a relatively un
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I have a controversial take that the only reason knowledge jobs have been well paid and fairly safe in the West was because for a while they've been difficult to outsource, not because the skills themselves are particularly rare or har
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These days normally what corporates do is bring in people from abroad who have the skills. The idea that companies would seek to train up domestic workers if there is a skill shortage is outdated today – even if theoretically this might be
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This is good though right? There was decline in manufacturing jobs in the West over the last several decades because we could automate and outsource to cut costs. We all agree that cheap iPhones and clothes are good... Right...? Now we get
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by kypro 1y ago
For what it's worth as a Brit I agree with you. When I talk to people in Britain about sugar-taxes, smoking bans, porn bans, hate-speech laws, etc, most people will explain that without these things people will say/do harmful thin
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I've always found it rather crazy that the power of backpropagation and artificial neural networks was doubted by AI researchers for so long. It's really only since the early 2010s that researchers started to take the field seriou
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by kypro 1y ago
Immigration is a similar debate where supply and demand goes out the window for political reasons. Here in the UK it's really hard to convince people that it's really hard to address our housing shortage through building alone whe
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by kypro 1y ago
To be honest thing I find most doing most is asking the LLM to keep thing to some set number of sentences/paragraphs. "In 4 sentences, how would you do x". "In 2 paragraphs summerise the pros and cons of y". Not rea
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by kypro 1y ago
You might have a point if it wasn't for the fact that infrastructure projects in the UK generally cost more than our European peers. The UK's inability to build is apparent everywhere – our extreme lack of house building, our lack
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by kypro 1y ago
> LLMs get endlessly confused: they assume the code they wrote actually works; when test fail, they are left guessing as to whether to fix the code or the tests; and when it gets frustrating, they just delete the whole lot and start over
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by kypro 1y ago
To be fair they did stop a guy on a skateboard the other day, fined him £300, and gave him 6 points on his non-existent license, https://x.com/JamesHarvey2503/status/1955215331959394764 People act like the UK is l
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You forgot to mention those people are holding placards in support of an illegal "terror" group whose objective is to protest the unnecessary human loss of life in Palestine by spray painting British military equipment. Obligatory
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by kypro 1y ago
> How come all the AI companies have not replaced engineers? First you augment, then replace. Anyone doing simple web design/development work is fairly easily replaceable at this point.
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I'm considering placing a sign on the wall saying to knock for eggs next time we want to get rid of some. I think that's a fair compromise. We get a lot of crime around here... The issue with an eggs honesty box is that it's
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We have chickens and I'd love to do an honesty box. Problem is we live in an English city and it's extremely low-trust like most English cities these days. It's not even that I worry someone would steal the eggs that concerns
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This is absolutely brilliant. What a wonderfully simple idea! > I'm hoping to build more features (iPhone contacts sync, easier birthdays importing) while also making video content that celebrates strangers' birthdays (such as,
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Oh for sure. I personally think this was the whole point of the bill. We've seen from online bans in recent years that it doesn't really matter if someone is still technically able to access a the banned content, at some point if
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I was thinking last night how many in some ways these age verification laws might actually have some upside for those of us who were fond of the early internet... Ultimately what these laws will end up doing is pushing internet traffic towa
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by kypro 1y ago
As a Brit, ultimately I think this is the only thing that's going to get through to the government and public.

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