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by lm28469 11mo ago
Yeah I mean that's kind of the point of representative democracy, you want us to go and vote for every single law? That would be a full time activity
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Meanwhile I can't get a hold of my landlord because they removed both their support email and online formular in favor of an AI chatbot, which means I can't get them to repair my heaters and have been without heating since thursda
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by lm28469 11mo ago
That's not really how it worked out so far, the productivity is simply pocketed by the elite and never translates to shorter work week, salary increase or earlier retirement https://files.epi.org/charts/img/23
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Well the problem is that even at $200 a month they're bleeding MONEY. FYI for every well intentioned skilled engineer using llms you have 100 lazy code monkeys shipping mountains of tech debt faster than ever before, 1000 people genera
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by lm28469 11mo ago
I'm not surprised at all. The HN crowd think LLMs are mostly used for engineering because they live in a multi layer bubble. Real people in the real world do all kind of shit with LLMs which aren't productivity or even work relate
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Stuff like that: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1796887086647431277 https://www.dw.com/en/greece-in-the-port-of-piraeus-china-is... https://www.arabnews.com/node/1819
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Any time someone mention "fascism" or "communism" you can be sure people instantly lose 50 IQ point and come up with the most convoluted definitions of these terms The US army have their own government owned supermarkets
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by lm28469 11mo ago
So is he communist or islamist in the end ? I keep hearing both but they're mutually exclusive
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by lm28469 11mo ago
It depends who's in charge of the nation though, you can have people planning for the long term well being of their population, or people planning for the next election cycle and making sure they amass as much power and money in the me
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by lm28469 11mo ago
On the contrary, people should talk about these parasites more so we can get rid of them, they thrive in the shadows
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by lm28469 11mo ago
One side is metastasising in the US government right now, the other has been long dead. "it's the same because they're both bad" ok...
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Last week I gave antigravity a try, with the latest models and all, it generated subpar code that did the job very quickly for sure, but no one would have ever accepted this code in a PR, it took me 10x more time to clean it up than to have
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by lm28469 11mo ago
There was value in leaded gas and asbestos insulation too, nobody denies that. You're blind to all the negative side effects, AI generated slop ads, engagement traps, political propaganda, scams, &c. The amount of pollution is incr
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Homoconsomator brain be like ^
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by lm28469 11mo ago
It might be shocking to you but some people believe there is more to life than producing and consuming "content" faster and faster. Most of it is used to fool people for engagement, scam, politics or propaganda, it definitely is a
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Yes, because they're manufacturing all the shit we consume, that's my point.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Burning clean dry wood in a modern well maintained wood stove is surprisingly efficient and relatively clean (+ renewable) Of course if you burn trash none of that matters, but it's already illegal in pretty much any advanced societies
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by lm28469 11mo ago
When everyone on this planet want to live like the average European or American heat pumps and EVs won't save you from pollution
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by lm28469 11mo ago
The problem is that going for ads basically is an admission that AGI is nowhere close to what they pretend. People are valuating it for "skynet is around the corner" not "we're going to kill our product by polluting our
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by lm28469 11mo ago
FOMO must play a massive role in it.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> Unfettered capitalism is great under certain conditions. Amazing things get invented & rolled out to the world. That's a really naive take, for you to enjoy this "ideal capitalism" there are hundred thousands of peop
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Have you heard about palantir ? Flock? Prism? One day you're chasing terrorism, the next you're chasing ecologists, political opponents, unions, minorities, &c.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Dork in chief always delivers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_colonization_progr... > "We bring you Mars", a rendering of a terraformed Mars at SpaceX Headquarters
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Wouldn't that entirely kill the AGI delulu narrative (for people who still believe in it)
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by lm28469 11mo ago
The US will have government owned nuclear powered AI data centers before lead free running water
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by lm28469 11mo ago
It gets even better when you think about all the damage we've done in ~200 years of industrial revolution. We can't keep our perfect home in working order after so little time but they believe we'll transform dead rocks with
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Anecdotes are cool but we came up with a neat little thing known as statistics. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-job-postings-fall-across... > Among the 27 countries analysed, European nations saw the steepest fa
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> A tool is a tool. These AI critics sound to me like people who have hit their finger with a hammer, and now advocate against using them altogether. Speaking of wonky analogies, have you considered that other people have access to these
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> Would you prefer we heat our homes by burning wood, carry water from the nearby spring, and ride horses to visit relatives? I'm more surprised that seemingly educated people have such simplistic views as "technology = progres
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Definitely true in western Europe, and finding a job is extremely hard for the vast majority of non expert devs. Of course if you're in south eastern europe or in south asia where all the jobs are being offshored you're having the

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