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by palmotea 2mo ago
> The fact that you’re nervous means you will be the first to be replaced! Is that sarcasm? Cause it's not too different from something I'd say sarcastically (e.g. it's very 10X AI engineer, very overconfident while missin
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> I don't think intellectual work will drop off overnight. There will be a long period, perhaps decade or two, where many jobs will just gradually disappear, where salaries will be suppressed, and humans will just become AI-babysitt
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> This is the worst LLMs will ever be. Not outsourcing critical thinking to LLM will be seen as a liability in the not so distant future. Just a year or two ago almost no one even took LLM seriously for coding. Now the status quo has mov
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> I have yet to see a these models factor in widespread death, looting, rioting, hunger, etc that will happen long before we hit 100% unemploymenet The industry has been using the wrong metrics. Progress towards AGI should be measured in
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Also take a look at "Directors, Religious Activities and Education." It's one of the roles that ends up at 100% unemployment: https://whenwillaitakemyjob.ai/projections/directors-religio... Somehow they&
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> You're seeing it exclusively from the perspective of an oppressive government, not the people. No, I'm seeing it from the perspective of the people, who have a legitimate interest in the suppression of organized crime. And I
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by palmotea 2mo ago
>> come up with an effective alternative > I already did, and noted it in my parent comment if you actually read it. The alternative is crypto. No you didn't, you totally misunderstood what I meant. I was not talking about an
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by palmotea 2mo ago
FYI, your comment showed up as [dead] like you were banned until I vouched for it, but I don't see any reason for that. Just thought I'd let you know in case you want to follow up.
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> no programming is verifiable, and the major LLM companies are focused on it. its the first domino to fall by probably 5+ years Which is kinda proof they're populated by sociopaths with extremely little empathy. The people who are
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Today, a bad engineer can churn out ten thousand lines of garbage that actually compiles and runs, before my first cup of coffee. If not on a tight leash, they'll sink the whole codebase or inundate every senior person with garbag
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> If your company has sketchy process and minimal checks on the software quality, of course it naturally follows that they hire bad engineers as well. fortunately, that also opens up an opportunity to be a emergency leader with an eye to
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Yeah. LLMs (and the associated hype) are changing my job for the worse. While I agree it's useful sometimes, it's lead to a huge amount of pressure to eliminate the fun parts of my job (design and coding) and replace it with more
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> I don't think you are ready for constructive non-zealous open-minded discussion which objectively looks at whole thing without any previous biases or and wider understanding. So it is pointless to continue this discussion as you a
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> So it clearly is double-standard. Excusing it with "cultural significance" is clear example of something being double standard. And it is one of the worst reasons to have. Genital mutilation of children of both genders is als
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Just pointing out the double standards and the main funding source being due to illegality. And we all known how many people die due to ethanol each year. But because it is drug of the choice by too many totalitarian fascists it won&#x
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Obvious solution is to make soft drugs like fentanyl fully legal. Just apply sufficient purity to standards as regulation like with any other drug. Issue solved instantly. It is not like other deathly drugs aren't already legal. [emp
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Money laundering is an absurd concept. People should be free to transfer money to whoever they like, without permission. They got Al Capone for tax evasion, not any of the other obviously illegal stuff he was doing. I don't know t
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by palmotea 2mo ago
They abandoned central planning, not state control of the economy. Unfortunately, their priority is not worker welfare, but more like national greatness. And they're performing way better than "capitalist" economies, which al
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> You've really lost the plot. I think you did. > There aren't 10,000 workers. There are at most a few dozen "individual-contributor-level workers". You're still concentrating all of that onto a really small n
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> If they do they are really not good at what they are doing and I wouldn’t blame any startup big or small to destroy it, especially after preserving it digitally. 1. That's fucking bizarre logic. "It's ok to do bad thing
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Or just don’t buy shitty mass produced chain products? You don't have a choice most of the time. You get to pick from the options the manufactures provide. And it's not like the average consumer has infinite time to sort thro
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> I would look to the past, but only as far back as free market capitalism, to replace the crony capitalism that we have right now in the US. Free market capitalism won't save us from a future were automation reaches a point that it
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Yes, because communism has always worked out so well in the past. Yeah, won't anyone think of the poor oligarchs, openly fantasizing about creating a permanent underclass? And the only thing that didn't work out well in the p
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by palmotea 2mo ago
More regulation. Specifically requiring worker-owned means of production: re-organize the AI model companies as mutuals and mandate (by law) that their only customers can be individual-contributor-level workers or worker unions. Ditto with
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> Shrinkflation is all over. Burger buns at fast food places were more dense 20 years ago. The small burgers had 1/8th pound patties instead of the current 1/10th pound. It's hard to find a product that hasn't gotten
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by palmotea 2mo ago
If the orders are that obvious, someone should create some print-on-demand slop and fill the order with it.
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by palmotea 2mo ago
> I have heard allegations that they might be destroying non replaceable books, but only as a hypothetical. > Replacibility is the standard tbat matters in this which I mentioned in my post. I haven't heard of a specific instance
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Also what's worthless to you is very much not worthless to others. A pretty obvious example is genealogical archival records. My family only cares about a few dozen pages out of millions for each US census, but every family cares abo
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Don't worry, I'm sure this was all an AI agent's fault, so no one to blame and all they need to do is update their code review prompts to not make mistakes.
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by palmotea 2mo ago
Who needs journalism, when I can have Claude create a newspaper for me from tweets?

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