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by slashdev 3y ago
Why do people still use emacs and vim in this age of VS code and intellij? I’ve heard plenty of arguments, but they kind of suck to be honest. They’re more like rationalizations for why they stick to what they know. I just don’t get it. Why
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t agree with nearly anything you said here. I think we’re looking at path one for the most part, augmentation, not replacement. It doesn’t matter what business believes one whit. It matters entirely what the reality supports. Otherwis
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by slashdev 3y ago
We’re talking different risks now though. Not about retirees being less likely to share in the profits from AI based economic growth.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s not coming for me because it can’t think. If anything it makes the senior engineer more valuable, not less so. Writing actual code is the minority part of my day usually. Using Amdahl’s law, that bounds the maximum speed up to under 2x
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by slashdev 3y ago
People in retirement live off investments, not wages. They’re exactly the class most likely to benefit. Unless you don’t have retirement savings. But your not likely to be worse off, your pension doesn’t get automated away.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t see it happening (software engineer.) I’ve been using AI through copilot and ChatGPT for a year now. It’s great, it’s helpful, it’s worth the money. It’s not replacing me. It doesn’t let a junior dev do my job. It doesn’t make me so
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by slashdev 3y ago
Replace the middle manger with AI. I bet it would be an improvement.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t share your disdain for the average person, and I don’t see ChatGPT replacing people on a huge scale. it’s a helpful productivity tool, but the I don’t see that it will replace huge amounts of jobs. I worry more about autonomous driv
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by slashdev 3y ago
Every disruptive technology creates and destroys jobs. This is business as usual since the start of the Industrial Revolution and beyond. No need to panic, like the Luddites, yet. Real AGI is the time to panic, because that forms an event h
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by slashdev 3y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I believe people can change. Especially if given the opportunity. Even if, often, they don’t. You’re essentially saying once a criminal, always a criminal. That’s objectively false, even if it might be a statistically sound bet (I don’t kno
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by slashdev 3y ago
Likewise for Mio (which underlies Tokio) for Rust. The odds of that happening look better, but still seems far away.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Because if there’s no free will, the person you’re punishing merely behaved according to the state in their brain and couldn’t have acted differently in the moment. Punishment is still useful as a deterrent, but there’s no “they deserved it
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by slashdev 3y ago
Combine that with AI to emulate their voice, and AI renderings to use photos of their face to render a 3d model that moves it's lips and face realistically as it talks (both of which already exist). Yeah, you could with today's te
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by slashdev 3y ago
Amazing, you get lawyers involved and they proceed to immediately alienate a large number of people in the very community the foundation is meant to nurture. It's a pretty good example of an own-goal by the rust foundation. Fire the id
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by slashdev 3y ago
Governments that think they can innovate through consortiums. That's either ignorance or pork barrel politics. Either way it's a sad waste of tax payer money.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> Anyway, I don't think it's bad to just admit that people intelligence is declining. I think that couldn’t be more serious or important. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think it's generally useful AI, but not AGI as people discuss the term. AGI would need to be sentient, self-aware. It would need to be alive and intelligent by any definitions of the term. ChatGPT is generally useful, but still very
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by slashdev 3y ago
I guess the AGI is the singularity which causes the event horizon beyond which we can't see. But now we really are getting pedantic ;)
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by slashdev 3y ago
Ok, I understand your point now, and I agree with it for the most part. AGI really is a singularity. We can't see past it, and nobody knows what a society with AGI would look like, or even if there is room for humans in it. I think not
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by slashdev 4y ago
You are being pedantic. You also came by with a three word troll comment. Why don't you make your argument properly and then I'll spend the effort to address it.
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by slashdev 4y ago
There's a important lesson about using nuclear power as an energy source in there. Contrast that with Germany which is shuttering their nuclear power plants in favor of renewables.
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by slashdev 4y ago
Don't be pedantic. From Oxford dictionary: "advance or development toward a better, more complete, or more modern condition"
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by slashdev 4y ago
Ah you mean why is it on HN, not why was the study performed. That's fair. HN is wider than just technical things of course, and often includes major breaking news as well as some things of general interest. Given how common alcohol co
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by slashdev 4y ago
> People are not reading the articles in full (and therefore being presented with ads, or a subscription paywall), but they are engaging on the social media platform I feel like you just described Hacker News.
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by slashdev 4y ago
I don’t buy that argument. The extremest people on the left are doing ridiculous things as well. Like turning a blind eye to shoplifting or illegal immigration. Not on the same scale as overthrowing the government, I concede. If enough of y
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by slashdev 4y ago
That’s a very biased take on things, evidenced by dismissing the other side as idiots. A more balanced take might be, why does the US end up with such a high proportion of corrupt idiots on both sides of the political spectrum in Congress a
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by slashdev 4y ago
I’ve often wondered about it too. Is it possible with sufficiently good AI and enough data? I think a major shortcoming is you still need the creativity of people inventing new products and services and bringing those to market. Without cap
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by slashdev 4y ago
There are things where if you buy the cheap option it can cost you more over the long run. An obvious example is a cheap product that breaks down. Tools you use for your work are another category like that. Your desk, chair, computer, devel
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by slashdev 4y ago
With a nickname like Dr Doom, what else would you expect? The guy seems like he would be fun at parties.

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