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by trention 4y ago
Is there a single number in that story that contradicts what I have written?
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by trention 4y ago
Unfortunately for that line of reasoning, the hourly rate according to the BLS has also been pretty much constant in real $.
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by trention 4y ago
Brynjolfsson and McAfee made a simular argument a decade ago - we will use automation to replace rather than augment human labor, the result being a local optimum far from the global one (that's in terms of results, the dystopian disem
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by trention 4y ago
Not having agency is not the issue here. Usage of the model can (and will) be automated. Also, unlike you, the model scales. This is a qualitative difference in the output produced. You are left only with the superficial similarity of the i
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by trention 4y ago
>ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. This is incorrect. Translators employed: 2005 - 29240 2021 - 52170 Yearly salary: 2005 - 38300 2021 - 52170 Source - BLS ( https:/&#x2F
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by trention 4y ago
>post-scarcity for all kinds of intellectual work Unfortunately, all intellectuals also need to eat, bathe and clothe - areas where no "post-scarcity" is on the horizon (with climate change, both food and water may become less
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by trention 4y ago
On the basis that the "machine" is not a human and there is nothing that necessitates allowing neural networks to do all the things humans are permitted to do.
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>the general scientific consensus I would advise you to read up on the history of the advice ADA has been giving throughout the years (spoiler alert: they were wrong about fats and complex carbohydrates) before putting your money in that
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>how did you arrive to conclusion that eating chicken is better than eating lentils, beans, etc I haven't made such a claim (here "better" would be solely in terms of emissions). What was implied was that the delta of the
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>Anyone who cares about the environment including ecosystem breakdown and climate change will go meatless one way or another. I "care about the environment" and I will not "go meatless". I have stopped eating beef ent
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>So what? This is exactly the type of reaction I expect from modern leftists when they are proven factually wrong and logically inconsistent. Thanks for being an epitome. >You're also skipping over the "systematically persec
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>Homophobes aren't a protected class because they aren't systematically persecuted for something outside their control. You cannot assert that if you cannot demonstrate that homophobia is 0% genetic (I am using "genetic&qu
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by trention 4y ago
One thing I've noticed in all the debates around freedom of speech in the last decade is that literally nobody favors actual free speech. When freedom of speech touches some of the things you consider "sacred" or when it can
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by trention 4y ago
This is a truism that every senior engineer understands. There is no way to get below 10% coding unless you move into people management/product. At this point, you are no longer a SWE (except by title, maybe).
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by trention 4y ago
Well, you will lose but I basically don't believe your claim is anything more than hyperbolic bullshit as no one who is working as a SWE is actually spending only 1% of their time programming as per your initial comment.
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by trention 4y ago
>engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have" This is not a definition of engineering anyone sane holds. It's so broad it can be used to define a floor cleaner as an engineer (or, if you want high
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by trention 4y ago
Really? How much money are you willing to put on the claim "LLMs are going to produce >80% of newly written production code in 5 years"? If it's less than your yearly salary, then even you don't believe your own asser
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by trention 4y ago
It's basically a way in which already delusional people are further deluding themselves that writing a part of a sentence while interacting with a black box is engineering.
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It knows what combinations of pixels correspond to the metadata having "giraffe" in it. Nothing more.
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by trention 4y ago
The sad part is you don't even realize how unhinged in a quasi david koresh style you sound. The observation that kurzwelians have substituted AI (as a deux ex machina) for god is still spot on, maybe more than ever. Singulatarians rea
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by trention 4y ago
Presumably, if the ethics in question includes not leaving entire classes of skilled workers worldwide to hang like the States left its autoworkers hanging after the 70s - yes.
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Forget Disruption. Tech Needs to Fetishize Stability(wired.com)
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by trention 4y ago
It's absolutely logically consistent to allow humans to do X while forbidding AI to do X.
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by trention 4y ago
So, in essence you want a language that will tell the AI what to do? A programming language, if I may say so? It's almost if that natural language thing is highly ambiguous which is why we needed to create a new grammar to give precise
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by trention 4y ago
>"excels other large language models" It's also good that its announcement excels at having a grammatically correct subtitle.
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by trention 4y ago
This reads like a religious pamphlet and not an actual argument.
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The fact that you can imagine something will happen doesn't mean it will happen. Who says the AI will "know the intention of all the code, all the data models, know how users use the application intimately"? Are you aware tha
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by trention 4y ago
>will become as common as "photographers" There were still ~60% as many employed photographers in 2021 than in 2000 with higher real wages (data from BLS - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm )
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by trention 4y ago
It's interesting how every time I come across an AI-related article, it's always "imagine how much it will improve in 2 years". This may or may not be the case but I get the feeling that most ITs haven't heard of di
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by trention 4y ago
So far no-code and copilot have put exactly 0 developers out of business.

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