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> Why do we assume that Prompt Engineering is going to pay less money. I supposed because every new job title that has come out in the last 20+ years has followed the same approach of initially the same or slightly more money, followed b
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I'm not sure grandma at age 88 will be performing with any kind of livable return. /s
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There are no jobs, and AI will be slashing the white collar jobs we already have (70% of the economy). That puts the lower caste unable to feed themselves which always results in national instability usually accompanied by the weakness bein
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FYI - This is a short story; its fiction based on pythonese surrounding concurrency. They seem to be taking a War of the Worlds radio approach to it.
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Exactly... Unless there is a physical process preventing an incentivized company to not raise the price in bait and switch manner, it will happen; and the only reason it hasn't happened yet is because they know people are paying attent
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The statements you made are quite reductionist and dismissive based in fallacy. You provide no definition for your use of an inherently relative and ambiguous word that lacks a distinct meaning on its own. Sorry, but it seems you didn'
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> the relevant conundrum is if you trust the people who clean it and those who make sure it is clean. Time and time again history is replete with examples where that trust has been repeatedly misplaced and abused. There can be no trust w
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This is by far the safer way to do these things. You never know what's going to happen when you Geneer a completely new organism and then release it into the wild.
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> I can guarantee you that bullying was around before 1966. Sure, but it wasn't nearly as prevalent, exposure was limited, and the school's zero tolerance policies towards violence back then wouldn't get you (the victim) i
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> This is all very vague and abstract. Fair enough. Lets start with a definition of what is torturous. I tried to condense it but there is a lot of background details/material that matter. To recognize torture and torturous processe
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> How many people would need to be involved. At a guess, at least 25% of any given year, given the sequential nature of education as a sieve. Knowingly or Unknowingly. The people that pass end up being selected for compliance, blindness,
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One of the biggest problems with the prison system in the US is that prisoners are often saddled with the debt related to or imposed on them by their incarceration which they can't pay back. The inability to find a job coupled with the
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Sure, but only if you are still in the business and can communicate with those people, but there's so much interference by the point of time that this happens that everything is paralyzed. The price tag must still make that worthwhile
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Cloud was a nice promise that was broken all too quickly. This is why cloud repatriation is a growing trend, that and a growingly brittle cloud with outages that are outside anyone's control, and the costs unmanageable. There are also
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Unfortunately, this is not surprising. The profession has been trending sharply down since modern LLM AI has come onto the scene. Prior to that standard automation/resiliency practices has reduced the number of people needed for these
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I'd be interested to compare the outcomes of this supposed gender gap in education prior to the adoption of the existing teaching structures and pedagogy used today. Specifically, going back to the way in which things were taught aroun
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To put this in perspective. This generally speaking accounts for somewhere between 60-70% of all the jobs out there in the US right now, those jobs called white collar jobs. For the sake of argument, let me ask you these questions, and upon
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The thoughts on this really don't matter, its wasted effort. There is one Organic molecular machines with consciousness that we can already build and they are called babies. There is a simple way for most of us to do that, and anything
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This concept's conclusion is fully sketched out in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age.
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Agreed. This is the most likely outcome of this, and it won't be regular drones it will be a race to toner wars from Neal Stephenson's "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer." Floating clouds of molecular drones ever-pr
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> It took some work to get it done... Except, this was just a temporary measure, and largely was rapidly undone through concerted effort from the Fed and its partner money-printers (following the abandonment of the sound dollar policy&#x
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In my opinion, you need to properly define ambiguous terms, one person's radicalized is another person's principle. The same as one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter (i.e. in Venezuela, and its losin
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In fairness the DEI that is being pushed today is just a modern repackage/rebranding of Maoism which is based in Marxism. It fails economically, given sufficient time, as communism always does absent a Capitalist society generating eco
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Inexpensive is a relative indirect term. Can you clarify what you mean here? The expense of an LLM prompt is cents, the expense of a entry-level programmer is at least 50k/yr. Why would this be? Its simple economics. There are firm re
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> The FUD to spread is not that AI... It is both. The inconsistency of the distorted reflected appraisal in the responses of these things does harm people, but you don't realize it because its subliminal. Without knowing how cult pr
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> The key question is "For whom?" Because there are clear winners and losers as in any social fad. Are there though? We are just at the front of the curve, if we look at the whole... what if AI destroys the underlying mechanics
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> The whole thing is basically you can't know anything.... Well that position is hopelessly circular, filled with sophistry and fallacy. Descartes proved that one wrong in the 1600s. "Cogito, ergo sum," > Where is the p
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There are many problems but immigration isn't one of them. The employers/government don't do this because the prices of existing goods depend on that cheap labor. Money printing (deficit spending) through the economy has crea
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In many respects calorie counting is an exercise in misinformation induced stupidity, from bad science. What people fail to realize is the calories on the label aren't the calories they are actually getting. Those on the label are the
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Not just a total rethinking, but rather a total redevelopment to find an economic system that is just as stable as capitalism in a free market (without fiat). Socialism fails 100% of the time given sufficient time, UBI is tied to socialism.
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