Not if there’s good money to be made exploiting people for money instead!
There’s plenty of evidence that these models worsen these issues, and we know from prior experience that companies like FB will happily exploit vulnerable users for money.
Well this is a new brand of whataboutism I haven’t seen before!
Did something bad? Better ablate yourself of the responsibility of holding people to account for making it _worse_! Acting this way just makes it seem more like you regret the blood on your hands because it has dirtied your shirt, and not because you’ve done something actually bad, otherwise you’d have at least some degree of guilt and reticence to see things get worse.
This is a cute argument to make, which patently doesn’t work in the face of decades of evidence on the pernicious effects of social media _alone_, let alone the “turbo infantilising sycophancy machine”.
Pretending that everything’s totally fine and ok because “it’s adults” really just disregards reality.
- nobody else with the skills
- talk to machine
- nobody develops the skills to have a conversation
- go to step 1.
- bonus step: your own skills atrophy too.
“Who cares about dirty syringes being left in the street, it’s really important for my work that I have access to the heroin I need”.
Things in society don’t exist in a vacuum, and “who cares about them, so long as I get my needs” is quite literally a part of the problem being discussed.
This is repeatedly the argument rolled out by people desperate to get us to accept it at all costs.
Ai doesn’t technically stop me writing code. But it’s sucked so much joy and interest out of it, that I can’t scrape together the motivation to work on side projects anymore. It has a “chilling effect” the effects of which are notoriously indirect to observe.
> Can you just take half the module, ctrl-x, ctrl-v into a new file, and get faster compilation times without having to do any massive refactors?…In Rust, almost always no, because of circular dependencies
This feels like a strange, overly-specific complaint.
It reads a bit like “When I write entangled code, it’s hard to untangle”. Like, yeah, the only thing that’ll save you from that is…not writing entangled code? I’m not of the opinion that the argument of “yeah but C lets me do whacky stuff” is a particularly strong line.
FWIW, letting a module grow, and then splitting modules up by cut-and-pasting stuff out along natural domain lines generally _is_ how I write Rust. Largely due to how easy it makes it to construct modules and submodules.
> Anybody here think that Palantir is not a security risk for Spain?
It boggles the mind a bit, but I’ve seen a few comments on here with people defending them to the tune of “what’s the big deal, they just help governments with their data! They're innocent” which is uh, either aggressively naive, or just paid PR behaviour.
Forza Horizon 6 was a bit of a shit-fight to get it working. GPU crashes, audio just failing, and 20-questions with what combination of runtime and configs would get it to play ball, and it would break after some patches, but it really stabilised now and most issues I’ve had have disappeared.
I wish I could work somewhere where I’m _marginally_ less subject to the whims of the Boardroom class.
I’m sure they’re having a great time, and getting filthy rich doing it, but I don’t enjoy having my livelihood attached to the consequences of their repeatedly-stupid-behaviour.
If you’re fine with a future like Warhammer 40k where we all have to be Tech Priests making prayers and performing opaque rituals to get things out of the machine god because we no longer understand things, that’s fine, but that’s not a future the rest of us want.
This is usually my default position, but apparently that “gas town” article was Real and Serious and Distinctly Not Satire, and I started to feel reality fragmenting underneath me.
Would pay good money to see Silicon Valley complete their disconnection from reality and drift off into the void. The rest of us would get some semblance of normality back if they did.