Strong disagree. One of my favorite use cases for LLM chatbots is to satisfy random niche curiosities whenever they cross my mind and get pointers for further reading. This often leads to going down some niche rabbit hole and learning some interesting stuff in the process.
Whenever I tried the same with Google in the past, more often than not I couldn't find what I was looking for, because I didn't know the correct keywords to search for in order to start getting relevant results. With ChatGPT & co. I can just pose the question in natural language, get results and continue exploring.
That would be as close to a declaration of war as you can get without firing a bullet.
The immediate and obvious response would be for the foreign branches of those companies to be declared "of national interest", nationalized and forced to keep operating.
I'll take a trip by train or plane rather than by car every single time.
I feel WAY more safe knowing that the vehicle is operated by trained professionals and there's an extremely robust system around them to ensure safety, rather than whatever semblance of control I think I have driving my car.
So you don't do anything because you have a job you need to keep and a kid to take care of, but you're perfectly okay with moving to a completely different country on short notice?
- The American political system has been very successful in telling its people that the only acceptable way to show discontent and enact change is by voting on elections.
- Lots of people are okay with it because it can only happen to the "bad guys", and why would it ever happen to them since they're the "good guys"... right?
Many people share the worldview that those who are higher up in the hierarchy of power are the most capable or deserving of such positions.
So when those leaders start acting in a way that is irrational or clearly damaging, there's a pretty strong cognitive dissonance. There are two ways to deal with it:
- Assume that, since they're the higher-ups, they must know what they're doing. Therefore there must be some sort of plan that you're not able or supposed to understand.
- Reassess the notion that the higher-ups are always the most capable or deserving people, and assume there's a chance for inept people to access positions of power.
The first one is the path of least resistance, since it doesn't require challenging a fundamental pillar of your worldview.
Type hints are nice, until you have to interact with a library that isn't type-hinted, and then it very quickly becomes a mess.
I don't know how other IDEs behave, but VScode + the Python extensions try to infer the missing hints and you end up with beauties such as `str | None | Any | Unknown`, which of course are completely meaningless.
Even worse, the IDE marks as an error some code that is perfectly correct, because it somehow doesn't match those nonsensical hints. And so it gives you the worst of both worlds: a lot of false positives that you quickly learn to ignore, dooming the few actual type errors to irrelevance, because you'll ignore them anyways until they blow up at runtime, just as it'd happen without typehints.
In Spain, you can return things that you didn't buy in person (eg online, on a catalogue or via phone) within 14 days of receiving it for any reason whatsoever, as long as it's still in good condition.
Whenever I tried the same with Google in the past, more often than not I couldn't find what I was looking for, because I didn't know the correct keywords to search for in order to start getting relevant results. With ChatGPT & co. I can just pose the question in natural language, get results and continue exploring.