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> So, how will you ensure that you have some influence over the world or power, if all human labour ends?

I don't want influence or power. Don't know what your short story has to do with anything, frankly a bizarre comparison to make.

Who cares. IP is a fiction, all copyrights and patents should be abolished.

> Yes, but we're the horse in that scenario.

Good! End human labor.

Personally I dream of the end of all human labor.

All the GPL does is restrict rights, unlike permissive licenses.

I just...could never see myself EVER going back to using a pen or pencil (in fact, I would need to dig for one, I don't even have one at my desk at the moment). What exactly are you even writing that you need to carry a notebook on your person at all times? For me it was the opposite, I complained I would never use cursive in college/as an adult, and that I would just type everything...which is exactly what happened. Hell, outside of doctor's forms and signatures for those, I can't really recall the last time I even needed to pick up a pen or pencil.

A Hindi word in the middle of a normal reply for me (but once I translated the word it was right in context heh)

Which motherboard did you have those in? I had a dual socket 370 EPoX board, but I never put a second CPU in it.

Also, sounds like I should work on upstreaming my Rage Fury 128 emulation...and the EPoX SMP emulation...(the perils of too much ADHD and too few tokens)

How you get "simple universal aphorism" from "here's a brilliant humanities insight which can be applied to tech" I don't know.

Hell, I can come up with one myself:

"The medium is the message." - Marshall McLuhan

On second thought, perhaps it's both after all :P

> tech-adjacent humanities work

The thing is, these people always privilege the classics over more recent works that are just as philosophical. I for one probably learned more philosophy reading a pile of Neal Stephenson novels at age 16-18 than I did in college. Heck, my History and Philosophy of Science civilization sequence had a whole quarter on the Scientific Revolution, but after reading the Baroque Cycle it was mostly old hat. :P

> You're making the usual mistake of assuming math and science are objective. They really aren't.

No, we are rejecting that premise entirely.

> Whereas the OP apparently wants something like a top 10 list of brilliant humanities insights

> > "here's a brilliant humanities insight which can be applied to tech"

You are making a strawman of what OP said.

First off, I never said that psychology was a humanity, you are conflating the two (and in fact, I was comparing the social sciences to the humanities, I'm not sure how you missed that?). This was a class, in the social sciences, for the social science sequence credit, /taught/ by psychologists and focusing on the mind. I think you'll find there are whole schools of psychology that are in the social sciences (the aptly named social psychology, for one).

I thought the humanities were supposed to train you to better express and share ideas? Seems like a major failure if they can't communicate to those outside their field.

And sometimes, the valid outcome is to deny a claim. It's not like fraud magically disappears in the world of health insurance.

Why? Things have never been better on Earth, meanwhile we have people in the thread romanticizing life hundreds of years ago.

Jokes on them if we're in a simulation, that, or one of the marbles from Men In Black :P

> What remains scarce is the ability to write a precise specification, think critically about edge cases, understand user empathy, and communicate complex trade offs without buzzwords.

What prevents LLMs from doing these? What fundamental barrier do you see?

What CS curriculum? Why would people still be writing code in the future?

> There can't possibly be a good outcome out of that.

You really can't see /any/ possibly good outcome?

Well yes, I chose the elimination of human labor.

I'd have to imagine a fairly large majority of US executives attended colleges that required humanities classes, right?

I don't have much against the humanities, but my social science sequence in college only taught me how bad psychology was as a field (being taught in biology how to read and weigh journal articles while simultaneously being assigned psych articles with tiny samples and dubious methodology...was amusing, to say the least).

I'm sorry, but to me this just reads like someone who is high on their own supply? Seems like a lot of words to say that people should diversify into skills that AI is bad at...for now.

Well, Plato was a fascist according to Popper, so... :P

> "human first thoughts"

And what exactly do you define those as?

On the site run by a VC firm? Why is that a shock? Besides, hacker does not mean being a kneejerking reactionary against corporations.

Okay, so all you have are personal attacks, goodbye.

And if you look at SpaceX's Starmind sats, they will have a 160 m^2 liquid radiator for 175kw/250kw peak compute.

> He is free to launch his own space GPU if he is so confident it is profitable*.

Are you not aware that's exactly what SpaceX is doing?? https://www.spacex.com/spacexai/starmind Sure, it's now SpaceXAI or whatever, but how is that any different than Google sending up sats and selling the compute via Gemini?