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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.

The “nuclear bomb vs coughing baby” meme comes to mind.

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.

Somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy no?

- 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.

What kind of silly take is this?

“You deserve to starve instead!!” - is this really the position you want to argue?

> 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.

Nah name-and-shame them!

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.

Every day, the rate of “could post a picture of 40k tech priests and have it taken unironically” goes up, and it’s starting to get concerning.

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.

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

I’d put money on Apple buying/acqui-hiring the Talaas people to further this.

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.

> The demand for AI data centers is global

Not saying there isn’t demand, but it’s definitely artificially inflated by VC-fomo and circular-funding ~~fraud~~ shenanigans.

> If OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI weren’t building them

One of these companies is responsible for buying up DRAM wafers, in what still appears to be an attempt to deny them to everyone else, and another one of these companies seemingly exists to launder money for a fascist billionaire.

> In the right geography — somewhere with reliably cool outdoor air

Aaahh, there’s the catch. “Save resources on cooling by building your data centre somewhere cold, and pollute the surrounding environment by dumping your waste heat wholesale into that!”

Good job Nvidia, I almost thought we had something good there.

I haven encountered a _shocking_ number of people who treat Redis as a persistent store. There mere mention that it has some kind of persistence machinery is enough to convince some that is therefore durable and stable and should be treated like a DB.

I mean sure, I’d you’re attempting to run the biggest possible models, it’s going to require a stupid amount of compute? I thought we all knew this?

The appeal to me is that we can run that, but we can also run smaller models on your laptop _and it’s functional!_ I can run DeepSeek v4 flash and a qwen 3.6 on my laptop! Thats crazy good.

I’ll go you one better: integrate it into your language and have the compiler enforce it for you!

Given the uhhh, quality and issues GitHub and Microslop have been exhibiting recently, that’s probably not a great indicator.

> With a big enough data set of [all kinds of bio values, including ones considered irrelevant for that disease] labeled with diagnoses

> > labeled with diagnoses

I know you’re not suggesting this is easy, but I can absolutely promise that the land of medical reporting, diagnosis and imagery is about a 1000x more complicated and unhinged than you might expect.

I like how “you’ve fallen behind” is the ai version of “you’re not gonna make it” from the crypto-bro days.

Ah yes, because of all the people at home with computers who have…checks notes…datacentre GPU’s lying around.

> Actually good quality stuff is prohibitively expensive for the non-ultra rich, and the rest of the quality stuff is increasingly being hollowed out by private equity and rapidly declining quality. People just can’t afford to pay for quality and things that last due to price gouging, wage stagnation, and increased cost-of-living.

There, fixed that for you.

None of that matters, if the populace lacks the purchasing power to sustain these “new markets”. It also assumes, that incumbents won’t enter the new markets, and acquire/squeeze/kill the new players.