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Yeah we're rapidly transgressing to "AI, think for me" territory. At this point I just try to enjoy this somehow. The economic pressure is way too strong.

Just one more innovation and humanity will heal. Just one more!

Then it's a game about collecting enough capital that you'll be the last one standing.

"This is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here."

This has already been the case with classical software. AI only stretches it further.

When everyone suddenly started calling themselves engineers instead of programmers I cringed (yes, that's a lot of cringe over the past decade+), precisely because no formal guarantees were ever given (and still largely aren't).

It's like eyeballing the dimensions of a building and saying it should hold. That said, I see the discipline excused. The stakes weren't that high and it was all very new... And e.g. mechanical engineering went through this as well, except a lot of people actually died.

Time to shine, theoretical CS, time to shine.

Appreciate the load-bearing info.

Sure you can torture your children with ever harsher "education", almost none of which matters in non-research positions. Then don't be surprised when they run out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_theory is pretty much about this.

I don't interpret it to that extreme. I think it's more about shutting out noise and acting along a thread that keeps you pleased without interference from e.g. brainrot media or an over-demanding job.

Arguably a reason most everyone found the early internet/web so awesome: it wasn't as commoditized into feeds and platforms. You were an adventurer on an undiscovered planet, a secret life beside the boring real one and just did your thing. It's how most of us ended up here, anyhow.

In Germany there is a "Vorabpauschale" where you pay a certain part of the capital gains tax on ETFs, certain funds even with unrealised gains. These are later accounted for when you sell. Though AFAIK if you sell at a loss you can't get the Vorabpauschale back directly, but it would increase the losses you can potentially apply against other gains. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorabpauschale

That insight was then. The current insight is that robot girls' task schedulers are configurable.

Ruined how? Hard to imagine a consumer handheld water jet can erode enamel.

That said this looks like a ridiculously overengineered product. Electric toothbrushes have come a long way, at a fraction of the price.

Edit: Ah a gum problem, yeah I've been warned about that (by a dentist no less). I just use interdental brushes.

Yeah, I feel DIY is definitely on an upswing. There's surprisingly decent info, tools and parts for cheap to be found. And materials are getting simpler to work with.

There are still things that will remain difficult (or illegal) in domestic settings for DIY, of course, but that's no model for full employment.

I haven't got any experience with them but there's even vendors for house assembly kits that cost a fraction of a finished one. Imagine you idiot-proof house planning and building: just do exactly what the app says.

I wonder just how far we have to push this until we finally get the 10h work week.

A prompt is not malicious software, it's an input. It's similar to SQL injection (query evaluation from unsanitised input), unless that injection also leads to arbitrary code execution, which could involve actual malware as payload. Of course a malicious prompt could lead the LLM to generate and run said malware for the attacker, or it could act itself as malware.

Kitboga (guy who trolls scammers) has some funny CAPTCHA setups if you need inspiration. E.g. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TOzEnwl7LkA

Then again, if the permanent underclass hypothesis turns out to be true, baking the old way may become the only choice.

Someone better figure out how to make computing devices at home from everyday parts because the only way I see this (shockingly rapid) arms race end is legally mandated, cryptographically locked down hardware and software (or even thin clients) everywhere.

RMS must be having daily nightmares at this point.

P.S.: Fantastic talk you linked there.

Given you have some experience with this sort of medication would you say it could help with restoring any motivation? It's killing me slowly, but surely...

I read the lack of real-life consequences as a sign that gains through digital technology as a whole become ever more marginal.

What would produce huge "gains" (depends on who you ask) again is the automation of the myriad non-digital roles/companies, but good luck with that...

There's more than enough energy and resources to go around for humans to peacefully coexist "forever", albeit in lesser numbers than today. The civilization meta game is what ruins it, despite our best attempts to regulate that. And a global self destruct button helps massively... until it does not.

RIP. I quit ~10 years ago, but you didn't deserve this.

What was the domain?

Stories/comments like these make me want to dedollarise.

The longings for simpler days are definitely still with us. They explain a lot of social dysfunction. E.g. see Terence McKenna.

You'd still get regional overpopulation issues. E.g. the Justinian plague in 541 AD. That's still far away from mobile hunter gatherer tribes with densities of a few dozen people per 1-100 km^2.

Homo sapiens is 300,000 years old, Homo erectus 2 million years. Modern civilization might not last on the order of 10,000 years, industrial civilization maybe not even 500 - or perhaps "forever", if we make it to controllable runaway technological improvement?

Precivilisational lifestyles can only carry a small fraction of our current population. To a significant degree we're locked into this, and have been for thousands of years.

Given all the other phenomena going on around computing, I may soon go back offline.

A few weeks ago we had 30 degC indoors at 70% humidity after a brief thunderstorm. That felt... stressful - at a wet bulb temperatures of only 25 degC, see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Diagramm.... Apparently dangerous/lethal wet bulb temperatures begin at 30/31 degC and now I can see why.

Also what you describe is called "Virga".

> or stop them from reproducing

It may not be possible to breed any trait to any distribution one would like.

For body size, maybe, also depending on maternal nutrition. But apparently there is (and anthropologists think always has been) a certain percentage of people with schizophrenia even though it carries a severe reproductive disadvantage.

Similarly, it may well be that personality always approaches a certain distribution like a random experiment.

The culling mechanism would work in any case, of course.