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I've noticed this too as a DougDoug fan. He seemed to be genuinely confused by general strong opposition to AI from his audience despite a lot of his content, including some of the most well-received videos, being AI-focused. I think the secret is exactly what you describe - his AI characters tend to be extremely deranged and incompetent which is what makes them hilarious.

You need cars because you live in the country where cities are built around the assumption of car ownership. Go to any place with an adequate public transit and you'll see a lot less cars. Go to Tokyo and you'll be shocked, it's the largest city in the world and their highways are practically empty. It just doesn't make any sense to drive when your public transit is that good.

> But in real life, Anarchists will still argue that a Benevolent-Dictator-For-Life governance approach is wrong, even if it applies to digital artifacts that have zero marginal cost.

no they won't, FOSS project's governance model has no relevance to anarchist discussion. anarchists are against coercive authority, not leadership in general, and FOSS does operate under anarchist principles, which is why anarchist community is a strict subset of FOSS community.

there's nothing wise about hoarding

it's heavy lifestyle restrictions that lead to anti-social behavior in the first place. by far the most common crime is property crime, people usually commit it out of desperation and lack of opportunity. the degree of personal freedom in a capitalist state is defined by wealth, which creates a natural incentive to steal. then when they do, those people are put in prison, where they connect with other labeled criminals, all of whom face significantly lower chances of being hired, making sure that doing anything else in their life except crime will be as difficult as possible. aren't those heavy lifestyle restrictions enforced on people by government?

can you share any examples of these "new and better ways to use them"? because the only way I've used LLM and seen other people use it is to literally just talk to it, which doesn't require any skills beyond basic conversational abilities.

Satoshi may also be unable to cash out simply because they are dead.

it's an exaggeration for sure but I don't think it's a stretch to believe Anthropic spends considerably more effort on data scraping & curation than anything else

To me the image of a world where everyone does menial work while entertaining themselves with AI-generated "art" doesn't seem fun, it seems extremely depressing and dystopian. I guess we just have different values.

Anecdotally I'm programming for non-English business domains in Go and Python and I've literally never seen anyone use native alphabet in identifiers - it's always either poor translations or transliterations.

it is weird, especially for Go with its semantic naming and famously opinionated compiler. it will gladly build code with a variable named 𖤐界ᥱᥲΣ੭, but God forbid it's unused.

> detractors slow the pace of progress

Considering our climate, political and economic situation, I'd say not only is slowing the pace of progress not harmful, it's actually imperative for our long-term survival.

This very comment is measurably more harmful than any AI criticism that annoys you - someone will read this and assume it's appropriate to accept whatever bullshit Claude generates at face value, with terrible consequences.

In contrast, what harm do those detractors cause? They don't generate as much code per hour?

> RIP full Ublock Origin

it's alive and well

amidst this whole AI craze it's illuminating to learn how many programmers secretly hated programming all along

My impression is that it's mostly Western secular interpretation while the largest branch of Buddhism and the most predominant in Asia currently is Mahayana where Buddha, or rather Buddhas (as it has many others besides Siddhartha Gautama), are seen as omnipotent spiritual beings with supernatural powers, who are accessible through prayer after apparent death of their human form, which seems close to our traditional concept of deities.

I'm all for trying to be the best version of yourself, but I think it's discouraging to tie it with the person's worth as a friend. Replying with "find interesting hobby" to the poster who explicitly wrote he finds it hard to find a hobby in particular reads like condemnation, as if until you don't lock in and check those boxes don't even try to socialize. Imagine you meet an interesting person, learn they don't really have any hobbies, and break off a friendship because of it - I'd find that psychopathic. Why should we foster this attitude towards ourselves?

That implies they think some people (apparently the ones who eat takeout or don't go to gym), are just not "good enough" to have friends. It's an esteem for others issue.

I don't know if this list motivates anyone, it just makes me feel like I'm not worth being friends with and I will be forever alone, even though I do have friends.

Seriously, do you only befriend perfect people?

> hey chatgpt give me a snarky response to this comment that would wittily refute the argument, make it funny and interesting, concise and to the point

Ah yes, the “tiny little seed” defense — because if I hum three notes and Quincy Jones writes the symphony, clearly we co-composed it.

Sure, prompting involves taste and direction. So does ordering at a restaurant. But if I tell the chef “spicy, but make it fusion” and then Instagram the plate as my culinary creation, I’m not suddenly Gordon Ramsay.

Nobody’s saying there’s zero input. We’re saying input isn’t authorship. A seed isn’t a forest — and picking your favorite output isn’t the same as growing it.

The solution to social anxiety suggested in the article boils down to "just stop being anxious".

I'm glad for people who don't struggle with this, I just wish they would be more empathetic.

It's exactly concerns like these that could drive people into loneliness and nihilism, when constant disappointment with a lack of care from society turns into hatred and despair.

Is it the first time when workers directly work on their own replacement? If so, software developer may go down in history as the dumbest profession ever.

but annoying hype is exactly the issue with AI in my eyes. I get it's a useful tool in moderation and all, but I also experience that management values speed and quantity of delivery above all else, and hype-driven as they are I fear they will run this industry to the ground and we as users and customers will have to deal with the world where software is permanently broken as a giant pile of unmaintainable vibe code and no experienced junior developers to boot.

> Interesting that every time Helix comes up, someone just has to mention Neovim.

that apparently includes helix's creators, considering neovim is mentioned both on its website and in its repository's readme

this used to be a valid selling point for helix until neovim added LSP and treesitter support to the editor, which happened years ago. modern neovim is quite capable out of the box.

search for a plain english translation, it's out there

GNU ls sorts alphabetically "if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified".

I assume you refer to the killing, which was done offline with a physical weapon.

do you think less online anonymity would've prevented Lincoln's assassination too?

and compare it to all the times breakthrough is made by iteration