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Don't worry, I'm sure eventually you'll simply be required to give one of these things access to your bank account and that decision will be taken out of your hands.

We haven't reoriented the entirety of society and the global economy around Galois theory, nor are all the Galois theory companies worth trillions of dollars.

At some level of abstraction it's all built around allowing you to do some work/play/etc that you understand. Some of that work allows you to make money and eat food.

If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?

To make money in order to eat food and have a home.

I care about having a general purpose web content blocker. I use it for blocking all kinds of things that aren't ads, like YouTube comment sections, random noisy useless cruft I don't care about, etc.

To be clear, this will also happen in the USA. The destruction of privacy is perhaps the only issue with full throated support across the political spectrum.

Based on their actions, virtually all successful high level executives in tech only care about money and they don't care about making good products, etc.

> they're clearly in it just for the money

That's often how jobs work. I happen to like my job, but let's not pretend like everyone is going to make sufficient money following their most passionate interests.

> especially since the US is the only country that has this

I see this said in real life as well, but it's just false. Plenty of countries in North America do this, including Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#North_America

> Canada: Subsection 3(2) of the Citizenship Act states that Canadian citizenship by birth in Canada – including Canadian airspace and territorial waters – is granted to a child born in Canada even if neither parent was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident except if either parent was a diplomat, in service to a diplomat, or employed by an international agency of equal status to a diplomat. However, if neither parent was a diplomat, the nationality or immigration status of the parents does not matter.

I agree. The sheer amount of flexibility it provides makes it both hard to use/read and also not particularly safe/sound. No other type system in existence allows you to be as incoherent as TS.

The issue with TS is that it's not really a type system, it's mostly just comments with a linter bolted on. It tries, but it's fundamentally broken in too many ways.

Here's just one very simple example, there are many more. I've checked all the strict mode options and this appears to still "typecheck".

  var x: {a: number} = {a: 1};
  var y: {a: number|string} = x;
  y.a = 'FAIL';
  var n: number = x.a; // not actually a number

Source: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?noUncheckedIndexedAcces...

This comment seems to presuppose that the "evil capitalists" are infallible.

People can be bad at their jobs and/or can act irrationally.

Bills are not hard to read because they are complex, but because they are poorly written. They generally contain lots of comma-separated lists in sentences, as well as nested conditional clauses.

If they were written in a structured format instead of in prose (think nested bullet points, conditional blocks like a programming language, etc.) then they'd be _significantly_ easier to understand.

I wasn't really interested in asking Claude myself, because I wasn't really able to verify the claims being made so it's just noise. I'd hoped that the person who had written the code and put it up for review would be able to.

I'm seeing plenty of internal work where I ask someone about their code, they ask Claude, and reply with "Claude says...".

That's substantively different than going from assembly to C.

Really? Genuine question - I'd like to move there.

Keep in mind "year round perfect weather" does include summers that aren't preposterously hot.

I've found that everywhere else, certainly in the midwest, where I live, either gets too hot in summer or too cold in winter (or is extremely remote, i.e. Hawaii).

> Now we could have some kind of system whereby excess icons get dumped into a … menu, but that defeats the entire purpose since they’re no longer on the screen all the time!

This is just not true. The purpose is not necessarily to have the icon on the screen all the time. If the menu doesn't exist, the buttons don't exist either, and plenty of applications are built assuming that you have access to their bar icons while they're running.

If the icon is missing there is _literally_ no other way to use the relevant functionality. If the icon is hidden in a menu, you can use the functionality, it's just an extra click.

This is almost a willful misinterpretation of what I said. I didn't say it should be regulated or illegal. I just expressed a thought that perhaps we shouldn't reorient everything around making things easy for the laziest among us.

The amount of lost revenue due to the implication of cut corners needs to be higher than the cost of hiring an artist by enough of a margin that the managers who make the decision start to care, and enough that they're willing to put the effort into hiring an artist.

I'm not sure that making the computers easier to use for "most people" has had a net positive effect on society. If an ability requires effort and discipline to attain, perhaps fewer people would take it for granted and care more about its quality.

The clear intent is to stop allowing regular people to be able to compute...anything. Instead, you'll be given a screen that only connects to $LLM_SERVER and the only interface will be voice/text in which you ask it to do things. It then does those things non-deterministically, and slower than they would be done right now. But at least you won't have control over how it works!

I'm not saying zero actual people care, I'm saying that not enough people care to actually differentiate. Is Windows getting better now that you switched? Then it doesn't matter you left.

Judging by the state of most software I use, customers genuinely could not care less about bugs. Software quality is basically never a product differentiator at this point.

Are you not concerned that this world is deeply tied to you having an internet connection to one of a couple companies' servers? They can jack up the price, cut you off, etc.