bluefirebrand

Of course the Turing test was flawed. We already knew that based on the Chinese Room argument.

Sure, last year and the year before it slowed down, after several years of increasing record highs. 2021 - 2024 all had higher rates. We had over 2% for consecutive years.

More than 20% of Canada's current population was born outside of Canada. That's a substantial block of people!

I'm not against immigration by any means, but still. Immigrant Canadians are strongly likely to outnumber born Canadians in my lifetime

I asked some of my Indigenous friends here how that worked out for them and they said not great

Well, that's assuming you are ever able to claim your phone back. From what I understand police might just keep it indefinitely until they are able to access it, unless you get some kind of court order that it he returned to you

Even then, who enforces the court order? :/

> But if you're genuinely interested in finding someone, it's surprisingly easy to find them.

I had a really weird experience along these lines recently, maybe a year ago. I wasn't really looking for familiar faces, but I was browsing on the lobster site and came across a name I hadn't seen since maybe 2002? I was a member on a vbulletin (I think it was vbulletin or phpbb) forum they ran. I don't have a login over there so I wasn't able to ping the user so it's been on my mind as a bit of a missed connection

Of course now that I've remembered this, it has been surprisingly easy to find them and I might reach out. They probably don't realize how much of an impact they had on me when I was younger

The big assumption here is that people are either proposers or receivers and never switch roles.

Which may be largely true for many people but it's definitely not a fixed thing!

When I was dating, I initiated with a lot of women, but the woman I wound up marrying messaged me first.

Give us a single example of a job that you believe can never be done by robots or AI.

> HN: A site full of bold futurists where it's easier to imagine the end of the humanity than the end of capitalism

HN is literally owned and operated by venture capitalists why are you surprised by this.

It is kind of on the low end of rich though.

Don't get me wrong. I would love to have that kind of money. I would retire immediately if that was in my bank account.

But we're comparing to people who have 100x that. Or nowadays apparently literal trillionaires.

Like there's rich and then there's rich

Keep in mind that the situation that the OP suggested is a sort of spherical cow. Substantially more people earn <40k per year than earn 450k per year. It is extremely unlikely to earn that kind of money over that kind of timeframe, nevermind being able to save every single cent of it

Of course the reason that people don't care enough to change their lifestyles is because

> A healthful vegetarian diet is not hard to achieve, at least no harder than a healthful non-vegetarian diet.

Might be true but isn't sufficient

It's still way easier to have an omnivore diet than a strictly vegetarian one. Partly that's due to how society is currently structured, but people still ate meat long before society was structured this way. Because it was easier.

It's true we're not obligate carnivores, but we do need a lot of the nutrients that meat also provides and is an easy source of

Providing a fully vegetarian diet for everyone is kind of non-starter.

Bringing up agriculture is definitely a bad faith attack.

People need to eat, it's non negotiable. We do not need data centres.

> Learning isn’t copyright infringement. Never has been and hopefully never will be.

For humans.

Why should computer systems owned by corporations have anything remotely similar to the same freedoms as humans?

> Because these batteries are rated to last at least 10 years either way

They are rated to last at least 10 years (under X usage conditions)

They won't last nearly that long under Y usage conditions if Y is substantially larger than X

> Not an app with code written so beautifully it could win a Pulitzer but an app that will be used a couple of times and then discarded

This is almost by definition not revolutionary

> there are an infinite number of ways to wrap it that will bypass your specification system.

Which will matter to no one except lawyers

When most people smell shit they don't care if it's rat shit or cat shit, they just know it smells bad

> I'm not sure is disagree with you but I think it is hard to start drawing these lines without saying you are now the arbiter of good art and bad art

There's a super easy line to draw actually and it has nothing to do with art

Are you selling a product or an experience?

If you're talking about someone addicted to fantasy novels or video games, they are addicted to products.

If you're talking about someone addicted to opening Magic the Gathering booster packs, or videogame loot boxes, or sports gambling, or prediction markets, they are addicted to experiences. In the case of loot boxes they are experiences shaped like products but the addiction is about the experience of opening the box, not really whatever is inside

So.. easier than you seem to think

Of course once lawyers get involved they'll quibble over this shit until the sun goes out

> It would mean putting more constraints on corporate power

Yes please! I would vote for this wholeheartedly

I don't think phones should really count because people don't really make a choice about their browser on phones. Mostly they just use whatever came pre-installed

Probably because what this poster seems to be implying is a sort of inconvenient or unpopular truth. The kinds of things that there's no point actually saying out loud no matter how true they are, because they just make people angry and being explicit about it just paints a sort of target on you instead of actually driving anything towards a solution

We already have a lot of studies and statistics about problems with education, but the narrative about education problems seem to focus on the wrong things, things that the studies and statistics don't really support.

> Why is it so hard for people to just put in the time?

All my life the older generations has been accusing my cohort of being the "instant gratification generation" and I hate how right they have turned out to be.

Way too many of these unfortunately. Just way way way too many.

Hear hear!

Alternatively, this might accurately identify Chinese models so you can avoid them if that's your goal

Personally I don't have much interest in using models that blatantly censor historical facts.

Tiananmen Square is an obvious one but I would be concerned that any model that censors that would also have other hidden censorship or more subtle biases I wouldn't catch

I was born Canada. Lived here my whole life. I'm ~40ish years old

It's absolutely become worse since the 80s

I get a lot of shit from my fellow countrymen when I say it. Rose colored glasses, etc

But nah. It's way harder to be successful here than it was even 20 years ago

What percentage of immigrants being dependents on welfare would you consider reasonable?

Why exactly do you think I'm so bitter?

If I knew what to retrain into I would sign up immediately.

Right now I'm just at a loss. I've never wanted to be anything other than a programmer before.

Excitement is for when good things happen.

A promotion is only a good thing if you actually benefit from it

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure it never worked out great for many of those people regardless of what they did.

> I feel like I’ve been promoted

The correct response to "I feel I have been promoted (without a corresponding title or pay change)" is to be pissed off, not excited