bluefirebrand

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

So what are people like me, who fall into "some values of no one" supposed to do?

I guess just blow my brains out? Just.. Thanks for trying man, but you picked the wrong thing to specialize in, now you're completely redundant and worthless to society. Here's your cyanide pill?

God damn I'm so bitter about all of this. I was doing so well for a bit now I feel like I've completely wasted my life.

Finance people are welcome to go live in shoeboxes and invest in higher yielding assets, clears them out of the housing market for the rest of us who value a house to live in over higher yields.

Facebook has been doing this to me too when trying to revive my old account for using stuff like Marketplace.

I get wanting some kind of verification but hell no I'm not giving you a photo of my ID.

Let me make a new account then. But they won't.

It's still a site that is free to sign up

And hey, I'm unemployed at the moment. I'm a zero income earner. And yet, I'm still here.

> I think a lot of these voices would change if they just had 20% of disposable income auto-invested in equities from an early age

What disposable income? When I was younger I had none, I was too busy paying rent and tuition,

> It's true that China benefitted immensely from outsourcing, but they took the jobs Americans didn't want

They took jobs that Americans would have wanted higher pay to do, higher benefits, higher safety standards...

> Like a friend of mine without even a highschool degree became a tree surgeon and his business is making enough money now that rivals the rates of tech and finance bros in London

Intelligent or "smarts" is not measured by how successful you are or how much money you make.

Also great for your friend, but no one would hire him to do that if machines could do it for them

> When was this ever NOT the case? Without inherited generational wealth you're at the mercy of the capital/asset owning class to make a living.

What are you talking about? The capital class always relied on the professional class just as much. A wealthy person who owns a machine shop relies on machinists to make money. :/

I don't really draw much distinction between debugging and writing code. You really can't do one very effectively without the other imo

But you're right. The better indication of capability is debugging skill than writing skill.

You can't learn what good code is by reading it, you have to write code to learn what good code looks like

Sure. But I still want to do that 5%, because that's the part I enjoy the most. :/

> It blows my mind that people don’t care about the world they are building with this stuff. It’s a real tragedy of the commons.

When I ask people about things like this, I hear a lot of "If I don't build it, someone else will"

My goal isn't just to refuse to build this stuff, it is actively to resist the people who are.

I don't have much influence though

> I don't feel pride in it (even when I write it by hand).

Hard for me to imagine. You feel no pride in using a tool to accomplish a goal?

> Code has no such personality. I don't tie my identity or ego to code the same way I would an essay

Code certainly does have a personality. When working with teams for a while you can absolutely get a sense for which person wrote what code in a codebase, just by subtle little tells.

You may not tie your identity or ego to it, bully for you, but for me I take a lot of pride in writing clear and maintainable code that contributes to big projects in meaningful ways.

Maybe the problem with software is there's too many people who treat writing code as a mere means to an end, instead of a very important part of the process.

A big part of the reason I'm deeply resentful of AI is that I want to be an artist not an editor

> There's a huge legal distinction there, and it affects taxes, liability, etc

Yes there is

I'm saying there shouldn't be. It's exploitative.

It is a stated goal of several prominent AI business leaders. Altman, Amodei, and Musk at the very least have had mask-off moments where they said as much.

What do we do when former window repairman can't find other jobs? Just fuck em, right?

The narrative we're seeing around AI and current automation isn't "we're going to automate one category of jobs". If it were then sure, we could be relatively confident that the excess labor from that industry would be absorbed by other segments

But that's not what the future looks like to me. The future to me looks like "we want to automate a large majority of labor"

So what then? If tons of labour is displaced then the Broken Window Fallacy doesn't really apply, because it is based on the assumption that there will always be something for displaced labour to do.

Call it the Excess Labor Corollary. If there's no way to absorb excess labor in other segments, then what.

> Society is not worse off when production requires less labor

Society is definitely worse off when people who exchange their labor for capital have no opportunities to do so

> Yes, a human might do this step for you

An artist (even a mediocre one) almost certainly would do this step for you

Maybe they see the random AI art on the bus and they realize that meant a real human artist probably didn't get paid to make it so society is worse off. Maybe those poll respondents have empathy, in that they are worried about their jobs and feel bad for other people who have lost work to AI too

As if Uber's policies and incentives have zero influence on their "contractors" behaviour

Get real