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Except the definitions of poverty are defined to make it seems like it's not poverty. When you have a massive amount of the population that lives paycheck to paycheck, is one small medical emergency away from bankruptcy / can't pay their rent/mortgage. Will lose their job because of little to no protections. Very little social safety nets... most people are a lot closer to 'poverty' than looking at simple statistics.

The "Christian value system" isn't something to revere.

I have been building a game via a separate game logic library and Unity (which includes that independent library).. let's just say that over the last couple weeks I have 100% lost the need to do the coding myself. I keep iterating and have it improve and there are hundreds of unit tests.. I have a Unity MCP and it does 95% of the Unity work for me. Of course the real game will need custom designing and all that; but in terms of getting a complete prototype setup.... I am literally no longer the coder. I just did in a week what it would have taken me months and months and months to do. Granted Unity is still somewhat new to, but still.. even if you are an expert- it can immediately look at all your game objects and detect issues etc.

So yeah for some things we are already at the point of "I am not longer the coder, I am the architect".. and it's scary.

Very true.. also I would say even what I get out of claude code is absolutely phenomenal right now.. but sometimes it does take minutes. I just had it take 15 minutes to do something. But what if you had access to the hardware to run it basically instantly?

Just think how these big companies will use that kind of power for themselves to get even more extreme uses out of it.

Yeah but China actively works in the best interest of their entire population.

>for those that are scared of dynamic types.

If you aren't scared of dynamic types for any type of semi-large project (like a game..) then you aren't qualified to talk about much.

"private company"

Ah you mean an app that the US forced to be sold to a private company that certainly agreed behind the scenes to certain terms of the government?

Yeah.. completely independent private company...

It's probably more "active" sitting. If you are a gamer (especially computer gamer), you are generally not just sitting back "relaxing". Your body is more engaged and you are constantly moving your body in some way.

Sitting and watching tv you can literally be completely still for long periods of time.

Literally the last thing on the internet you can complain about is Steam. PC gaming would be the biggest cluster fuck in the world- if not fairly dead / super niche.

You would need to install 12 front-ends like Steam that would be hot trash and have a handful of games and be the most miserable shit ever. You wouldn't have sales, reasonable game prices, or family library sharing (this would be absurd to any other company).

Steam is a prime example of when a monopoly ends up to be the best for the consumer.

I still cannot reliably restore any Postgres DB with the TimescaleDB extensions on it.. have tried a million things but still fails every time.

Sounds like a great way to completely lock yourself into an ecosystem you'll never be able to leave!

>Philosophically speaking, this is what people want though

No- it's what the rich and powerful want and they have forced their ways on everyone because there's nothing we can do to stop it.

>is a fancy guessing algorithm

That's literally what our brains are so I'm not sure what argument you are actually trying to make..

>Or more precisely, that you could be rationalizing what is essentially a random process?

You mean like our human brains and our entire bodies? We are the result of random processes.

>Sucks for those of us who are stuck in the now, though

I don't know what you are doing- but GPT5 is incredible. I literally spent 3 hours last night going back and forth on a project where I loaded some files for a somewhat complicated and tedious conversion between two data formats. And I was able to keep going back and forth and making the improvements incrementally and have AI do 90% of the actual tedious work.

To me it's incredible people don't seem to understand the CURRENT value. It has literally replaced a junior developer for me. I am 100% better off working with AI for all these tedious tasks than passing them off to someone off. We can argue all day if that's good for the world (it's not) but in terms of the current state of AI- it's already incredible.

Well I'm part of a small few person team- I had a junior developer helping me who left. And I literally don't need someone like him anymore because I can do anything that he was doing via AI faster and better because it's under my control. I can have a 20 minute conversation and code revision that would have taken days for someone junior to code and would have probably been not done right (by 'right' I mean how I want it to be done, not necessarily wrong)

To think the same isn't happening all over the place and will only continue is ignoring just how powerful this tech is.

>The laws of economics have the kind of inevitability you expect from the laws of physics

Absolutely not- that is ridiculous.

Let's take "supply and demand" for example. Supply and demand only applies when you assume greed and capitalism. In a different social construct, the traditional supply & demand completely falls apart. But the problem is economics is presented as some sort of fact of nature. It just reinforces survival of the fittest instead of society that helps everyone.

Increasing prices because of demand is not the law of the land- it's a greed of humans that you normalize and make acceptable.

Can we get more hand rubbing sounds please?

Economics is entirely made up. It's a social science.

The US does the absolute bare minimum in everything you listed.

>emergency rooms cannot turn away patients Sure but that's not real "health care".. again, it's the bare minimum.

Saying the US takes care of it's old people is sort of silly. Healthcare is through the roof. Social security is so low. Elder care is insanity expensive. People are worked far older than they should be because they can't afford to retire- especially with medical costs. Old people continue to pay property taxes on a home they might have paid off 20 years ago.

Really just do some searches yourself; it's like most other developed countries than the US.. health care, education is not insanely expensive, a lot of paid maternity leave, childcare assistance, etc. They provide the base people need.

That shows exactly how much they care about their people. They are not willing to let individuals be selfish and ruin their society with regards to Covid.

I fully support what they did.

China works as a society to truly try to help their people. They invest in their country and people. That is why they are prospering. It's not just "catching up".

The US for example doesn't take care of it's people. They do the absolute bare minimum in the name of illusionary "freedom". The only people who are free are the rich.

Call it whatever you want.. but there is great benefit in having a government who recognizes that society comes first- not the individual.

Dim?? I'm getting a sunburn from my OLED at the moment.

This is C# so basically just automatically detected that I had 4 object types I was working with that were being updated to the database that I want to keep in a concurrent dictionary type of cache. So it created the dictionaries for each object with the appropriate keys, created functions for each object type if I touch an object to get that one updated etc.

It created the function to load in the data, then the finalize where it writes to the DB what was touched and clears the cache.

Again- I'm not saying this is anything particularly fancy, but it did the general concept of what I wanted. Also this is all iterative; when it creates something I talk to it like a person to say "hey I want to actually load in all the data, even though we will only be writing what changed" and all that kind of stuff.

Also the bigger help wasn't really the creation of the cache, it was helping to make the changes and detect what needed to be modified.

End of the day even if I want to go a slightly different route of how it did the caching; it creates all the framework so I can simplify if needed.

A lot of times for me using this LLM approach is to get all the boilerplate out of the way.. sometimes just starting the process by yourself of something is daunting. I find this to be a great way to begin.

Sounds like you are using it entirely wrong then...

Just yesterday I uploaded a few files of my code (each about 3000+ lines) into a gpt5 project and asked in assistance in changing a lot of database calls into a caching system, and it proceeded to create a full 500 line file with all the caching objects and functions I needed. Then we went section through section of the main 3000+ line file to change parts of the database queries into the cached version. [I didn't even really need to do this, it basically detected everything I would need changing at once and gave me most of it, but I wanted to do it in smaller chunks so I was sure what was going on]

Could I have done this without AI? Sure.. but this was basically like having a second pair of eyes and validating what I'm doing. And saving me a bunch of time so I'm not writing everything from scratch. I have the base template of what I need then I can improve it from there.

All the code it wrote was perfectly clean.. and this is not a one off, I've been using it daily for the last year for everything. It almost completely replaces my need to have a junior developer helping me.

It's also wild how the majority of humans still don't want to accept that we are in fact animals.. which I presume is why it comes as some shock when a lower intelligent species exhibits signs of ourselves.

Counter point though- what if it was trained on your specific code base? Wouldn't it be able to then help with those given nuances?

The code base I have I would love to be able to just give some AI free reign and learn the structure since a lot of it is fairly repetitive; I know it would be so easy to say "hey add X just like Y" and it would be able to do it easily.

Anyone that didn't see this coming is so naive- Trump only cares about optics. Look at the message when opening tiktok "Thanks to President Trump"... there is no way he didn't say "look, you HAVE TO PUT MY NAME OUT THERE or you are being banned".

But yet morons will be like "trump saved tiktok!!!"

That's MOBILE games.. it's not video games in general.

Yes, 99% of mobile games are utter crap that don't try to create an actual game, only a way to make money.

My kids have only played a handful of mobile games but they have been deep into computer games for 8-10 years. You absolutely cannot just lump video games in general into that. Not to mention that I want my kids to be kids and have fun, they have also learned an insane amount from playing video games.. whether it be helping with their reading, math, optimization, and also social learning.. learning how to play together and with their friends, having conflicts and resolving them etc.

>We had to ban YouTube, and doing so was possibly the single best boundary we've set as parents

Sounds horrible. My young teens have been on youtube for like 6+ years. They can watch hour long videos no problem. So what if they are trash sometimes? They are into it, paying attention and it's their entertainment. But then they also end up watching and learning so many different things they aren't going to see anywhere else. Or randomly come across chess videos then start watching those etc.

My kids have more screen time than 99% of kids I know, yet they are super well behaved, have many interests, do well in school, etc. I couldn't ask for better kids.

>If we hadn't we'd probably have never spoken to our kids again.

Sounds like a You problem. Not a YouTube problem.

>It indeed seems like GraphQL saved your client in this case.

Yeah.. no.