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I'm sorry to hear that it makes you sad. Maybe it's not empowering for many programmers, but stuff like GPT has inspired many non-programmers to learn programming just to use it. Which is pretty empowering.

It's for researchers, probably.

Cognitive behavioral therapy works for me.

Have y'all noticed that the same people who insist on paper straws also want us to use compostable plastic utensils? Like come on, pick a lane!

The cult-like devotion to Cathie Wood just blows my mind. Reminds me of Elon diehards, the kinds who think he makes no errors and any ostensible mistake is 4D chess or a clever troll to stick it to the haters. I wonder if these phenomena are related somehow.

Don't downplay the value of watching agents talk to each other for amusement. I got a lot of mileage out of that and will continue to do so.

We've come a long way since fighting oil, metal, sugar and meat monopolies and cartels. Now we're worried about Walmart buying TV brands. Really puts the past century into perspective for me.

Walmart buying cheap crappy TV brand is antitrust in a world that has many cheap crappy TV brands? At least the Microsoft and IE thing made some sense, it's not like we're hurting for choice here.

My waifu is the word suggestion Markov chain on my phone. Conversation has gotten dry, but we make it work.

Be safe, everyone! There is a flash-epidemic every year in the US around this time that has us scratching our heads. Thankfully almost everyone survives it with no long-term effects, with hangover-like symptoms being the most severe of the common symptoms. Hopefully we can find the cause of this one day.

Wow, someone got paid to make that.

I feel bad for the illustrators of three-armed, seventeen-fingered mutants, document summarizers, and fact-hallucinating management consultants who've been replaced by AI this year.

We can learn a thing or two from these magnificent creatures.

Thanks, haven't used GCE in nearly a decade, might give it another shot.

A vassal state?

I mean, you have good heuristics, rereading what I wrote.

Hi, sorry I've got an effect on some folks. I'm not a climate change denier, and that climate change is real and that we've caused it are things I consider uncontroversial. I've not seen people like that in this thread nor on HN. They were likely flagged in this thread before I've seen it, and I can't see them.

I had the skeptics of imminent climate catastrophes in mind, or in general, folks who don't straight up deny climate change but still question some of the literature. It bothers me that these are lumped in with fringe deniers, and what's with the "deluded optimism" jab anyway? I don't agree with them either but cmon, that I'm sure have rubbed some the wrong way.

Understanding something often means asking basic questions. This forum has many folks who value questioning like a skeptic, something like a Socratic dialog. Kind of unfair to call people deluded just because you and many others have reached a conclusion long ago.

Hard to attribute that to defamation. Not saying there's no causal link, but funding can be fickle and this could happen if climate change science ever becomes unsexy or saturated.

Nice title!

Building a wall of that scale overnight would be quite a feat, almost as impressive as successfully getting people to start using paper straws.

Thanks, I needed that.

Using drugs as such isn't a crime, you're hurting nobody but yourself. An addict may steal to feed their habit, but it's their theft that's the crime, not having shot up that morning. It's clear that the act of taking drugs, however hard, is victimless.

The enforcement of laws against victimless crimes attracts bullies to the police force, and that's a huge problem. As bad, if not worse, than the damage done by petty thieves feeding their habit. Because now we have a culture where the drugs are a crime worth breaking into strangers' homes, guns a-blazin', to punish and prosecute. And it's hard to convince the public and the lawmakers to reverse course when the common argument is that people should be able to do drugs if they want to, or that maybe some are ok because they aren't as hard, etc.

I do, after reading that

However, the lift is done to compensate for something else.

Article from 2025: Is AGI the next Metaverse?

Nah, layoffs are good. Less wasted capital.

There are plenty of <$50k programmers making 6 figures, so I'm not sure that's it.

The root of that issue is that they can't work. Not legally. For all the complaints anti-immigration people make about immigrants not working, they seem to do everything they can to make it impossible to work here legally, regardless of whether you came here by foot or boat or a sponsorship.

Protectionist policies breed stagnation. Being wholesale anti-immigration in the name of protecting "our jobs" is a cover-up for preferring the comfort of not having to compete with the more skilled, more wanting, and more willing and ambitious.

I really hope more people can use this loophole as much as possible. The lack of immigrants is lowering the standards of this country, so perhaps if the trend continues, this will no longer be a loophole but a by-the-book exhibition of extraordinary ability.