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> but it's not clear

What better way to find out than to just try it and see if we end up with runaway warming? That surely can't cause any harm.

Yes, realizing the fact that most jobs have low standards, and adapting to LLMs being good enough for these low standards is certainly a friction point. Giving up caring is hard.

The advantage of computers was that they didn't make human errors; they did things repeatedly, quickly, and predictably. If I'm going to accept human error, I'd like it to come from a human.

Meh. That's fine if you really don't want to build things, and are mainly concerned about increasing your market value.

If you like creating, buying software from Anthropic is boring as hell.

I'd pay more for deterministic, explainable, and fast software without agents. The value of computers is that they do tasks repeatably, reliably, and at blinding speed.

This stuff is negative value.

Are you claiming that software is unaffordable? I get the sense that it was so cheap people were unhappy with how much was shoved into places where it was unwanted.

Where's the fun in purchasing an app from Anthropic?

We keep setting houses on fire so that we can roast marshmallows, and wonder why the people living in those houses are unhappy.

As we do this, we promise that if we set enough houses on fire, we'll build hell. And imagine how rich we'll be if we sell fuel to keep the hell we built running.

And what do we gain by leaving things on the table?

What art have you produced? I did a little googling, and I can't find anything of note in public.

> I really don't like the conflation of all meta staff with the strategy of the massive multinational corpo-monster that is meta itself.

We can separate it out. The things at Meta that had no staff working on them can be blamed on the corporation, and the rest can be blamed on the people working to enable it.

Sounds dystopian. If I was tasked with designing hell for musicians, I would be inspired.

Can you explain why that makes it ok to cover up accidents and lie about the recordings of the event being corrupted?

The majority of examples in the document you linked describe 'person without<skill> can do thing needing <skill>'. It's very much selling 'more output, less skill'

I suggest you read the sales pitches that these products have been making. Again, when I say that this is the selling point, I mean it: This is why management is buying them.

Yes, you certainly can argue that, but you'd be wrong. The primary selling point of LLMs is that they solve the problem of needing skill to get things done.

Yes, and plan 9 solved this; you open /dev/draw and start drawing.

Graphics. They're network transparent, and take over the terminal.

Terminal apps were obsolete once we had invented the pixel. Unix just provides no good way to write one that can be used remotely.

By that token, Rust is also memory unsafe: array bounds checks and stack overflow are runtime checks.

It's very clear to me that many people have achieved peak civilization -- no evidence of thought remains.

Some people like roasting marshmallows. Others think that setting the house on fire may have downsides.

It's micromanaging an idiot savant. Except the fun part of management, the reward for a job well done, is seeing the personal growth of the managee.

In this case, there's no person to grow. It's an overly talkative calculator.

I never expected to see this number of engineers aspiring to emulate Dilbert's pointy haired boss.

> LFS/BLFS. Which BSD has that?

That comes with the system. Here's the manpage: https://man.openbsd.org/release

The history stack shouldn't be controlled by any loaded sites. The browser needs to treat websites as hostile.

I ssh in multiple times. If I really needed to, I suppose I could use vnc.

Thanks. Dtach is definitely closer to what I want than tmux, I'll be trying it out this week.

Once I discovered window managers and graphics, I stopped using half-baked features to emulate them in the terminal.

I use tmux to reattach to programs after the network connection dies, and not really anything else. I would welcome a version of it that stripped out everything but that, and just replayed the last few pages of scrollback on reattach.

We're racing to build hell.

If the promises of AGI pan out, there will be nothing a human will be able to do better than an AI. If humans can't contribute economically, what else could things look like?

It's slop.