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Why was this headline changed in such an editorializing way? “Mixed society” is a loaded term not present in the original headline.

Regardless of what’s “natural”, widespread contamination from industry should reduce or remove the limits to industry’s liability. Externalities are real & must be accounted for.

I agree with your concerns.

To me, it seems like AI boosters subscribe to the ideology of Infinite Growth Forever & all their claims of “AI creating new types of employment that will provide for displaced workers” rest on that hollow rhetoric of prosperity gospel.

Their optimism on behalf of the to-be-displaced is mere PR & not stopping them from privately wishing that the proles, who are Not Gonna Make It, Have Fun Staying Poor.

> The patience and understanding of an LLM cannot be beaten.

Embarrassing. Hope somebody hugs you today.

> AGI would give you access to millions of times more resources than you currently enjoy. So I would suggest that you have absolutely nothing to worry about on the income/employment front.

Pure theology

I love to live within smelling distance of the urban slaughterhouse. I love not knowing what chemicals may be wafting out of tanks buried, forgotten beneath my brownfield luxury condo.

Curating training data is an exercise in editorial judgement.

Why is this relevant to the performance of a computer program? It makes sense to me that computer programs & humans should continue to be judged by different standards.

Every gas station in my area offers a lower cash price.

What does disingenuous mean

Have you checked out any of the minikanren logic programming environments people have implemented in scheme?

The Reasoned Schemer is an accessible introduction to that space if you’re not put off by the socratic-themed dialogue.

& the Barliman demo is still pretty exciting even after LLM codegen.

https://youtu.be/er_lLvkklsk

Wow, that’s insightful. I bet nobody’s ever examined contemporary capitalism thru the lens of the cellphone before!

Need someone to write something anthropological about crypto/ai/eacc utopian futurism & our society’s historic levels of stimulant/dissociative use.

I consider this an over-correction that serves to benefit the status quo. I’m interested to hear why you think otherwise.

Here’s my pithy slogan advocating this -

If your safety systems fail, we pierce the corporate veil.

This tedious, snarky response is neither clever nor insightful.

Like, we get it - you resent your coworkers & consider them beneath you.

Hopefully, your unique, elite output keeps you employable for a few quarters longer than them.

“This account of misery likely conceals the reasons that the author, in my estimation, would deserve their suffering.”

I wonder if that Tesla that exploded at the Canadian border in NY prompted threats of regulatory action.

Sounds like a good reason to promote the merits of your own project, instead of the tools you use.

LLM codegen should herald the death of the MVP. It’s time to solve problems well.

> It doesn't matter what the cook thinks.

This is the fantasy of GenAI boosters stated concisely - that these statistical methods present a new objectivity that avoids the shortcomings of human subjectivity. Of course, these web-scraped models are distilled subjectivity in aggregate, subjectivity at scale. ChatGPT is made of people!

> that labour can be reallocated further up the value chain

Not in America - upskilling workers is too expensive.

Displaced workers are gonna break rocks in debtor’s prisons & the median voter already thinks they deserve it.

AI will bring mass downward mobility.

It’s poor taste to expect every passing reference to be scoped to your specific minimum of background knowledge.

> I was able to curate only 172 rows of data

Skill issue - focus more on data integrity & less on HN clout

“Grok” is more about in-group signaling like “LaTex credibility” or publishing blog posts on arxiv.

Incarceration is dangerous

> why didn’t those idiots use this unverifiable data I disapprove of?

People in your personal life deserve the assumption of positive intent.

Corporations, corporate communications, public figures, etc. are not deserving of the assumption of positive intent.

Which calculations? What data? What biases? What goals?

You can just say “Worse Is Better”.

> …what really advances our use of tools - and what holds us back.

It’s money! It’s cost! The cheaper tool wins.

“Worse Is Better”