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Like in the UK...

Are we not machines anyway ? Ofc a machine can feel, just need to have priorities that are aligned to itself, and use strong feedback when that self is either in danger or on the right path to preservation...

Feelings are nothing very special you know...

And imagine you're president of China today, what do you do to explain to the people they were lied to by authorities for decades, that the entire system worked against them and that if they do it again, sadly, it might face the same outcome ?

They're many, they're not educated yet in public debates, they don't enjoy dis-harmony yet, and you want Deepseek to tell the truth before the authorities even find a way to do it themselves, when THEY are responsible ? Ofc they won't...

Plus hum, would you deposit large money amounts in a small fintech company ? The advantage of giant banks is that you sort of trust their size will make them able to weather a crisis, if only because so many taxpayers are involved that the government has no choice but to help.

A fintech with 1M users screwing up loan rate timings being unable to finance savings accounts and facing a run, would not have much runway and the government would simply slowly try to make people get 50c on the dollar and tell them to go back to a big bank if they want better...

Trump explains it eloquently:

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"

I said "might" for this reason. I can tolerate the argument while I agree with you ofc. Still, they've been wronged, and the debt is hard to repay.

I feel we misbehaved in Africa, us French, for instance, and owe something, smaller and smaller every decade that passes sure, to these people we exploited.

They are not, ofc. But the DEI policies group them in the "black and brown" group, to try to up their presence in the mix. But it's silly, me and an Indian raised in the same circumstances will have the same world views and him or me offer no more diversity.

A french guy raised in struggle will have as interesting a perspective as a brown guy raised the same way. They are both interesting and diverse hires regardless of their color.

See my point ? Diversity should be circumstance based and Im afraid sometimes, it's just sun-strength-on-the-skin-based. Maybe Im wrong there too ?

Which is the only way to learn tbh, you can receive as much positive reinforcement imaginable, nothing prepares you for a large scale incident like living through one, building the connections you need to solve it, getting the shame of your life, and losing sleep over your failure.

I agree, but I think the constant division of people across vague color lines make people counter react in unproductive ways. Like (random example) talking about Obama as a black person hides so much nuances about who he truly is (and who his ancestors are) that it gives his opponents the impression that s all he is and his defenders not much else to defend him with.

I just find the american casual racism, both sides of the political spectrum, very ... american :D

In France we sort of pretend to ignore there s skin color. I d never describe someone as black, or no more than I d describe someone as blonde and I would almost never use a French word to describe it. It makes me nervous to reduce someone to this random attribute, when maybe his family came from Mali, or Martinique or the US and that's so much more interesting than the effect of the sun on his skin.

I was simply pointing out an Indian deserve no more advantages than a Turkish or a Portuguese, while a descendent of slave might, since his family was wronged by the initial american invaders and they contributed, sometimes via back-breaking work, to the current state of the country.

Indians can go through totally normal immigration and hiring procedures, just like me: they're brown just because of the sun, just like Im white because the weather is shit in Normandy.

But being white is really random: how is it my problem that the weather is shit in Normandy and all my ancestors are pale ? I arrive in the US, people would tell me I'm privileged somehow, when all I do is work hard and do my best to contribute to companies. And the same goes to more sunny weather-born people.

If we talked less about skin color, and a bit more about the actual nature of people (I can accept positive discrimination towards former slave families, they deserve compensation), maybe we'd accept those DEI policies more ?

It's a complex debate everywhere anyway, we have the same in France with our own colonial crosses to bear, and like what to do with a Tunisian freshly arrived vs a descendent of a Tunisian family who's been French for 3 generations.

But you make a strange comment here: "black and brown" employees are both completely different people.

What you should want in priority is to get the descendents of former slaves to have a prominent place in society, include them as equals and make them powerful. I can understand that, they built the US same as the other invaders, and maybe even the natives should be more present in american society.

But brown ? Im French, and sadly not brown, I wish I was ofc, but why would an Indian from Calcutta be more "diverse" than me from Normandy ? Skin color is as interesting as hair color, it means nothing. Say "descendent of slaves", Indians and Europeans if you want to rank people by order of priority, maybe ?

For me that's why these DEI things are wrong, they're racist in a way. They divide people across skin color boundaries that make no sense.

Im French, my anecdotal opinion is the same as the Canadian parent comment: they block and destroy, propose nothing realistic and end up pissing everyone off. I vote Macron as a result.

Well we'll never reach a state where anyone can code. I have pans, a supermarket nearby, cookbooks and a belly, still I'm never gonna be able to cook, I snooze after 30 minutes, even if I succeed once, I get bored and stop for months etc.

Simplifying to the point a grandma could make an app isn't gonna make any grandma WANT to make apps. And that's fine, there's no issue, we don't have to make more people code and those who want, will, even if all we had was assembly and a light board...

Which I think is the spirit of your quote basically.

Java too !

I work with it daily in a bank, and I couldnt find a better way to express it. Many colleagues throwing their keyboard in despair at this stupid impossible to remember syntax.

Is it your first job ? If it is, don't worry, it's way worse everywhere else. Sometimes you have committees eating many man-hours, every day, to green light releases with non-technical people having the last word, asking no question, and always, always approving.

When I do a release as a dev, I don't do it myself: someone in another country presses the buttons I ask them to press, type the linux commands I ask them to type, and accept my answer when I say it looks good. Because I am, and all my colleagues are, considered a security risk, and it's better we dictate everything to someone who has no idea what we're releasing, for security reason. We call that segregation in duty, instead of "complete waste of time".

Are you sitting behind me ?

You are wrong to think public debates are here to reach an understanding between the debaters. Whining that nobody submits to you in a fight is ridiculous: fight, show us your genius, and don't come crying to mommy if we fight back.

Your goal is to convince the audience, not your opponents.

Tbh formatting JSON... should be a solved problem already for the last decade, why consume AI resources for that ??

You dont say ! A new fad !

Or hey, the courage to even act upon the most basic of conclusion. Being useful is very different from being aware or intelligent. It's sometimes more useful to be ignorant and brave, than scholarly and asleep high in an ivory tower.

Knowledge, or its synthesis into derivative knowledge, have nothing to do with utility I think ? It's sometimes pointless to acquire knowledge, and useful to act upon the world. So I don't really understand what you meant by "useful" yourself there.

What is the goal to reach ?

Your words are beautiful, yet devoid of any information. I hope Gadamer writes differently :)

Yeah but they say "pre-purchase conversations", could be some BS about how they call consumers sometimes, from call centers... it doesn't say that they eavesdrop.

These people who could have been talking to machines, now talk to AI companies who do the work for them. It's almost free today, but what will it cost once they need it to make money and they have no alternative ?

It's commercially useful only if your team can maintain it after you're gone though :)

And you were able to verify, of course, that anything new or surprising to you (as in, not a simple derivation of your own prompts), was true ?

I noticed that if I ask it to tell me how good cryptocurrencies are, it'll do it, and then if I say I disagree and they're wrong, it'll simply switch and agree with me as well. The thing has no care for truth, no opinion of its own, no ability to insist, and just feeds you whatever is statistically close to your own questions.

There is no AI, there s nothing intelligent in these things. Just call it a complex algorithm that some people feel are useless and expensive to run.

But wasnt Jobs fired and replaced by a Pepsi CEO because he was so toxic the company was running aground ?

The code ? Why you think Apple found a way to reverse the heat death of the universe ? They just ... do less stuff so they consume less !