I honestly think, it’s very cool for prototyping ideas at this point. It’s also parasitic. Although I think because of (maybe) different reasons: It gives people the power (which they unfortunately use way too much) to imitate an art, but in an non-arty imperfect way that doesn’t comprehend details (of the art), resulting in slop. For software that can go very wrong as we see here. This is also a reason why I mostly quit open-source, because now everyone can code a bad version of a library, it sucked the art out of good open source etc. and it’s increasingly difficult because of good wording/“look” etc. to differentiate on quality of code, previously you could often check a code-base review it somewhat and know how good the quality is, now it’s more like “is this slop or not?” (in which case I go a big circle around it, because reviewing is often not worth it)

At some point though, I think this automation of work is inevitable, we need to think about a society that can peacefully exist without having the requirement to work to exist. I actually think this could easily be utopian, everyone can focus on what they actually think is fulfilling life.

Though, it’s sad and concerning that technology is developing faster than society can adapt, which is why I’m mostly with you, because people (or representatives like politicians) just aren’t “programmed” for these fast-paced changes, to adapt the technology such that the future may be more utopian as it currently is heading towards a dystopian future…

I only trust math with my data (i.e. encryption…)

Yeah true, I actually also have thought about trying muscaria, but I’m fearing a little bit the anticholinergics group of drugs… (among others because of potential to increase risk for dementia etc.)

Not only that mushroom, the death cap as the name suggests has similar effects (same toxin), but is actually the most deadly mushroom. But yeah Amanita are the most deadly/toxic species of mushrooms.

Munich with their new major also had a win in this direction just now. I do think that local policies likely are more important anyway for at least traffic policies.

Don’t wanna be that guy, but: You misspelled Microslop.

US is liked

Brave assumption, there might be some people outside the US who like them, but I guess that’s true for all countries. I for my part started hating the US, it’s such a bad development for humanity, since capitalism/oligarchy takes over. Even China starts to look good in comparison…

Also:

world stability for a huge portion of the globe

Just LOL. Probably the force that causes the biggest global instability. Do I have to mention Iran as most recent event?

There might’ve been a period where that might’ve been true, but it certainly isn’t anymore.

You will always be better at decisions than an n-dimensional matrix of numbers on an overpriced GPU.

I’d be careful about these claims. Maybe with our current iteration of “attention-based” LLMs, yes. But keep in mind that our way of processing information is strongly limited compared to how much data is fed to these LLMs while training, so they in theory have a lot more foundation to be able to reason about new problems.

We’re vastly more capable at the moment at interpreting our limited view on foreign code, being actually creative, find new ways to reason, yes. Capable developers (open source…) often have seen quite a bit more code than the average developer and are highly skilled, still with just a tiny subset of the code that an LLM has seen.

But say these models improve in creativity and “higher-level of thought” through whatever means (e.g. through more reinforcement learning). Well, let’s just say I’m careful with these claims. These LLMs are already quite a help with stupid boilerplaty code (less so with novel stuff, and writing idiomatic non-redundant code, but compared to 2-3 years ago it’s quite a step already, to the point that they’re actually helpful, disregarding all the hype and obvious marketing strategies of these AI-companies)

the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

So basically how it always was?

There’s a reason why there are billionaires…

But yeah it’s likely getting worse, like an elite and otherwise brain-dead propaganda following society (to exaggerate a little bit…). Initially after reading Adorno years ago, I never thought that the rather negative way he wrote, and something like the third Reich will not happen again, yet here we are repeating mistakes, fueled by accelerating climate-change (and the resulting conflicts)…

We are leaving (or rather have left) the most peaceful era of humanity, back to smashing each others heads without a real reason, leaving a more positive holistic utopian future… Sad.

Future workforce is fucking cooked.

Yep, and I predict that programmers actually understanding code (and especially being able to quickly and thoroughly review code), are becoming increasingly valuable (again?) in the future, when someone really has to guarantee what the AI actually generated (and let me tell you there are still so many stupid things the AI does…).

Nah please, we need younger actually representatives of the population, not ancient people (as much as I like Sanders). There’s various young progressive candidates that are suitable when the Dems allow them…

Which I think is almost worse… think about concentration/extermination camps (which I think our animal industry is basically)

And it’s perfectly healthy to be vegan (maybe even more healthy at this point when done right, than meat consumption).

My main reason though for that is less moral than just wanting to be less wasteful, i.e. meat is just inefficient. I predict that we at some point will move past meat consumption, it’s just not necessary, even when considering taste…

I’m not even sure about plants not having something similar as a nervous system. They live on different timescale, but it’s impressive what e.g. Trees in forests are capable of (with a little help of funghi)

Ok, I like that attitude, but could you go into more detail? AFAIK hardware wise the samsung will likely be better in every way I think?

Helix:

Anyone told you bout NixOS? It’s off-charts, but the secret true final destination…

Don’t forget that the Internet is currently ruined by AI-slop that is continuously flooding once interesting human-created content. This is probably my biggest gripe of AI. I’ve significantly reduced my screen-time, basically stopped coding in my free-time because of this sloppy mess that we call Internet right now…

reasonably well

hmm not in my experience, if you don’t care about code-quality you can quickly prototype slop, and see if it generally works, but maintainable code? I always fall back to manual coding, and often my code is like 30% of the length of what AI generates, more readable, efficient etc.

If you constrain it a lot, it might work reasonably, but then I often think, that instead of writing a multi-paragraph prompt, just writing the code might’ve been more effective (long-term that is).

plan it correctly and the actual implementation of the correct plan will take no time at all.

That’s why I don’t think AI really helps that much, because you still have to think and understand (at least if you value your product/code), and that’s what takes the most time, not typing etc.

it‘s just different.

Yeah it makes you dumber, because you’re tempted to not think into the problem, and reviewing code is less effective in understanding what is going on within code (IME, although I think especially nowadays it’s a valuable skill to be able to review quickly and effectively).

Unfortunately it’s a general theme in Open Source. I lost almost all motivation for programming in my free-time because of all these AI-slop(-PRs). It’s kinda sad, how that Art (among others) is flooded with slop…

No it’s not entirely clearly defined. But a few elements appear in all of them: Anti- communism/socialism, dictator, far-right idiologies, nationalism…

I wouldn’t say any if these are desired by leftism, or rather opposites.