IdiocyInAction

Because the computer in this case is relying on a vast repository of human knowledge encoded in these languages to go from 1 to 3. Machine code was probably not in the training set.

Would be interesting if you could train a GPT-N model to be a compiler somehow.

I guess it's to make people quit and get out of paying severance?

It's actually anti-non-NAFTA, as can be seen in the inflation reduction act.

Did you read the article? Tech progress in the areas the article talked about slowed down like 70 years ago.

On the other hand more people are retired and in schooling than ever. Someone also has to produce the surplus for those people.

A lot of nasty ideologues that caused massive suffering also believed that

I'd wager that if you would put it to a referendum, the vast majority would prefer access to Meta's services for free to GDPR in Europe. Max Schrems isn't helping anyone.

Both China and Russia eschewed US tech and they have much, much healthier tech industries than Europe.

The US also doesn't really believe in foreign competition ("Buy American", recent huge industrial subsidies as part of the IRA), so I don't really know if Europe should kowtow to the US here. If the US gave up on the CLOUD act none of this would be a problem anyway.

I trust the app to be a more reliable intermediary between me and the restaurant rather than ordering directly. I trust that the app is more technically sound (I've had problems ordering from 'bespoke' apps and websites) and won't forget my order or route it to different city/country or something (things that have happened). Some apps offer tracking of the courier (can be nice to have) and give features that 'bespoke' options don't have.

Also, you get reviews and discoverability of options. I can go to a different city and see all the delivery options immediately.

Unlike a lot of people here, I've had great experiences with food delivery apps. Not doordash (not a thing where I live), but others. I knew people working as delivery bikers and they said it can be a decent way to earn a living while you're studying. The flexible nature of the work lends itself well to that.

A country no EU nations had any defense obligations to.

Germany and the rest of the western EU nations could decide to stop arming Ukraine and stop doing sanctions against Russia.

> substantially below median intelligence and work ethic to make a very nice living with little more than token effort as is the case in software

I disagree that you can make a nice living room with "substantially below median intelligence" in software. Getting into FAANG+ is hard and plenty of people never even finish their degree or get a related job.

I think you have no idea what people with "substantially below median intelligence" are like.

> Computation is not consciousness. Memory is not intelligence.

Yeah I stopped reading after that bit. I try to follow the new developments in ML somewhat closely and there are some genuinely unprecedented things in there.

It's not just less pollution though. It's less people that might fulfill valuable societal roles that scale with the number of people and in many developed countries less people to look after/produce value for those in old age, which will lead to all sorts of unpleasantness.

Also, non-modern farm practices are also not ideal and I think if we were forced to switch to traditional agriculture we would still have a large adverse effect on ecosystems.

I don't think that something like CoPilot is what most GH users had in mind when they published their code. Also, licenses exist (which CP demonstrably doesn't give a shit about).

Quant finance might be indistinguishable, but that‘s still a small portion of finance. Traditional finance is still way more people-oriented.

Well, not everyone agrees with the conclusions made by the article. For example, here it is argued that the graph used by the article is suspect:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...

> This wasn’t a matter of productivity, either: workers were more productive every year, we just stopped being rewarded for it.

In particular, this point is being disputed.

Besides, I object to the use of the word "worker" here; some workers are surely more productive, but I can think of many classes of work that are fundamentally the same as they have been in the 70s; indeed, this kind of thing has been talked about under the heading of "cost disease" already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

Note that the article still points out inequality as a problem.

Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Dune by Frank Herbert

Permutation City by Greg Egan

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Story of your Life and Others and Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Chiang in particular is an excellent writer who explores interesting concepts using speculative fiction. A lot of his stories stuck with me, like the one about lookism. Egan also writes excellent stories with very well thought-out and consistent worlds, though the character writing and plotlines is not that strong.

I think it's meant to be a quip about Ruby on Rails.

Biden said to "buy American" and still has tariffs on the EU, so I am not sure who should retaliate.

Language barriers, legal differences between countries, etc. Also less availability of capital in general.

The US started this already by imposing tariffs on European goods like steel.

Well, there is also the fact that there are fewer really good tech jobs in Europe that would hire those maintainers. (I am European).

I don't think it is necessarily about being "smart" - a story like this simply confirms many biases people have about big, "evil" corporations and even very smart people are prone to confirmation biases.

Mind you, I am most certainly sure that Big Tech has tons of shady shit going on, as would any industry of that size, but a politically charged lawsuit championed by a competing industry is not what I would use as proof.

You do realize what the destruction of the economy would entail? That it would mean that many people would lose their livelihood and suffer?

Note that it's 68% who have some kind of job and 50% who have full time employment.

Well, I think, considering that German is pretty much a must in Germany and that it must be an incredibly hard language to learn for people from Syria, it seems like a relative success.

Of course, 32% being unemployed is still very high, but that may be expected under the circumstances.

The first few chapters of many books about ML will go over these, like Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop.

I don't think GDPR has failed. In fact, there have bern multiple times where I have been happy that it exists, since I knew that companies were limited in their ability to save data about me.

> European stock markets have been essentially flat since 2009 while American stock markets have 3X’d.

The DAX30 (German Index) tripled since 2009. The British and French indices did pretty much move sideways though.

The growth of the S&P 500 is pretty amazing though.

Every time I try and use this I have to look up the syntax. It does deliver stunning graphics when used right though.