Julesman

For anyone who wants a bit of entirely factual context COMPLETELY absent from mainstream reporting.

US Military to Use High-Altitude Balloons Against China, Russia: Report

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/06/us-military-balloo...

My comment to this effect was flagged and deleted. Maybe because I used the popular term for these folks, which is not an epithet as we don't take cults seriously in this society. Or maybe my comment was deleted because I refereed to our culture as a racist empire? Not sure. Anyway, I hope people don't work for the NSA. I hope that opinion is allowed here.

Because being wealthy is definitely the most important thing.

Well said. Exactly. So much hyperbole! So much click bait. It makes me dizzy.

I'm a front-end dev. I use it every day. I have CoPilot too. These things help me do my job. No question. They also help me learn better than just about any other tool.

The big one for me is that they have made me more confident taking on bigger tasks. The impact is not trivial at all.

I grew up in Santa Monica and live here now. Except for getting around the height restriction, this really is good news. Here's one big reason why.

Maybe half the houses and apartments in the city were built to last 30 years. They are literal tear-downs and should be replaced. It's that simple. There are lots of valid points to debate here but crap houses made of rotting sticks just need to go.

That's not where the burden of proof lies, of course. We don't have to prove that. I know that's probably some kind of intended humor or levity or irony or something. But it's important, none the less, to point out that the burden of proof in this discussion lies squarely on anyone arguing otherwise.

Here's the truly ironic point. By the numbers FAR more people argue against it, largely for clickbait and views, than advance the notion. And what does that mean? It means that "flat earth" IS the argument against it, if you get my drift. If everyone just stopped talking about it, no one would care at all. In fact it's all the people arguing with it that make it a thing.

Let's just stop.

But cool article. No dig on the author. Just something to think about.

I haven't found GPT this reliable for coding. I've been maxing my hourly usage of ChatGPT since it launched and then switching to CoPilot and I have lots of good things to say about it. But reliability is not one of them.

It has a tendency to ignore instructions, as mentioned, but also to get hung up on certain approaches or to use a different approach each time its asked. I'd guess it's very reliable for text generation. But for code, I'm pretty sure the quality of the result would vary quite a from instance to instance.

This could very well cut the work needed greatly. But it doesn't come close to replacing anyone. ... Yet. Give it two years.

Evidently so did everyone on Tiktok.

So does life. heh. Vent your spaces. Vent all your spaces all the time. Jeez. :)

All nuclear fission for energy production is a bad thing. Full stop.

The notion of lazy pessimism is not a pure concept, in the sense that it did not emerge in someone's mind independent from any argument or bias. Who's interest does this notion serve? In which argument would someone use this term and why? And who are we really talking about.

Honestly, it made me squirm. Sounds like a conservative on the freshman debate team trying to sound "compassionate." Like, those Mexicans aren't lazy. They just need to realize that their attitude needs adjusting (said the guy who knows not one person from Mexico.)

This is more clever than deep and certainly less thoughtful than it might seem. Read some James Baldwin. Please.

Because reasons. lol

It's all short sighted given what we already know about the future. We know that these models will soon and continuously be more complex. We know they will only trend toward greater accuracy.

Computer engineers won't be impressed with the output for some time. Front end devs like me just got an amazing search tool. I work faster now. I told my boss I work faster now. No going back.

Understand, it's now faster for me to ask ChatGPT to find an answer and then Google to confirm it than it is for me to only google things. For me the AI revolution already came and will only be getting better.

With design and process know-how I'm not really worried about losing my job. AIs will eventually be able to make ad hoc decisions about people's brand identity. But not anytime soon.

Isn't this like trouble shooting a pong console to assess the future of video gaming?

Entirely agree. I find this article a bit premature in it's confidence. And it seems to counter the one thing everyone who uses it is saying, which is that getting one best answer (which you can confirm as necessary) by software that has some sense of what your are asking for is just faster.

As in, it would be faster for me to look something up on GhatGPT and confirm it with a Google search than just starting with a google search.

And then how inevitable is an AI product from Google, et al?

This is not intellectually honest in any way. You might as well be parroting nuclear industry talking points. I could get ChatGDP to make your argument better than you.

100% not worried.

There are some real short-term issues. Teachers who don't know anything about it. Students who think the teacher won't notice that their illiterate self got smart over the weekend. Legislators using it as a political football.

But ultimately before long text AI will be good enough to fool anyone. And you will be able to feed it your style and it will spit out text appropriate for your grade level, just good enough for the A. And cheating will happen.

Pandora's box is not going to be closed.

Does that spell universal illiteracy and the end of higher learning? lol. Nah. Testing will certainly have to be creative.

Just off the top of my head. Have every student write one paragraph during a whole period and make it as good as they can. That creates a baseline. And, you could actually use an AI (or not) to measure future results against it and map growth.

We will figure this out and AI, at least for a time, will be a good thing. Quantum Computer AI that can predict the future... not quite as excited about that one. heh.

Dude's website is a sin against the future. heh.

Timex Sinclair 1000. Because it had graphical characters I was able to make animated shorts using basic. I recall one where a plane was going lower each time it crossed the screen until it hit the ground and there was a big multi-stage explosion followed by an gravestone rising up from the bottom. Good times.

The arguments around this are always weak and spurious. I've been at this too long to take the bait from any trolls who 'have it all figured out.'

By no measure or justification is splitting the atom a good idea. There are few things more short sighted than arguing we should figure out what to do with nuclear waste because we haven't quite nailed solutions with ZERO waste.

People who minimize the significance of both nuclear waste and absolutely inevitable nuclear disasters just aren't thinking with any foresight or vision about the core concepts of sustainability.

But then that's it. A lot of people advancing Nuclear power aren't environmentalists at all. Learned that the hard way.

No nukes!

Sure, and a spot of heroin won't hurt you either. No one EVER suggested that eating some meat was harmful. Then Americans and some Brazillians decided they could live on 100% steak. Yeah, no.

Incorrect.

Labor costs and the primary purpose of call centers or bot chats: attrition. At a large scale a central focus of managing customer service is lowering labor costs. Less service. Automated call centers are literally designed to ensure that a certain percentage of people do not talk to a human, irrespective of whether their problem was resolved. Friction is added on purpose.

And of course, with AI playing an ever more prominent role, we can be certain that it's probably not a real person, soon enough even on the phone.

We can do better. :)

I've learned so much from your disagreement. :) Thanks for sharing all of this information. Seriously

Thanks for the explanation.

I was just out of high school then. I seriously thought we'd have great VR in 20 years.

Maybe 15 years later I checkout out Second Life. Kind of basic, but still seemed like the plan was on track.

Over a decade later VR games seemed to imply a near-future result we had all be hoping for.

But now it seems that the idea can't robustly scale till the internet is something stronger. Like, we can't yet have Fortnite that's 3000 players.

Could we create a system that intelligently applies one stylistic theme to all resolutions. To not aim for one visual experience, but ensure the scope. You could be in any size of space with any number of users, but the complexity of textures would depend on local storage and bandwidth. So it looks low-res on a mobile connection, but super 4k with all the files local and a super fast connection. Every resolution has a managed outcome. Like Minecraft view.

Just fantasizing. Not an engineer.

I'm not a luddite (on hacker news lol) and I can clearly see the revolutionary potential of blockchain. But, for the love of God, can we STOP the blind short-term speculation on the promise of extreme wealth. Moderate investment can support development without the kind of hype that ruins lives and sullies public perception of the technology.

This take is a disaster. So we get a decade of bloated frameworks to compensate for missing properties and then just when browsers are about to catch up and make all that cruft pointless we get people complaining about it. This isn't a thing. This is some software engineer edgelording. Yeah, we get it, you don't like CSS because you aren't good at it. Just stop.

This video certainly isn't the most profound take on the future of the internet at that time. By this point people were predicting just about everything we have now. Mainstream coverage of that has always sounded out of touch.

Ok, so how about the Terms of Service are just honest and we see if everyone still agrees? Personally, I'm happy to trade my psych profile for that sweet sweet content.