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This describes me, or described me - AI has brought on some existential feelings about programming as a hobby for the moment.

Playing along here, they don’t need /all/ of us to survive, just the desirable ones.

Just train your llm on it and create virtually the same thing it’s like a copyright get out of jail free card.

It’s like the aliens paradox. If AI can build killer software already, where is it?

But it isn't. He has a couple of tools he uses to measure loyalty of and to debase his followers. This is the former, it makes it very easy to see who is loyal and who is not. The tool to debase those that are loyal to him: he makes them repeat lies and accept increasingly morally decrepit things, kind of like how a pimp operates. We're currently on the "public executions" phase of that tool. These are not things that should be ignored and aren't simply the actions of a decaying mind.

You can't seriously, this far into Trump, be asking this question. It is a loyalty test and those that are loyal will get more rewards.

You forgot public executions!

Yes nothing politically divisive about renaming a common term and calling people who don’t use the new term THE ENEMY.

Picking your least favorite companies and applying it to them only is not the right thing to do. Laws and regulations, when not applied equally, are weapons.

There was a time before programming, hacking, open source, and related communities. These things did not exist even 60 years ago. There will be a time after them, and we’ll move on to something else.

Well he has a plan to cut his department's work in half!

If, like me, you were wondering what the room /actually/ looks like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132123913@N03/albums/721577110...

It's an article in a journal

Yeah that is all horrible but it doesn't make me want to commit homicide.

> The people are all hyper liberal, and the types that cannot help but judge individuals based on whether they’re in their group on not.

I agree that is a trait of the hyper liberal, but it belongs to hyper conservative people too. Also, given your feelings, why did you go a second time?

But you said this was obviously due to a decline in homeownership, which it isn’t.

OK, so turn them on 100%, scale (your numbers here) the results out to 50 million faces. Now you have still caught 0 criminals and you have 500 false positives.

We’re not comparing you to your friends, we’re comparing people today to people in 1975z You said you host a couple a year. The article said people in ‘75 hosted once a month. So you, a homeowner, already reflect this massive drop. The decrease in hosting is over 60% regardless of age, homeownership is UP in the same time period, down 10% in the youngest cohort, not enough to account for the massive drop in dinner parties.

Scary doesn't mean deadly, this road isn't anywhere near the top of the list for most deadly roads.

I would bet these days 80 year olds are having about as many dinner parties as 23 year olds. The topic here isn’t general observations about home ownership, it is whether home ownership rate since 1970 caused a drop in dinner parties by 68%. It didn’t.

The percentage of Americans who own their own homes has gone up 1% since 1970 so that isn’t it.

If you are not familiar with This American Life (or even if you are!) I suggest listening to this story instead of reading - hard to beat Ira’s delivery.

I do! I like sex too but that doesn’t mean I’d fuck a robot.

> 1. If it were true, I expect it would be a national security concern, and quickly remedied

You can’t prepare for everything, and even if you could remedy it, there are loads of more likely disaster scenarios that would get higher priority.

I don’t think anyone disputes that it can be abused, and sometimes is. It isn’t at a scale that it is killing you or America, and the remedy should reduce abuse without impacting those that need the help.

Held accountable how? Prison?

Don’t really get the downvotes here - if you spend more on AI than you ever did on payroll your clients aren’t going to get a discount.

Well we’ve spent over a trillion on infrastructure and we’re only just getting started so good luck getting your fucking discount

There was a time before programming, and there will be a time after programming.

So you are opposed to any taxes whatsoever?