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Won't someone please think of the children

You'd just vibe code all that.

You just type your exact comment into Claude and it'll take care of it. Don't worry.

The smartest people are those who use their brains the least now.

Been hearing this a lot, and I don't follow the logic behind it beyond "try to say the most extreme thing you can to get attention".

Is the theory that, instead of say, a company just subscribing to a piece of HR software to help manage their staff, they will instead spend weeks pissing around with Claude to hack an unproven one together, followed by then continuing to piss around maintaining and altering it over the coming years, and this will be considered an economical approach?

The crime having happened is forever. No-one is entitled to have it forcibly forgotten. That's up to other people to decide.

Jesus, that is a read

They all sound like a bunch of Always Sunny in Philadelphia deranged narcissists

Same guy... Now eight years... One wonders at what point he will accept he's just pissing around. Or others will stop enabling him.

Impressive patience by the wife and probably other extended family, as his "carry".

Big credit for his honesty and transparency though. Good he's telling his story.

> Take R as an ordered field with its usual topology and ask for a finite-dimensional, commutative, unital R-algebra that is algebraically closed and admits a compatible notion of differentiation with reasonable spectral behavior.

No thank you, you can keep your R.

Damn... does this paragraph mean something in the real world?

Probably I've the brain of a gnat compared to you, but do all the things you just said have a clear meaning that you relate to the world around you?

English newspaper article about a woman in Sweden.

Invokes US statute.

Americaaaa, fuck yeah!

Am I taking crazy pills, or did we not literally just have a global pandemic that forced all developers to work from home for over a year, and literally there was no problem?

Is it actually possible that it has occurred to no-one to just hire them without asking they move their physical bodies into the US? Or if TZ is such a biggie, get them a visa to literally anywhere within the Americas?

Would be a good plot for a movie: an AI that's built a company by itself through stolen identity, anonymous companies and trusts, and impersonating a human on video calls etc.

"Has anyone ever actually seen him in person?"

Starts acquiring other companies and some auditor protagonist eventually discovers it and that it's controlling a third of the economy or something.

Well I think this is a very wanted utility - tourists especially like rooftop (or high floor) places because they like the combined experience of enjoying good food/drink while overlooking the travel location they're in from a high vantage point. And they've got money they need to spend. So if people know when they use this that it'll quickly give them nearby good rooftop locations, i.e. above all else it's reliable, it'll get uptake.

For that reason I don't think the categorization approach is that helpful. The UI that'd be more likely to work is: visit the site, hit "find rooftop locations near me", it asks for Location permission, you get a list ranked by best rated / closest (and then provide location links for each out to popular map apps).

Filtration based on type of venue could happen after that stage if the visitor cares.

There'd still be the option for manual searching for if e.g. the tourist is planning this ahead.

Sounds badass

What's surprising about that? The key word is "endorse", not "do"...

Very nice! Nothing else caters to this effectively. Even asking AI results in weak or wrong recommendations.

It's very simple: if you're not spending your own money, so what?

All other discussion is just noise.

If you accept the idea that it's OK for the state to spend 50% of the economy, on things for you or your various self-congratulatory moral-high-horse programs, this is actually where the money will get pissed away to.

It's all carefully avoiding noticing that socialism is theft because maybe you might get a sniff of the loot.

That's because leftism needs an antagonism against the cultural self. I.e. it needs to somehow have an element of fighting against others in your own society.

That exists with say Palestine - it's allows picking a side that's against a western right-wing state, Israel.

It also exists with say Russia, here's a right wing white male traditionalist attacking a state that was aligning towards the leftist EU.

In the case of Iran, there's not really an angle there.

So if you understand leftism not as standing for its claimed virtues and instead being politically akin to a group of teenagers rebelling for the sake of it against their own authority figures, it makes perfect sense that deaths of the downtrodden in general are not of concern - the victimhood cause must resonate with a particular format that gives them a clear and familiar path to self-congratulation - which is the primary goal.

Strong HR practices to retain those who know it like the back of their hand

I assume the logic was:

1) People demand the government be accountable for their failing to protect them

2) Government responds by increased giving the appearance of protecting them, since that creates more lowest-common-denominator sense of feeling safe than the government actually protecting them does; votes protected

3) Complaints of "security theatre" don't alter the above - they just have to wait until people have forgotten their fear while very slowly, bit by bit, without it being noticed, stop doing the nonsense

Or put simply: "terrorists win"

Relatively tame rhetoric for them then. Usually he'd have been a "criminal illegal gunman". Close to an admission from this admin that "our bad" we're gonna get methinks.

My theory is that anti-vax sentiment is ultimately caused by democratic thinking.

To a neutral mind, it's obvious that it's a case by case matter. Some vaccines are not worth taking, and some are stupid not to take.

That nuance is intolerable in a democratic society. Instead, everyone is expected to take a position, and then dig in on it - magnifying it into absurd absolutes - and then fight the other side to the bitter end.

The result of this is that people who were really just "I don't like needles" now turn it into a sophisticated and defiant movement against vaccination as a concept.

And on the other side, people who were just annoyed that others were not contributing to herd immunity end up wanting the other side vaccinated by force.

And this just makes the whole thing worse because why care about herd immunity if you basically hate your fellow citizens as "usually enemies".

I mean, if you present this to dates you will abruptly fix the relationship ambiguity issue, so technically effective.

The dumb part of this is: so who prompts the AI?

Well probably we'd want a person who really gets the AI, as they'll have a talent for prompting it well.

Meaning: knows how to talk to computers better than other people.

So a programmer then...

I think it's not that people are stupid. I think there's actually a glee behind the claims AI will put devs out of work - like they feel good about the idea of hurting them, rather than being driven by dispassionate logic.

Maybe it's the ancient jocks vs nerds thing.

Legit it is actually becoming a marketing game just to get a job now.

I saw a guy on social media the other day in the street with a resume placard.

Whole milk was forbidden in US schools?

Almost surreal how wrong people with a absolute sense of certainly can be. Every time you hear "experts say X is terrible for you" you basically start the clock on the news article "new experts say X is wonderful for you".

One wonders what else will be found to have been a load of crap. At this point if I heard "drinking improves your driving skills" I'd barely be surprised.

I think one reason is morbid curiosity about how bad other people can be.

Many of the stories there are just incomprehensible that a person can behave like described in the story and then when met with a boundary act as if they're the one who's been momentously wronged.

Kind of makes one sad how little punishment there is in the world vs how much wrong.

But is he not orange and bad?

I think the problem might be that taking personal responsibility for one's own morality and beliefs is a burden that's too much, too scary, for many people.

It feels a lot safer and more comfortable to simply look around you and draw your morals from what everyone else is saying and doing.

There's something isolating about trying to be good.

The dude strikes me as not having had a particularly happy life. Damn. RIP.

Must be pretty bad at tech. He became the richest person on earth through engineering plays. Pretty bad though.

Unfortunately he's probably right. It's a "better the devil you know" situation, and those institutionally and ethnically aligned with the regime fear its collapse more. From what I've read anyway.

Who's saying both aren't crap?

I reckon Netanyahu and the Ayatollah would've been good friends in another life.