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As long as it doesn't cost me anything, I'd like to see it play out in court and know for sure.

But that is very unlikely even if everyone adopted it, which they won't.

Those things are all still signals. If taken from a snapshot of the Internet pre-AI.

I think the classic one is pedophiles and protecting children.

If someone uses ChatGPT to create child porn or worse, to get help tracking down and meeting children, there is NO way in hell the public will accept "don't punish the toolmaker" as a principle.

No. But you can easily make and post content that is not easily detectable as generated.

You only notice plastic surgery when it's bad, but that doesn't mean all plastic surgery looks bad...

If the cartels attack American civilian infrastructure with drones, the American public will support a full on land invasion and annexation of Mexico if they're told that will make it stop.

Rent seeking refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

That seems non-financial.

Plenty of things are made fast, at high quality, and cheaply.

Some things just aren't very hard to make.

I don't pay my employees based on inputs like how hard they work, I pay based on outputs.

Any other system of incentives would be insane.

Things are different if you're e.g. a lawyer and have billable hours.

A burger flipper cannot flip 20x the burgers. There isn't really any way to produce more output flipping burgers. Even if you could, if there isn't a queue of people waiting to collect their orders, there isn't any point in producing more blindly.

The person responsible for designing the process that thousands of franchises use probably does make a lot of money.

> In reality, it feels like we are financially better off than we were before.

Are you financially better off or does it only feel that way?

If you were actually better off, why mention feelings?

Yes, I just described the difference.

It is clearly different because in one case you are not guilty of fraud.

Being guilty of a crime plus fraud is obviously worse than just being guilty of the crime.

Breaking the law by stealing a loaf of bread is obviously different to killing one million people but "both boil down to breaking the law" - I'm not sure that comment contains that much information.

The thing is, some people don't view "maintaining networks" as work, and it's something that not only comes naturally when they do it, but they actually do it naturally, automatically.

These people have a real advantage.

It's like how I may have a real durable advantage because I really enjoy reading about software, computers, etc, so I just consume a lot of information passively.

Or maybe how I get a lot of practice arguing or convincing people on reddit or space battles.com.

If someone viewed reading Hacker News as work, I'm not sure they'd EVER do it.

The ultimate connecting up of the dots would be brain implants that just give you knowledge with zero effort.

I don't know if I'd ever be comfortable with that, hopefully I'll just be retired or dead when that takes off.

Managing complexity, modularity, separation of concerns, were already critical for ensuring humans could still hold enough of the system in their brains to do something useful.

People who do not understand that will continue to not understand that it also applies to AI right now. Maybe at some point in the future it won't, not sure. But my impression is that systems grow in complexity far past the point where the system is gummed up and no-one can do anything, unless it's actively managed.

If a human can understand 10 units of complexity and their LLM can do 20, then they might just build a system that's 30 complex and not understand the failure modes until it's too late.

Jaywalking was illegal in NYC until 2025 but literally every crossing had people doing it constantly. This is not figurative, it actually is literal.

Including people doing it in front of police. Including the police themselves!

The law only existed for police to harass and fine blacks and Latinos. And indeed, that was how it was struck down.

It is critical to a just society that victims of unjust laws or uneven enforcement complain!

Yes, but there is a difference between:

1. Customers want to do something, you help them do it, but it's illegal.

2. Customers want to do something, you tell them you did it, but you were lying and defrauding them.

This comment is pretty wild:

> In addition to what @The-King-of-Toasters said, the worst case scenario is really mild: A new version of windows comes out, breaking ntdll compatibility. Zig project adds a fix to the std lib. Application developer recompiles their zig project from source, and ships an update to their users.

Uh so what if the application developer isn't around any more?

The fact that they consider the worst case to be one where the application is still actively supported and the developer is willing to put up with this nonsense is pretty surprising. Not sure how anyone could believe that.

Apple is not catering to minimum salaries in poor countries. Does this really need to be explained?

$3499 is definitely enthusiast compatible. That's beefy gaming PC tier, which is possibly the canonical example of an enthusiast market.

This isn't tens of thousands of dollars for top tier Nvidia chips we're talking about.

The Goodhart's law effect there seems obvious - rather than code getting better, you might just become less rigorous in your reviews and stop commenting as much. You may not even realize your standards are dropping.

Yeah, that's pretty appalling.

Regardless of how good the philosophy of something is, if it's as niche and manpower constrained as OpenBSD is then it's going to accumulate problems like this.

Is this an expertly crafted joke response or an extremely depressing authentic AI sales pitch response?

> you just can’t play StarCraft that much better than the best humans

I could not disagree with this more.

Just the perfect micro part means that computers have a far higher ceiling than humans.

No, it is not possible in theory for humans to have perfect micro with thousands of APM!

We're talking about hundred unit zergling swarms perfectly dodging tank shells. Hundreds of APM at multiple locations on the map. Perfect timing and placement for every order.

This is like saying an aimbot wouldn't make a top CS pro much better.

I bet if people could star repos anonymously those porn repos would have more stars.

Unless they invent kernel as a service or undertake a remarkably ambitious AI license laundering project, I think you're right.

Anthropic is deemed a betrayer and a supply chain risk for actually enforcing their principles.

OpenAI agrees to be put in the same position as Anthropic.

It seems like you must actually somehow believe that history will repeat itself, Hegseth will deem OpenAI a supply chain risk too, then move to Grok or something?

There's surely no way that's actually what you believe...

> We'll still get full self-driving electric cars and robots next year too.

I've taken a Waymo and it seemed pretty self driving.

Money can be exchanged for services.

Hope this helps.

If it's incredibly fast at a 2022 state of the art level of accuracy, then surely it's only a matter of time until it's incredibly fast at a 2026 level of accuracy.

I almost feel like the employee/employer distinction is actually worse than tariff fakery because at least tariffs are somewhat confusing to the average person, so you almost see why they get fooled.

But I feel like no-one would be fooled if you changed an e to an r on payslips (employee contribution to employer) - it's just obviously the same.