lawstkawz

You! Of all people! I mean I am off the hook for your food, healthcare, shelter given lack of meaningful social safety net. You'll live and die without most people noticing. Why care about living up to your grasp literacy?

Online prose is the least of your real concerns which makes it bizarre and incredibly out of touch how much attention you put into it.

Low effort thought ending dismissal. The most copied of pasta.

Bet you used an LLM too; prompt: generate a one line reply to a social media comment I don't understand.

"Sure here are some of the most common:

Did an LLM write this?

Is this copypasta?"

Working in EE post BSc in EE from 99-06, it's pretty much CS + I know how to bread board and solder if absolutely necessary.

A whole lot of my coursework could be described as UML diagramming but using glyphs for resistors and ground.

Robots handle much of the assembly work these days. Most of the human work is jotting down arbitrary notation to represent a loop or when to cache state (use a capacitor).

Software engineers have come up with a whole lot of euphemistic notations for "store this value and transform it when these signals/events occur". It's more of a psychosis that long ago quit serving humanity and became a fetish for screen addicts.

Incompleteness is inherent to a physical reality being deconstructed by entropy.

Of your concern is morality, humans need to learn a lot about that themselves still. It's absurd the number of first worlders losing their shit over loss of paid work drawing manga fan art in the comfort of their home while exploiting labor of teens in 996 textile factories.

AI trained on human outputs that lack such self awareness, lacks awareness of environmental externalities of constant car and air travel, will result in AI with gaps in their morality.

Gary Marcus is onto something with the problems inherent to systems without formal verification. But he will fully ignores this issue exists in human social systems already as intentional indifference to economic externalities, zero will to police the police and watch the watchers.

Most people are down to watch the circus without a care so long as the waitstaff keep bringing bread.

Having grown up rural, fixing farm equipment, rebuilding cars, which propelled me towards a degree in electrical engineering (and after that an MSc in math), my colleagues the last 20 years have watched a lot of TV and played all the video games but can barely bake a potato.

"Unaccountable elites" are enabled by know-nothings in corporate management, software engineering teams, accounting, HR "just following orders".

The lack of muscle memory to be self sufficient keeps people in their lane and unable to look away, fix their own stuff, make their own stuff.

When labor knows nothing but just following orders leadership is empowered to build and fill gulags; what are the people going to do? Resist en masse? Not when they are addicted to GrubHub delivery of Subway.

Nah the fault lies with the American public for talking the freedom/exceptionalism talk, social projection of grit and ruggedness while the reality is learned helplessness and codependency

As someone who supports education loan forgiveness, I say we do as our elders have and just take from them without a whiff of concern for their grandstanding about morality.

What obligation to the generation that's been aware of physical evidence of climate change for decades and ignored it?

The old dying and the youth rewriting social and political custom and truism is a physical constant of the universe.

Physics is ageist; sorry/not sorry grandparents.

That’s entropy for you.

Society is a Ship Theseus; each generation ripping off planks and nailing their own in place.

Having been online since the late 80s (am only mid 40s...grandpa worked at IBM, hooked me and my siblings up with the latest kit on the regular) I have read comments like this over and over as the 90s internet, 00s internet, now the 2010s state of the "information super highway" has been replaced.

Tbh things have felt quite stagnant and "stuck" the last 20 years. All the investment in and caretaking of web SaaS infrastructure and JS apps and jobs for code camp grads made it feel like tech had come to a standstill relative to the pace of software progress prior to the last 15-ish years.