nostromo123

Someone who is that involved and desiring to learn will get an A even without help, and someone who is not will not care enough beyond "do my homework for me".

Best to just shoot these pesky meat eaters in the name of saving the planet, right? /s

Sorry to hear your job is so simple it can be automated away, but for the rest of us there's no big danger.

A machine can already run better, fly better, play chess better than me... how does that affect me? Zero.

"Architect systems and database tables from user stories in seconds"...haha, no. This only works for simplistic problems that we got as students to solve on paper during a 2h exam back in the day.

Realistic problem from my own workplace: "Ok, ChatGPT, write clock- cycle exact embedded C code for checking in less than 5ms if firmware on this ARM is working correctly with the sensor described in datasheet.pdf. Detect and implement countermeasures for any EM interference issues due to cable length. Implement it in a generic way so it can work with Atmel and NXP microcontrollers. There is a bug that caused the sensor to sometimes return wrong values when using the system on a Kuka xyz robot, please debug."

... yeah, I'm still waiting.

"A lot of the world is able to walk, so people don't need wheel chair access in buildings". "A lot of the world is male/female, so people don't need made up genders and surgery". ... sounds great, huh?

Anyway, where does this "people don't need X" stop, though? You also don't need oat milk, tofu, soy, peas, etc. to survive.

Let's just go back to foraging for roots and berries and see what population size we can sustain!

Absolutely agree! Well, they had to scramble to spin up something fast, it's the best they could do.

"I agree this probably shouldn't be here..."

And yet, here it is ;) This whole "asked GPT, here's what it said" spiel is getting old already.

Forget AGI, just make a robot that can fold laundry. I'll be here waiting :)

Then I guess I can ethically pirate anything I want, since I'm not "stealing the money from a human creator" anymore, huh?

You're paid more not because what you do is more important, but because many more people can do what your buddy does than what you do.

"They do the same thing you and I do; read the literature and come to a conclusion."

I'm sorry for you if you can't do better than an LLM.

"The park is vibrant and full of kids and families over the day.. dealers don't even annoy you usually if you signal strong non-interest or don't fall into typical buyer group."

Yeah, that's where I want to take my kids, where the "drug dealers don't annoy us if we're not interested"... you must have very high annoyance thresholds.

None of this is "industrial control task", aka "real work".

"Learning facts and trivia was already devalued by everyone having a hyper-encyclopedia in their pockets, this will just extend that."

I hope you don't end up having surgery done by a doctor who has to check a "hyper- encyclopedia" in his pocket because learning facts is supposedly obsolete...

Exactly! Also, don't forget detailed photos of your partner/kids, together with their workplace/school addresses.

There is no "spare time", there is only "time".

You're either wanking away the time with indecision over what to do (I speak from experience, used to do that before my son was born :P), or you're not that interested in whatever you think you want to do.

I used to have trouble motivating myself to stick with a hobby (that I was really generally very fond of) and do it consistently over months. Now, I get maybe 30 min a day (bonus luxury when it's in one batch...), and I don't have to motivate myself - I just do, because my brain is burning for action ;)

Edit: or are you falling in the rabbit hole of "just 5 minutes on tiktok/yt/etc...oh my, it's 2h later"?

You should let an AI bot have sex with your significant other when the tech is ripe enough, to avoid burning even more of that precious lifespan on things that a machine can do better than you ;)

Tongue in cheek of course, but if you think like that, nothing is "worth" doing - why learn languages, why run, why climb a mountain...

Of course, Hersh's hypothesis was getting a bit too much attention, have to deflect quickly...

His "anecdotal joke" is fact and was in the German speaking news, just like the "anecdote" about the activists who blocked the street to protest cars after arriving in, you guessed it, a car of their own!

They are hypocrites who make life hard for others by preaching water and drinking heavily wine, as it were.

The best were the two German "climate activists" who flew to Thailand and Bali - their explanation was that they flew there as private persons and not as "activists" :D

Well then it's ok if I pollute as well, since I'm doing it only as a private person and not in my quality as an activist!

Had the same experience with other content.

I'm ready to pay, here's my money, take it! Instead I have to wait for months and be spoiled by seeing everyone discuss it, just because of some stupid regulation.

No thanks - if you won't provide me the content legally for money, someone else will provide it to me for free, with much less hassle.

"Will my daughter compare herself to these things without knowing they aren't real and go insane..." This is already the case today with airbrushed and photoshopped models in media and ads. It's more a question of education than of an issue in the real world. Teach her not to give a f*k about what others say, that is the most valuable lesson.

Big corporation with shady past promises us nicely that they will not sue...thanks, I'll pass!

Seeing how you have to wait for hours even to get an ambulance for a heart attack or stroke in the UK, I wouldn't get my hopes too up.

If you honestly think the planet is "collapsing", please don't have children - fix yourself first instead, thank you!

I don't understand what you guys are working on if ChatGPT can do your jobs...

"Essentially, we're looking at serous ecological collapses by 2040 or 2050." Citation needed. I think it wilk rather be that the young people who are too afraid to live because "something something climate apocalypse" will collapse mentally when the expected doom has not materialized and they have wasted their lives.

You can import them, but you can't force them to work - see Germany, Sweden, etc. ;)

This is what "diversity" ideology leads to when taken to the extreme, kids!