rationalist

I was too young to appreciate (denotative, not connotative) the dotcom crash. I will have my popcorn ready this time - for whichever direction it goes.

> generational debt

I don't know about other countries, but in the U.S., debt is not inherited.

> farm food when food can just be bought at the grocery store!

If your comment was supposed to be a joke, it fell flat.

Even two spoiled kids, and yet those two didn't scream. I know the parents of those two kids a lot better, and I know they wouldn't give in to it which would just reinforce that behavior.

Dreamhost is no longer the hosting company that I originally signed up for. I'm also looking for a different host.

I might have been willing to stick it out, but their panel/website-management is so slow.

It's kind of funny to see the Pokemon card vending machines at various grocery stores.

Today I went to a hardware store, and was humourously-surprised to find a Pokemon card vending machine there too.

Yes, multiple kids under 6.

How much of screaming kids, is bad parenting? None of the kids in dual working parent, or single parent households that I grew up with, screamed.

More typical polish: iPhone 6 that bends easily.

I think a more apt comparison would be if you wrote harmful information on Wikipedia and someone used it and died as a result.

I'm not sure what U.S. laws say about that though.

Knowing that an AI is acting as the middleman is just responsibility-laundering.

It's what a lot of people are doing. I'm not just writing a reply to that person, but for everyone who might read it.

And that user has no responsibility for creating the slop to begin with, for the sole purpose of poisoning a resource that others rely on?

Is that what you're doing?

I imagine that's what the horse riders said about "driving" for the people using horseless carriages.

Please don't let this become an "us versus them" ideology.

Progress is always uncomfortable for some people. Jobs and skills have always been displaced by advancements in technology.

Which the AI then passes on to a user who doesn't know any better and then you get recipes for mixing bleach and ammonia for curing asthma (extreme example).

> people who want to root their phones is a fraction of 1%. children, teenage girls…

If someone lies to them and tells them there is an app that lets them get free Roblox bucks or whatever, but first they have to root their phone, they will. If someone lies or makes an app that removes pimples or adds makeup in realtime, or something, but they make it only work on rooted phones, they will.

It seems to be taken very literally by people who say "(Billionaire) could feed everyone for a year instead of..." or such.

Not really; it's a very common strategy.

To the person who disagrees that it's not the same: I'm not sure how to prove a negative.

I think you're 'putting words in my mouth'. I didn't say that people were becoming 10x better or more productive, just that there are 10x more people being enabled by AI versus programmers who see AI as destroying their jobs.

No, that's not quite the same.

Not everyone is going to publish their creations, not everyone is on HN, and not everyone on HN is going to shout from the rooftops about how they are in that larger group of newly-enabled people.

Every new technology is going to also enable bad people, just like the Internet enabled scammers, it enabled a lot more people to be more productive.

Uh...

Edit: I'm at a loss for words.

> agent maxing

If not all agents are equal and require calibration, then it seems like people can specialize, so you're only competing with other specialists in that area (and not necessarily trying to out-compete).

I don't think your expectation is reasonable for the majority.

Of course this does not undo any grief, dismiss it, or better their situation:

I don't know if it helps, but they should know that for every one of them that experiences this grief, it brings joy to ten other people that are now able to do things (make vibe-coded programs) that used to be out of reach for them.

Nice try bot spammer /s

I would say you already did the first time it happened. Obviously they didn't actually fix it like they said they did, but this time they will, pinky-promise!

Musk does not have $3000 x 300,000,000+ in cash laying around.

That is a common misconception about billionaires. His net worth is tied up in assets, and there are not enough buyers to buy every share at the highest offered price per share.

Contact that bank's regulator.

If my mother's real maiden name is Johnson, I write in random false name like Smithers-James.

It's plausible, hard to guess, and harder to social enginer than "It's a bunch of random letters and numbers."