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Computers can destroy Magnus. Yet he still plays and nobody gets to tell him or anyone else they have to stop.

If people stop being interested in human-played chess, then yes he's out of luck. But that could happen with or without computers. Same for football and anything else.

So I don't think this analogy works either.

Considering how punishing a football career is, that sounds like a good deal.

Look at Andrew Luck.

> They’re saying the problem is that programming doesn’t result in bringing people together.

Why can't it?

People get together to do a ton of "worthless" things together for no good reason other than for the enjoyment of it. Like chess, basketball, book clubs, board games, video games, popdarts, etc.

> We were always replacing ourselves: Every "reusable" function or class or library you ever wrote represents lines of code won't get paid to write again

In theory, but not in practice. Instead, somehow we ended up writing essentially the same app over and and over, usually without reusing libs. You know because this time we'll use vue, or svelte, or phoenix, or htmx, or go, because this time we actually know what we're doing. so gotta start from the ground up and figure out how to store a row in a db as if we haven't done the same thing a million times before.

And that all under one roof. Now multiple that by thousands of roofs.

At least the devs were having fun and making good money writing all that code.

Right, but that's not what you said.

> Those countries are actively engaged in wars

So is the US.

> Trump is currently in the phase where he is desperately trying to build a legacy

He probably knows he'll be quickly forgotten once people wake up and stop giving him oxygen. And how sad is it that he still has to work overtime at his age.

I probably didn't phrase that well. I meant that garage woodworking is not necessary, in an economic sense. It's an optional/leisure activity.

And people still do it anyway. Which is great. Because it's still useful, and valuable. Just not necessary.

If you like sawing wood and gluing it together, just keep doing that.

If you want a wooden dresser, buy one.

Nobody does woodworking because it's necessary.

> she thought all music was just magically created when you ask Alexa for it

This is becoming more and more true.

This seems complex and expensive, and I suppose the only reason to do this is because you want to generate code faster? Do you really have so much code to write that a single LLM is too slow?

And then on top of that you need another agent to manage merging all of the subagent code together?

Are they also telling each other what to do? Because I for one can't assign and keep track of 10 things at once.

Right, and I suspect many people on here and elsewhere that want gambling banned don't want alcohol banned and can come up with several convenient reasons why not.

But imo the real reason is that they enjoy alcohol and don't enjoy gambling.

I wasn't talking about age limits. I meant that someone can drink themselves literally to death with nothing stopping them. It is way more dangerous than gambling.

You exaggerated by implying all gamblers are out of control. If you only meant compulsive gamblers you could have said it.

And her father worked for Letterman.

> Gamblers aren't free in any meaningful sense. That's what a compulsion is - the inability to do otherwise.

You're making a bad faith argument that all gamblers are slaves to the casino. The overwhelming majority of gamblers do not have a compulsion.

Yet there's nothing stopping someone from drinking themselves to oblivion.

And, as a percentage of participants, alcohol is significantly more likely vs gambling to result in addiction, and far more likely to kill someone.

We also don't talk about banning alcohol.

Freedom includes being free to self regulate and to make mistakes.

> And then when you come back after a few days, you realize that it has overwritten

1. Review what it writes as it writes it

2. Give it a smaller, more focused, scope to make changes

Or, keep vibing but then don't get mad about it.

> that they lack basic skills, such as knowing their own zip code

Knowing your zip code isn't a skill though.

I don't know my ATM pin. Does that make me an idiot? Turns out I just don't need to know it.

Your comment inspired me to read the article.

I've done this despite also feeling silly about it, but then was surprised to get value from the response. Like something I didn't think about or would have otherwise forgotten to do.

So now I do it regularly.

I agree. But that still doesn't make it a lie or illegal.

> We need new words!

The words we have are fine.

We just need to assign liability by ownership/initiation: if your "agent" destroys something, even though you didn't tell it to (because it had "agency"), you should be liable for the damages.

Because a PE is a fact not an interpretation.

As i write this, an article about Claude is 6th from the top on the linked site.

> you aren't countering my core point that golf courses is the possibly the worst use of space and basically anything else would serve the same or better utility for way more people

My counter point was that everything we do doesn't have to be motivated by efficiency gains. Sports, golf especially, isn't trying to cram the most people possible into a small space.

By your own logic, we should replace soccer fields with kicking a ball into a net.

A curved wall?

Yes. And right after we kill golf lets pave over Central Park. And we can tear down sports arenas and concert venues after that. It's a huge waste when you think about how few people actually go there and what benefit they actually have. Sports overall are a waste of time. Everyone should just walk in the woods instead. Except soccer. You're right that we need thousands more soccer fields. Its way more efficient than any other kind of exercise. And there is so much demand for soccer in the US, you can't even find an empty field. In contrast to golf courses which are mostly empty like you noticed.