No shit.

As I often joke: the only people who genuinely believe AGI is intelligent now or soon are the ones lacking themselves intelligence.

To be frank this sounds pointless; I don’t expect veggie burgers to be “disguised” as beef burgers, to the point a clueless customer might buy one when they want the other. So it isn’t protecting anyone. (It isn’t harming anyone either, really. Call it “veggie patty” and it’s still the same.)

On the other hand, I do expect people to put a lot of random stuff in burgers - such as cheaper / non-beef meat, fillers, etc. - so that would be better grounds (pun not intended) for legislation.

It’s amazing (and sad) how much Microsoft goes out of its way to seize control over the users’ machines. At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if it had remote kill switches and took your data hostage.

Yeah, but imagine Wine was infested with adware and slow as fuck.

In my country this sort of bet has become quite popular, too. I wish it became illegal.

It’s like saying “please let me be your dog, Makima.”

Nah, their argument is clearly an analogy between both situations, to “prove” both things are the same.

That said your concern is reasonable. It’s about transition; something the left has been discussing since at least the Second International. Individual takes go from “you won’t make an omelette if you don’t break some eggs” to “minimise harm as much as possible”. I lean towards the later - seize, put it under the control of the workers and/or general population, let them gradually restructure it, repeat as needed.

We [cryptagion, infinitesunrise, for_some_delta, me, etc.] are talking about 1) political power, 2) over the society as a whole, that is 3) effectively unchecked, since the only so-called “check” (voting) is a circus.

In the meantime, your example is about 1) decision making, 2) in a very restrict scope, in a way that 3) can easily have internal counters and checks (i.e. if the head surgeon is doing some dumb shit, other surgeons should be able to remove them).

In other words your whole comment boils down to three paragraphs of “ackshyually, no practical difference between apples and oranges”. It’s so fucking bad that, to be blunt, I’m not wasting further time with it.

Nobody here is complaining about the existence of infra-structure. OP is talking about who controls it. It’s about power.

It’s a “democracy” but it’s mostly ruled by a handful of old guys coming from long-standing political families. Your vote is mostly there to justify the rule, not to change it.

AGAB (all governments are bastards).

“With today’s tools — including AI — it’s no longer necessary for artists to learn a craft.

Stopped reading here.

The thing with ⟨arroba⟩ among Portuguese speakers became a bit weird, I feel like nowadays people associate it mostly with the symbol, instead of what it represents (14.7kg, typically rounded up to 15kg). Except cattle herders, apparently they still use the weight measure.

They want garbage, I have a neverending machine that produces it. I just throw some email and docs at it, got slop decks for days.

They care about things that look productive, not actually productive.

When the bubble bursts, I swear, HN will be screeching “THOSE PRIMITIVES COULDN’T HANDLE THE FUTURE! THAT’S WHY WE DON’T HAVE NICE THINGS!”. The attitude of some users there towards AI there is disgustingly religious.

I’ll still keep using chatbots for my neat conjugation / declension tables.

maybe there will be a South American Nations map as well.

For SA you’ll probably see something like: Southern Cone, Andes, Gran Colombia, Guyana Plateau, Amazon, Old Portuguese Coast, Bandeiras. With most “nations” being either subdivisions or overlaps of 2+ of those.

Not that the concept of nation is useful or objective though. As I often say, my nation is the third planet.

I’m aware he was banned, the dev himself said it at the end. However I think it’s important enough to stress it, because people often give a free pass based on intentions, when IMO they shouldn’t.

What else are you recommending?

Context: I’m a translator, and I used to be part of a few co-operative projects. (This was before ChatGPT.) A lot of what I’m saying is transposed from my experience into development.

1. Check his tone. Neither rude, nor overly polite. That was perfect.
2. If you suck at communication, let someone else do it for you. Focus on the work instead.
3. Look for red flags of a sloppy job; if you find those, refuse the contrib, even if it would be otherwise good. It’s a good way to trial entitled people out, so they don’t harm your project. (Good contributors will be quick to fix the issue.)
4. If you see yourself spending more time fixing the others’ shit than doing your job, raise your standards on what you’ll accept or not.

If I was a dev I’d have a zero-tolerance policy towards shit like this. I don’t care if the muppet is “just chrying to halp lol lmao”; people like this are a dead weight and a burden.

I used to roll my eyes at that, too. Nowadays I interpret it as “does this apply to you, too? Feel free to chime in.”

I’m roughly in the same situation. My issues with phone programs are, roughly in order of what pisses me the most:

1. “This could be a web page, but gotta make it an «app» to milk user data” bullshit.
2. It’s probably paid, and expensive. Else, it’s infested with ads. Else, it’s crap.
3. [Subjective] I hate repeatedly touching a tiny screen. I’d rather use a real keyboard. Like I’m doing now.

Couple that with phones in general being designed so you don’t have full ownership of them, and frankly? I barely use my phone in relation to my desktop. Except as, you know, a phone.