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If the LLM is operating at such a high level that it never actually constructs a useful product for humans to use, then how will that be good for humanity?

Comment · 1 month ago

To make money in order to eat food and have a home.

Comment · 2 months ago

I care about having a general purpose web content blocker. I use it for blocking all kinds of things that aren't ads, like YouTube comment sections, random noisy useless cruft I don't care about, etc.

Comment · 4 months ago

To be clear, this will also happen in the USA. The destruction of privacy is perhaps the only issue with full throated support across the political spectrum.

Comment · 4 months ago

Based on their actions, virtually all successful high level executives in tech only care about money and they don't care about making good products, etc.

Comment · 4 months ago

> they're clearly in it just for the money

That's often how jobs work. I happen to like my job, but let's not pretend like everyone is going to make sufficient money following their most passionate interests.

Comment · 4 months ago

> especially since the US is the only country that has this

I see this said in real life as well, but it's just false. Plenty of countries in North America do this, including Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#North_America

> Canada: Subsection 3(2) of the Citizenship Act states that Canadian citizenship by birth in Canada – including Canadian airspace and territorial waters – is granted to a child born in Canada even if neither parent was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident except if either parent was a diplomat, in service to a diplomat, or employed by an international agency of equal status to a diplomat. However, if neither parent was a diplomat, the nationality or immigration status of the parents does not matter.

Comment · 5 months ago

I agree. The sheer amount of flexibility it provides makes it both hard to use/read and also not particularly safe/sound. No other type system in existence allows you to be as incoherent as TS.

Comment · 5 months ago

The issue with TS is that it's not really a type system, it's mostly just comments with a linter bolted on. It tries, but it's fundamentally broken in too many ways.

Here's just one very simple example, there are many more. I've checked all the strict mode options and this appears to still "typecheck".

  var x: {a: number} = {a: 1};
  var y: {a: number|string} = x;
  y.a = 'FAIL';
  var n: number = x.a; // not actually a number

Source: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?noUncheckedIndexedAcces...