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Exactly my instinct, as well.

The difference, of course, is that people don't care if their spreadsheet is written by an artisanal human programmer or just some stupid, swarthy Idea Guy banging on a keyboard. It seems that a lot of people do however care if the music they listen to or the art on their living room wall is made by a human or by a machine. Maybe it's about "positioning" but I don't think so. Most people want to pretend they are creatures of finer taste than everyone else around them. In this regard, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop on AI in (for example) music, and there being kind of lip-syncing scandals with popular musicians.

Haha calling the fire marshal ahead of time "to ensure we remained within the capacity constraints for the facility" is an amazing touch!

A video about exiting vim, however...

Many moons ago, I was involved in the technical side of volunteer work for domestic violence victims escaping abusive relationships with e.g. law enforcement (cops), who even fifteen years ago had sweeping powers to track and stalk their victims. Things like actual anonymous burner phones and the ability to e.g. create new email accounts without government identification were critical to the process of getting these people out safely, or alive, without fear of retaliation.

I can't even imagine how difficult this job must be nowadays, with bullshit like Flock spanning hundreds of police departments participating in their nationally-linked database. I have zero sources for what I'm about to say, but my instinct is that the political machines (expanding powers hidden behind "think of the children") behind how technology is evolving today has gotten people killed.

The worst thing about AI is that it's camouflage for stupid people. And it often gets combined with utter confidence in some position because they're too stupid to know the machine is confidently wrong.

Or a huge software company where you only get the end operating system, but none of its source code.

Buy the Neiman Marcus cookies and feel entitled to the recipe?

Lots of secret sauce in the world.

No, I actually like this reply, because it's true in its essentials. You can find someone to tell you what you want to hear, but it's not going to pay the rent. And actual help needs to come from within, and no one has a magic wand or a one-weird-trick to actually help you. In the meantime, you have to pay the rent. Work sucks to varying degrees, and we all need coping mechanisms. Waving a flag with some acronym is not, at the end of the day, going to pay the rent. Find coping mechanisms.

Boring old programmer. Honestly I gave up rules-lawyering in D&D some time ago, because it just makes things a slog. Which, while fun for me sometimes (I play Dwarf Fortress), isn't as fun for anyone else.

In grade school I kept meticulous, tedious logbooks of ships entering and leaving an imaginary port for tax purposes.

Not to sound like a codger, but we even said in the 90s that computers are just very fast idiots.

This is smart but also hilarious.

Imagine if we did this for countries.

I dunno. Is AI less than forty years old?