graybeardhacker

I have a friend who handles dispositions of equipment for a very large government contractor. You'd probably be very surprised to see some of what goes through his warehouse. He got rid of two kid's go-karts last year. Government contractors buy some weird stuff for weird reasons.

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Everything is irrelevant until it isn't. Then it isn't until it is. If we all do our part, X will become irrelevant.

Came here to say exactly this. Every interaction becomes a lie. I can bullshit with the best of them but doing it every day is not a path to satisfaction for me personally. Trying to do a side hustle at the same time only makes it worse.

I use Claude Code every day and have for as long as it has been available. I use git add -p to ensure I'm only adding what is needed. I review all code changes and make sure I understand every change. I prompt Claude to never change only whitespace. I ask it to be sure to make the minimal changes to fix a bug.

Too many people are treating the tools as a complete replacement for a developer. When you are typing a text to someone and Google changes a word you misspelled to a completely different word and changes the whole meaning of the text message do you shrug and send it anyway? If so, maybe LLMs aren't for you.

Can people read that? I want to do a study to see the cognitive difference between people who can read that and those who can't.

I can't at all.

A stopped clock is right twice a day; a broken one can be wrong forever. Just saying.

If you unplug a life support system and a person dies did you kill a person or just disable their critical infrastructure?

I felt the same. But I think the reason is similar to how your fuel economy is absolutely destroyed by sitting still. When you average in a speed of zero the calculation goes haywire.

People in the US are so close to financial disaster that in order to avert disaster the US had to heavily subsidize those out of work. Many people got healthcare and unemployment benefits that would not have been otherwise available. This meant money for zero hours of work. When you average in $1/0 hours it does crazy things to the graph.

The reality is: During Covid the US rapidly adopted similar safety nets to EU countries and, in effect, aligned with their levels of poverty. Once the emergency measures ended we snapped back to our previous, precarious, poverty level.

Just my theory.

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I think this form of delusional psychosis brought on by AI is a more rapid version of the delusions formed in many of the echo chambers of the internet. It's basically a positive feedback loop created by, in this case and AI, but in other cases, people who seek uncontested agreement for their viewpoints.

If a person refuses to acknowledge any information that disagrees with their view and instead actively seeks niche groups that only support their ideas, then they are at risk of this same path of psychosis.

In real life we are forced to reconcile a variety of views that disagree with our own from people who we've come to trust through forced interaction which naturally broadens our understanding of the world.

As long as the cost of an accident is lower than the cost of fixing the system this will continue to happen.

This is one of many examples of why capitalism needs to be kept in check with democratic government oversight. Sometimes the financial incentives are not high enough to warrant changing the system.

Yet another example of this administration taking the side of companies over constituents. Now that the Consumer Protection Bureau has been dismantled, we can only expect more rulings like this.