riehwvfbk

It's not as much "lol" as what's implied, you have to read between the lines a bit. Their example is Qatar, a tiny elite supported by slaves. And in the brave new world we'll have a tiny elite supported by AI slaves. Left unsaid is what will happen to those for whom there is no place within the tiny elite.

There are two possibilities: mass extinction, or the new elite isn't tiny. Everyone hopes for the latter and fears the former.

Apple UX: "intuitive" features you have to discover via some random video reel. Of course you have to drag your messages sideways to see when they were sent, that's Good UX!

Sprinkle with crashes and bugs that are never fixed and charge a premium.

TLAs are not basic knowledge, or expert knowledge. They are expertise theater.

They dont seem to actually last 10 years though. Sure, in an old Prius you only care about the battery not being completely shorted out, and the price of battery degradation is slightly worse fuel economy.

However, every time I look at renting a Tesla on Turo, each and every example has reviews with stories about not making 100 miles to the next stop on their trip. These are cars that are only 3-4 years old, not 10.

So in other words, they can make their LLM disagree with the preferred narrative of the current US administration? Inconceivable!

Note that the value of $current_administration changes over time. For some reason though it is currently fashionable in tech circles to disagree with it about ICE and H1B visas. Maybe it's the CCP's doing?

The whole parasocial aspect of it is what feels fake, distasteful, and icky.

The very idea of gaining power in the modern world is through parasocial relationships. Think Taylor Swift: her fans follow every single one of her updates even though they are highly scripted to engage exactly their "user persona", and present a Taylor who has nothing to do with the real one, another persona. Whoever can be at the top of this pyramid (i.e. make enough people believe that an Instagram-mediated relationship with a fake media persona is real) - wins the game.

I don't claim to have an answer, however, consider this. A few years ago it was considered impossible to win the battle against Big Food. They would continue to shove increasingly fake food simulacra down our throats and we'd be doomed. There was a backlash. With parasocial relationships, I feel that AI has tipped the scales into "enough is enough" category and people will demand real connection over personas.

And maybe we are just talking past each other. Maybe.

Yes, by all means, build and promote your product.

Planning out interactions according to 3 fake personas is still fake though. Not that I have any better ideas, we all have to engage with this nonsense and waste our lives producing it. It would be nice to somehow not have to.

I don't hear any apologies out of Israel.

Also, you may want to look up the definition of genocide. The parts of Ukraine that Russia took are almost 90% Russian ethnically.

Somehow you don't hear any calls for Ukraine to return the parts of Poland that were attached to it by Comrade Stalin either. They've been a part of Ukraine for barely longer than the parts of Russia where the fighting is happening.

So yeah, whataboutism.

Not getting thousand line AI slop PRs from resume builders who are looking for a "LLVM contributor" bullet point before moving on is a net positive. Lack of such contributors is a feature, not a bug.

And you can't go and turn this around into "but the gate keeping!" You just said that expecting someone to learn and be an asset to a project is entitlement, so by definition someone with this attitude won't stick around.

Lastly, the reason that the resume builder wants the "LLVM contributor" bullet point in the first place is precisely because that normally takes effort. If it becomes known in the industry that getting it simply requires throwing some AI PR over the wall - the value of this signal will quickly diminish.

Yup. Certain people get their panties in a tizzy every time an R president gets elected. Dubya was the antichrist, remember? It's just the same old tune all over again.

But these US wages aren't actually all that great anymore. The vast majority of people will have nothing to show for their decade of working in tech other than a bad back, carpal tunnel, and a neurosis.

The cost of living in the Bay Area creeps ever upward and absorbs just enough salary to keep the worker bees coming back to the office the next day. It's really not that different of a life than elsewhere in materialistic terms. Except there is also nothing to do other than work or go hiking. More and more people are cluing in.

And also sold out an American whistleblower to the FBI... A WikiLeaks it is not.

It seems this cat is self-belling.

A used granola bar cannot be resold. I hope. A used house, on the other hand, is perfectly fine.

So, apologies, but that argument is a previously used granola bar :)

It doesn't matter to these people. They are so drunk on their feelings of superiority that they'll dismiss anyone with first-hand experience as an "apologist", a "foreigner" or whatever. They need to perform these mental gymnastics because they've been told all their life that "liberal democracy" is perfect, and anyone who challenges this notion is somehow deficient. To even consider a different point of view would bring their entire worldview crashing down, and so they will twist and turn your every word against you.