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Comment · 2 days ago
I'm responding to the push to rebrand it as Super Intelligence coming from people in power (not just the current occupant of the White House). Whether or not they believe it to be super human, they seem to want us to see it that way.
Comment · 2 days ago
How would we train those LLMs? Feed them binary executables along with their business requirement docs? Is the corpus of training data large enough to be effective? What happens when a new CPU architecture is developed? Where would the training data come from for the new machine code?
Comment · 2 days ago
Exactly, at what point do spec files become so precise that they are just another form of source code?
Comment · 2 days ago
It's almost like LLMs are another tool with strengths and weaknesses rather than a super human intelligence.
Comment · 3 days ago
As anyone in the Rust Belt can tell you, the average worker might experience higher wages over time, but the average worker is a statistical fiction, not a flesh and blood person.

Individuals and entire communities can live out the rest of their lives destitute and hopeless in the wake of changes that leave them behind. Things might be brighter for those who come after, but let's not pretend we're not doing real violence to those left behind.

Comment · 5 days ago
What other industries have enough vacancies to be filled by refugee software engineers without significant retraining or cuts in pay?
Comment · 8 days ago
My local utility has basically this program.
Comment · 8 days ago
What are the chances that it's deployed at the Canadian border?
Comment · 8 days ago
Comment · 8 days ago
Every individual has their own risk tradeoff calculation. People already risk death to cross the border, so it's not clear how much this would move the needle.
Comment · 10 days ago
Or reckless.
Comment · 10 days ago
I'd say that "eat less" and "make a lot of money" are both helpful, winning strategies but lack the tactical details necessary to bring them into effect. Agreed that it's not helpful to toss them out at someone as if implementation is easy.
Comment · 10 days ago
There's also a huge asymmetry between what clients know about each other and what the platforms know about the clients. Bot detection is only really feasible by the platforms.
Comment · 15 days ago
I'm old enough to remember the days before online porn, and all I can say is that sometimes a difference in quantity is so large that it becomes a difference in kind.
Comment · 15 days ago
+split screen videos

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