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I think a better way to think about this might not be that this chatbot isn't dangerous, but the fact that this was developed under capitalism, an an organization that's ultimate goal is profitability, means that the incentives of the folks who built it (hella $) are baked into the underlying model, and there's a glut of evidence that profit-aligned entities (like businesses) are not necessarily (nor, I would argue, /can they be/) human-aligned.

This is the same as the facial-recognition models that mis-identify folks of color more frequently than white folks or the prediction model that recommended longer jail/prison sentences for black folks than for white folks who committed the same crime.

It is ok for one to not be social if one doesn't want to be social.

I think about this a lot. Of course, on paper it's a terrible idea to pay off a mortgage early (assuming a reasonably low interest rate). On the other hand, my mortgage is my only really significant monthly expense and not having that monthly expense would reduce my dependence on a moderately high developer salary and I'd feel more capable of either changing careers or being self-employed.

Yes and no. They're "interesting lines of research" except when they're in your field, then they're foundations or anchor points for your work, past, present, and future.

I'm not going to disagree that a lot gets lost in translation between academic article and the lay-person who hears a story on the nightly news, but I don't think gatekeeping academic research is the answer, but rather more emphasis on critical thinking and critical reading.

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Holy cow. That was awesome. Thank you for sharing.

Makes one think what the internet could be like in an alternate reality or something.

I'd like to hear more about the bizarre interview, if you're willing to elaborate.

> You can even just run multiple copies of the monolith with feature flags to enable/disable different parts of the code.

I can't tell if this is facetious. I hope it is.

This is a true loss.

Yeah, I think this speaks to a much broader problem with how we attribute value in our society.

Monetary value has no bearing on actual value. For example, a smartphone is only $1000 because some people were paid $0 to produce it. Did those people not produce value? Take a fast food hamburger, it only costs $1 because it's not real meat (mostly), and the person who heated it up is being paid a wage with which they cannot afford reasonable housing and healthy food.

> some idealistic vision of how the world ought to be

Yeah, I think it's a tragedy that we have constructed a society where everyone doesn't have basic needs met. I think it's a bigger tragedy that the alternative to the current system is considered idealistic. You don't have to agree with me, but if nobody talks about the ways that things could be, not the way that they are, then things will never change.

I'm not sure I follow your last paragraph. Are you suggesting that minimum wages are bad because it sets a minimum for employers to pay as though without a minimum wage they would pay a rate more in line with value? If folks earning a minimum wage today, in a world with a minimum wage, can't afford basic living expenses, would you expect more people to afford basic living expenses without a minimum wage? If so, can you justify that? If not, what are you optimizing for?

> A raise below inflation is a pay cut.

A couple years ago my previous company cut the standard yearly raise from 3% to 2%. When inflation went crazy during the pandemic I started casually dropping the quoted line into every conversation with coworkers I could. I even threw out some feelers around organizing but I was always laughed off by someone or other.

I'll add to that: I love redux and most of the complaints or concerns that I've heard about using redux (from a few teams) have been misunderstandings of how to integrate redux into an existing application or an application design. I think this has mostly come from junior-level folks (independent of title, there are a lot of non-junior devs who can't integrate new patterns into their "senior" level understanding of code, but I digress) and folks who don't work on the front end much (or ever). I was one of those folks until I started a side-project that used redux and I had to implement it in a greenfield project and had the liberty to refactor as I progressed and my mental-model "updated" to integrate the new framework.

Yes it is.

Why should the minimum wage not provide a sufficiently secure life for the worker?

I say this all the time: if you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage you can't afford to be in business.