taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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Putting idiots in charge is certainly one of the leading causes of war in human history.

I am not scared, well, except scared that I will have to listen to AI scam BS for the next decade the same way I had to listen to blockchain/cryptocurrency scam BS for the last decade.

It is not that I haven't tried the tools either. They just produce extremely horrible results every single time.

“Why are we paying a human being a six figure salary when an AI is 90% as good and we pay once for the entire company?”

And if it actually was 90% as good that would be a valid question, in reality however it is more like 9% as good with occasional downwards spikes towards 0.9%.

Lets be realistic here, everything from MAGA dominated states is small fry, they are not exactly the most productive states.

If you spend 75% of your time writing code you are in a highly unusual coding position. Most programmers spend a very high percentage of their time understanding the problem domain and on other parts of figuring out requirements and translating them into something resembling some sort of semi-formal understanding of what the program actually needs to do. The low level detailed code writing is very rarely a bottleneck.

What nobody realized is that the "art" in "art of the deal" was one of those modern "monkey threw feces at the wall" type of art pieces.

That is one expensive AAA battery.

The error rate for human employees for the kind of errors AI makes is much, much lower. Humans make mistakes that are close to the intended task and have very little chance of being completely different. AI does the latter all the time.

Can you prove that he makes any important decisions?

Cooking meals seems like a good first step towards teaching AI programming. After all the recipe analogy is ubiquitous in programming intro courses. /s

AI is pretty good at spouting bullshit but it doesn't have the same giant ego that human CEOs have so resources previously spent on coddling the CEO can be spent on something more productive. Not to mention it is a lot less effort to ignore everything an AI CEO says.

Honestly, AI coding assistants (as in the ones working like auto-complete in the code editor) are very close to useless unless maybe you work in one of those languages like Java that are extremely verbose and lack expressiveness. I tried using a few of them for a while but it got to the point where I forgot to turn them on a few times (they do take up too much VRAM to keep running when not in use) and I didn't even notice any productivity problems from not having them available.

That said, conversational AI can sometimes be quite useful to figure out which library to look at for a given task or how to approach a problem.

Keep worrying about entirely hypothetical scenarios of an AGI fucking over humanity, it will keep you busy so humanity can fuck over itself ten times in the meantime.

On the other hand that is just money, at least there is no real vendor-lock-in there yet, though I am sort of surprised the concept of different currencies per payment company hasn't occurred to them yet outside of gaming.

prevents it from retaliatory actions against human rights violations

They can't retaliate if someone violates human rights?

Labor is a human putting in work. Fully automated production of goods and services is already a thing for some goods and services today and some others have a much, much larger automation component than they had historically.

Don't confuse the wealth distribution mechanism (getting paid for labor) with the actual work itself.

The real question isn't how we structure our society if some extremely far-fetched scenario happens. The real question is how we structure our society right now that is already failing most of society the way it is structured right now.

Labor is not a necessity for people to survive, in fact most people would consider a place where their job wasn't required a utopia in terms of the enjoyment they get out of the actual labor. The real question is about wealth distribution, not labor.

It skirts around governmental add’l requirements for driverless cars by being open-source and saying the users choose to install their own software, so it can avoid legal issues

This would never work here in Germany where we have actual safety requirements for allowing cars on the roads.

meanwhile, the world becomes more and more corrupt because no one is fighting crime.

While misleading the public into voting against their own interest because they are aware of rising crime rates even though the kind of crime they are scared of has been on the decline for decades.

FOSS die-hards may not agree, but this kind of threading-the-needle can be done well, and honestly, IMHO. A good example is the content-management framework Directus, which essentially makes it free to use in most cases, unless you make more than $5 million in finances per year, at which point you need to start paying for it. Not purely open source, but it throws FOSS folks a bone by making it so that versions of the software that are more than three years old revert to the General Public License.

This has nothing to do with being a FOSS die-hard. Three year old versions are basically completely useless if you plan to run anything resembling a secure website.

Meanwhile a license that is attached to the amount of income of the legal entity (company, organization,...) instead of the project is never going to be popular because those values can easily change by reorganizations that have very little to do with the actual project.