I think I posted this the last time this topic came up, but Ed Zitron’s article about how business idiots run things despite not really understanding the users or product is pretty solid. Long, but solid. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

It’s all emotions. Facts don’t matter.

There’s still going to be production, and I don’t think we should continue with the capitalist class extracting value and making bad decisions

If you introduce basic income without addressing that, you’ll still have all the enshittification

Basic income seems like an obvious solution.

Many people would pursue happy lives. Do some art. Do some gardening.

You’d also want to have like public housing or something so you don’t have parasitic landlords and homelessness.

My understanding is the most “useful” thing a CEO typically does is schmooze with other rich assholes. A lot of companies need funding, and a lot of funding is handed out based on vibes. A good CEO makes friends with the assholes handing out money. That’s hard to replace with AI, probably.

On the other hand, CEOs routinely make stupid decisions. Maybe cutting that out makes up for the loss in funding opportunities?

Also this capitalist hellscape sucks. labor should unite instead of letting business idiots take most of the value they create.

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16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

18 “Which ones?” he inquired.

Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,’[a] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]”

20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”

21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

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Don’t see a lot of rich assholes talking about this part of the bible. (Matthew 19:16-22)

I wonder if it’s exceeded the max length and caused a poorly handled error

The other day I woke up to a bunch of text notifications from people, and my first thought was “Did it happen? Did someone shoot him??”

No, it was a bunch of unrelated personal life stuff. But for one dreamy moment…

I guess it’s like the difference between a parasite that doesn’t kill the host, and one that does. The current breed looks like it’s going to kill the host.

I canceled my subscription. In part because fuck using AI to hurt labor, but also unemployment. Capitalists want us to spend spend spend, but they don’t want to give us any money to spend.

They dont usually have benefits (eg: health insurance) or time off

This reminds me of the new vector for malware that targets “vibe coders”. LLMs tend to hallucinate libraries that don’t exist. Like, it’ll tell you to add, install, and use jjj_image_proc or whatever. The vibe coder will then get an error like “that library doesn’t exist” and "can’t call jjj_image_proc.process()`.

But you, a malicious user, could go and create a library named jjj_image_proc and give it a function named process. Vibe coders will then pull down and run your arbitrary code, and that’s kind of game over for them.

You’d just need to find some commonly hallucinated library names

The GOP really is the worst of us, and removing it would do wonders. The Democrats aren’t perfect (or even good half the time), but they’re like herpes compared to the gop’s aggressive cancer.

Do the needs stay satisfied, or is it going to be like 2 years later we have billionaires and starvation again?

If there is a civil war, I’m sure the enemies of the US would rejoice. It’s like that onion article that’s like “al queda decides to sit back and watch US destroy itself”.

But aside from that, I hope the conservatives lose. And I hope after they lose, we learn from history. Don’t just let them come crawling back into power like after the first civil war. The ultra rich and their lackeys need to be removed from power, and kept out.

Then again, the 14th amendment should disqualify Trump and a bunch of the republicans, and that doesn’t seem to matter.

The conservative mindset seems to be “What’s good for me right now?”. The law is good when it hurts their enemies, and it’s unfair when it hurts them. A policy is good when it benefits them, and bad when it benefits someone they don’t like. They are essentially toddlers. We should treat their ideas as seriously as we’d treat a two year old’s ideas. Yes dear that’s a really interesting idea to replace all the toilets in the building with monster trucks, but we’re not going to do that.

Many people have found that using LLMs for coding is a net negative. You end up with sloppy, vulnerable, code that you don’t understand. I’m not sure if there have been any rigorous studies about it yet, but it seems very plausible. LLMs are prone to hallucinating, so you’re going to get it telling you to import libraries that don’t exist, or use parts of the standard library that don’t exist.

It also opens up a whole new security threat vector of squatting. If LLMs routinely try to install a library from pypi that doesn’t exist, you can create that library and have it do whatever you want. Vibe coders will then run it, and that’s game over for them.

So yeah, you could “rigorously check” it but a. all of us are lazy and aren’t going to do that routinely (like, have you used snapshot tests?), b. it’s going to anchor you around whatever it produced, making it harder to think about other approaches, and c. it’s often slower overall than just doing a good job from the start.

I imagine there are similar problems with analyzing large amounts of text. It doesn’t really understand anything. To verify it’s correct, you would have to read the whole thing yourself anyway.

There are probably specialized use cases that are good- I’m told AI is useful for like protein folding and cancer detection- but that still has experts (I hope) looking at the results.

To your point, I think people are trying to use these LLMs for things with definite answers, too. Like if I go to google and type in “largest state in the US” it uses AI. This is not a good use case.

That’s really not the same thing at all.

For one, no one knows what the weather will be like tomorrow. We have sophisticated models that do their best. We know the capital of New Jersey. We don’t need a guessing machine to tell us that.

You shouldn’t trust anything the LLM tells you though, because it’s a guessing machine. It is not credible. Maybe if you’re just using it for translation into your native language? I’m not sure if it’s good at that.

If you have access to the internet, there are many resources available that are more credible. Many of them free.

You don’t need AI for people to learn. I’m not sure what’s left of your point without that assertion.