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Capitalism doesn't solve for society, it solves for capital.

There is no profit in making the world a better place.

And likely those statements will not change anytime soon in the foreseeable future.

they got what they wanted and their propaganda worked

So far.

Given that part of my job is evaluating applicants' ability to do the job, and given that LLMs are very good at answering the sort of questions many people ask in interviews, AI is making my job significantly harder.

If someone could make a prompt that actually made an LLM write good code, I wouldn't have nearly as much of an issue.

"good catch! That's a very astute observation. Here's a bunch of paragraphs explaining (incorrectly) how you're wrong!"

Just like next quarter's finance numbers for USA will coincidentally just all the great stuff Trump has achieved!

Look at other corrupt governments and you can see some even more startlingly disfunctional infrastructure.

to purposefully distract with gays, immigrants so they could keep giving out blowies to billionaires

Close. Conservatism is collapsing the United States of America into irrelevance.

Eastern European born American guy who is living at eastern Europe right now.

I don't know about china, but a lot of things in the country of my birth are a lot better than USA. Energy grid and energy pricing is one of those.

I got back to country of my birth because my parent got dementia. I'm seriously considering permanently staying here. It has its drawbacks. But a lot of things are also a lot better.

But for a few fleeting moments we did create a lot of value for the shareholders. Totally worth it to flush it all down the drain.

But knowing what's real and what's bullshit is an absolutely essential prerequisite for progress.

The telling lies part is not good, but I think the dream of AI is a servant (or slave) with unlimited potential that can solve, until now, unsolvable problems. Cure for cancer, sure that will be $10k a pill. Eternal life? Sure that will be 1 million dollars a years for all eternity. Robot army to protect you? Top of the list.
Question I have is, is the AI we see the same AI the teck bros see? Is there a public interface that is made to appear a little buffoonish so the masses can laugh it off, but the real interface is much much better?

Because it was a race for simulating more deadly nukes till now. But that got silly, so they need something new to compare their pp.

I really don't understand this perspective. I truly don't.

You see a new technology with flaws and just assume that those flaws will always be there and the technology will never progress.

Like. Do you honestly think this is the one technology that researchers are just going to say "it's fine as-is, let's just stop improving it"?

You don't understand the first thing about how it works but people like you are SO certain that the way it is now is how it will always be, and that because there are flaws developing it further is pointless.

I just don't get it.

Further, fear mongering about China's data center/powergrid infrastructure superiority is also the PERFECT excuse techbros need to rationalize building data centers in parts of the US that are in desperate shortage of water for human beings and with precarious electrical grids that are ready to fail in the middle of the next heatwave.

The US is essentially in a second Civil War and this will be one of the main methods in which people are killed, i.e. purposefully setting up the conditions for people to die in a heat wave and have no water so they are desperate... and the only way people in the US are going to stomach it is if they have been truly convinced they have to accept these brutal conditions "because we are hopelessly behind China and we can't afford to stop building data centers!!".

I just want anyone else to win. All the things. I want US Hegemony to end. At any cost. If that's AI then good.

I hate this country the way Saw Gerrera hates the empire.

I hope we loose it so we can get humbled. But if we loose, knowing how we are, we'll likely invent a reason to go to war and steal their talent.

I have found one use for generative AI that I have liked. I've thrown it at aggravating searches for me.

Use case example: I stopped traveling across the country and got a job at one location. It's across the city. I'd like to find an electric bike to get there. The location is 12 miles away as the crow flies. Unfortunately my city is absolute crap at any kind of non-car transportation so it needs to get myself up to 40 mph at minimum. Honestly if I'm going that speed, I'd like a scooter like the a burgman. Trouble is "scooter" runs the gambit from competing to motorcycles like the Burgman, to little ones like the Vespa, and stand up ones like you see dumped all over cities downtown. Electric motorcycles start getting into "I might as well buy a new motorcycle" prices.

Alright, I do a search for electric scooter, I get all standing scooters. I've attempted changes and maybe find a sitting one that is made for not getting over 25 mph. Finally getting frustrated I remembered one of my younger coworkers talking about using AI for searches, fine... ten minutes later I had a series of results of bike that fit my criteria as well as small little dealers across the city that DuckDuckGo nor Google bothered to pull up, and that's with me specifically asking for links because I didn't want made up bullshit.

Now if we get to the point of AI becoming overlords, I'm sure I'm going to be among the first against the wall because the first couple searches of it not getting things right involved me calling it a dumbshit so...

So yea... that's my territory of using an AI, it's a better search engine for weird esoteric shit... I kind of wish it wasn't an app or a website because if it was a physical device I'd have it next to a hammer which I guess shows how much I trust it.

I understand you're frustrated about the AI race. That's an excellent point, and it deserves careful consideration. First, in considering the AI race we need to consider what AI is...

AI will move past LLMs

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