I wish people would stop treating college like job training. Study what you're most passionate about and interested in. Study whatever you would not regret studying, even if you never got a job related to that thing. Without "networking" I do think it will be very hard to find your first job related to CS for the foreseeable future (it's been like that before as well).

I tried AI auto-complete for maybe 6 months. I found that mistakes and hard to find bugs increased, actually lowering my productivity. I find that actually just typing everything (well, with traditional LSP) gives me more time to think about my code, the architecture, etc while I'm typing, leading to better results. "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

The problem is likely exponential. Technically, some optimization algorithms like genetic algorithms are "AI." I could see them also doing something like AlphaGo (predictive model + monte-carlo tree search).

I think my (and probably everyone else's) memory was better when you couldn't just look things up instantly.

That's a good point. I grew up in rural Ohio a couple decades ago, and confederate flags were quite popular. In my youth, I remember going to one guy's trailer to bring back some more beer, and every threshold in his trailer had a confederate flag. Many of the people in the little, almost all-white towns, were somewhat afraid of the somewhat bigger towns that had a decent black population. I still see similar things where I live now, where my older neighbors living outside of a major city, are somewhat afraid of the city. Curiously, I live in the actual south now, and don't see confederate flags nearly as often than I did in rural Ohio.

A lot of the far right is accelerationist. They've been hoping for a "race war" for many decades. Then there is the newer Effective Accelerationism/Network State/Dark Enlightenment stuff that the ultra wealthy seem to be into.

I think a lot of people keep jewelry as a hedge against currency crashes/bank collapse. I believe there are also federated cryptocurrencies that are probably more efficient that PoS (Ripple and Stellar; probably more too). Most cryptocurrencies are disinflationary, which causes other problems. Predictable inflation, even if somewhat high, is generally beneficial to capitalist economies (incentivizes people to invest/spend instead of hoarding).

Crypto crashed a few times, but recovered fairly quickly. A lot of companies went bankrupt. The crashes didn't severely affect a significant portion of the population. Most people and institutions had little exposure if any at all, and the crypto industry didn't really employ many people. Most people with a 401k are significantly exposed to AI due to top-heavy index funds like the SP 500. Not sure how exposed major financial institutions are.

I thought about it before (a Meta recruiter contacted me a couple years ago). The expected total compensation was insane. But, I would've likely had to move, I despise the company, and they were already doing stupid layoffs back then too, so decided not to move forward.

And as he mentioned in the video, it would eventually just make them better when they add the adversarial examples into their training set.

It's not a particularly dangerous job though. In the US it's ranked the 22nd most dangerous job. Delivery drivers are ranked 7th and farmers are ranked 8th. Logging is the most dangerous, followed by pilots and flight engineers.

Yeah, it's likely a more "traditional" image classification model (convnet or vision-transformer, not generative AI).