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If you're going to be reading the code you might as well write it by hand instead of using AI.

EU bourgeoisie invests in US tech

Crypto guys are in the business of grifting magic beans to rubes. They are mostly interested in the aesthetics of these technologies. Using an academic programming language gives t…

> Are expectations way too high in the near term for tech companies and all of the crap that they’re talking? 100% totally agree. This is what people mean when they say it's a bubb…

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Why would you need any of those listed capabilities these days? Just generate them with 100x AGI

Well, yeah, most social media posts that contain a list or a table these days are ai slop.

I believe a lot of the enthusiasm we had at the start of the smartphone age is also now gone. The phone is now a boring device made for scrolling and running apps that are mandator…

Where would those European customers go? China? Africa?

Programmers do woodworking in their free time and programming at the assembly line in the crud factory.

This forum is full of libertarians that might view bribes and taxes as synonyms.

I don't think the data support the conclusion that contraceptives are the main driver behind the decline in fertility. Contraceptives have been available for a long time and fertil…

Even with extensive support and subsidies from the state, having children is an economic loss for the individual in today's society. Back in agricultural society, having children w…

Yes, I might need to bet the farm on the IPO to make it

I do agree bigly. Calling what is basically a superhuman brain inside a computer just a "token predictor" is peak thinkslop.

You are exactly right! People do not find the writing obnoxious, they are backwards technophobes getting brought down by their superstitions.

You're not supposed to read it, just like you're not supposed to write anything anymore. Claude can read and write more than any human. We just lean back and relax now.

Testing is obsolete in the AI age. I just one shot every problem with claude, it never makes a mistake.

This site is the gathering place of the biggest AI zealots there are. If someone posted that they have stopped talking and started communicating with the world solely through a cam…

That was then. Today the stock is trading at a lower price than in May 2024. Google is up over 100% in that time.

Biggest fan like in the Eminem song Stan

People can't even be arsed to vote in elections. Nobody is going to be burning anything. There's Netflix to watch and doom to scroll.

Then they all pump more every year

There is danger in people using a token predictor like it is some all-knowing magic computer oracle.

Isn't AI safety mostly a marketing thing? Like, we employ these safety people to make sure our chat bot does not turn into Skynet, implying the chat bot could turn into Skynet i.e.…