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> understands people and knows what people need > does not understand the concept of [incredibly common psychological problem]

I think if you just look at what people like e.g. Sam Altman are doing it's clear that they don't believe everything that they're saying regarding AI safety. > nearly 100% of code …

There's no need to tack on "because the wiki is open". That's still just part of a solution seeping into the statement of the problem.

I don't think this means "most concerns aren't valid", it's more "people aren't always good at vocalizing their underlying concerns, and instead treat a proposed solution as the co…

Those sound like proposed solutions, not the underlying concerns. Motivating concerns here might be things like "our wiki will be full of inaccurate info", "people will unknowingly…

I don't know that you can establish objectively if someone is a good writer. He's an acclaimed, award-winning writer, sure.

Yeah I think the lesson is that specific suggestions for what to do aren't as helpful as just hearing how someone else experienced your work, and then drawing your own conclusions …

How can you tell the difference?

I don't think parliamentary systems help the legislature remain effective, since they're still elected in roughly the same way, no? But yeah, it prevents an ineffective legislature…

> if enough people want to willing vote in a corrupt president Why do people do this though? Maybe it's inevitable, but I think there was a lot of pent up frustration with the gove…

> Although [touch typing] refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys ... the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch typing that involves pl…

Say more.

Craft, in coding or anything else, exists for a reason. It can bleed over into vain frivolity, but craft helps keep the quality of things high. Craft often inspires a quasi-religio…

A "deep" tool that fully automates fairly specific tasks works this way. LLMs are more of a "shallow", general tool that can partially help with lots of different things, but none …

If the 1% is just a bit less efficient with the new tech, sure, but it's different if the 1% means your car crashes.

Sure -- I think articles like this are a warning that the skills we're losing are likely _not_ so completely supplanted by AI that they'll soon be irrelevant.

A car that can self-drive 100% of the time is a new tool that could make driving an obsolete skill. A car that can self-drive successfully 99% of the time is dangerous because it t…

Big Tech is not the same thing as all technology.

I'm sure some companies do this poorly but there's lots of places where code review happens on every PR and there's processes and systems in place to make sure it's an easy process…

>sure, they coined the term “move fast and break things” Yeah I'm aware, but as any company gets larger and has more and more traffic (and money) dependent on their existing system…

There's a lot of software in between Air Traffic Controller and Facebook. And honestly would Meta be okay with Instagram or Facebook going down even for just a few minutes? I'd thi…

Yeah in many places we had two humans with context on every line, and now we're advocating going to zero?

How do you know which lines you need to review and which you don't? Does it feel archaic because LLMs are clearly producing output of a quality that doesn't require any review, or …

Yeah performance optimization is potentially another good area for LLMs to shine, if you already have a sufficiently comprehensive test suite, because no functionality is changing.…

> The best experiences I have are those where I can describe what I want done with details. But that's the hard part! You can only eke out moderate productivity gains by automating…