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Enjoy being a slave to a machine, I guess?

Computers are tools that exist to serve humans. Humans should never be asked to become subservient to computers. Your suggestion is ludicrous and risible.

> I can't even think of any good faith motivation for doing this, other than to cover up the shortage and to keep the public pacified Yes

I asked for evidence and you accuse me of "turning to emotions". Honestly I don't know what to say. Good luck to you.

> It's pretty straightforward to give a modern agentic system will and desire That is your will and desire. They are following your instructions. There is no "intelligence" there. …

> We’re past the point where there’s any concrete intellectual capability that AIs can’t demonstrate How about "will" and "desire"? These seem like things an actual intelligence wo…

Interesting that you think there is no ideology involved in that kind of politics writ small.

"You only disagree with me because you are insecure" This is not a convincing argument.

> I think there is a lot of overlap between politics and ideology What is politics without ideology?

People can just choose to ignore questions they don't feel like answering for whatever reason.

> obviously If it was obvious I don't think there would be disagreement.

Are you claiming they have AGI or are "close" to it?

I live in Japan and developed an allergy to cedar pollen after I came. I started sublingual immunotherapy (a pill of concentrated pollen you dissolve under your tongue) three years…

Instagram makes it extremely frustrating without an account. Many times I have checked a small business's opening times on Google Maps only to arrive and find them closed... the on…

I use YouTube on Firefox (with uBlock Origin) almost exclusively and this has not been my experience.

In what way is it crippled?

That's exactly the "dependency cooldowns" we have right now that the author argues against.

To visually compare characters you need to map them to glyphs; what is the glyphset and how much of Unicode does it actually cover?

It only seems to work for some subset of CJK characters. I haven't been able to figure out why some work and some don't. For instance 叱 and 明 both seem to fail in the same way: U+1…

I do see a handful of people using non-ASCII identifiers in their code, but that's rare. Much more common is explanatory comments, docstrings, etc. in the local language. To requir…

That’s great for you. Isn’t feasible for software development by teams that are native in a language with a non-Latin script.

> If, in the context of cooperating together, you say "should I go ahead?" and they just say "no" with nothing else, most people would not interpret that as "don't go ahead". wat

> The "why" is kinda sketchy It seems pretty clear that the "why" is "because it's there"

How is the author the problem? What is the problem, in your view?

Creator of Orgro here. > they only support a tiny subset of the format I think Orgro's parser[0] is pretty complete at this point. If you can find an Org syntax that Orgro doesn't …