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Right, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading all the comments taking this article seriously. I think AI has broken HN. The readership is so head-in-the-sand about AI that they…

He's lying.

Ed Zitron has predicted 16 of the last 0 AI bubble bursts... But more seriously, this has to do with DeepMind falling way behind the frontier in intelligence and cost per task. The…

You’ll note that Mr. Zitron’s analysis is based on unfounded assertions (API prices are the ‘real costs’ of tokens, and model providers are margin negative on subscriptions) and ou…

Of course. Everyone should have an ASI assistant that will happily tutor them, step-by-step, through synthesizing mass killing agents from household chemicals. Then the good guys c…

OP already answered why this time is different. Previous technology has never reduced the scarcity of general intelligence, which has been the exclusive domain of humans.

Superintelligent AI is more dangerous than a bioweapon. How, then, is this guardrail not addressing the most pertinent safety concern of all?

This reads like satire from a Slate commentary piece on Citizens United. I suppose we’re just waiting around until the majority of corporations in the US are formed and operated by…

Not necessarily contradictory. If all your peers are using AI, you might feel you have to use it too to avoid falling behind… especially with curved grade thresholds

I think you need a stronger analogy than "they both take questions and produce answers," especially since search engines don't answer questions.

In what sense is an LLM analogous (much less reducible to) a search engine?

I’m trying to discuss a scenario where the labor class becomes extraneous/unnecessary to the elite class, not an AI takeover.

You saw something kinda analogous in a movie once, therefore it's impossible? Am I the one basing my views off of science fiction?

The antidote to AI psychosis is not denial. We owe it to ourselves to be humble and consider the possibility that LLM technology leads to general intelligence. The capabilities of …

The cynical conclusion of AGI is that most humans will be enslaved or disposed of. We won't be forced to continue working for pay despite being slower, less intelligent, and more e…

So I can build my entire app in a WebKit wrapper and call it native? I think ‘native’ in this context is well-understood to mean eschewing web or cross-platform renderers

Electron sits on native rendering primitives. Do you suggest that every developer who wants rich interactive text in their app should write a text rendering engine from the ground …

So you’re trying to tell me that NOx and diesel particulates are not harmful to human health?

“AI is whatever hasn't been done yet” — Larry Tesler

>1. Scott Alexander is famous for writing about topics he knows little about. I'm glad to see he's found a subject he knows little about but so does everyone else. This is kinda la…

I understand and I don't care. Your personal interests as a diesel truck driver don't override others' interests in health and clean air

So what? It's anti-social behavior. What thought does the deleted diesel truck driver give to his fellow citizens, whose otherwise reliable respiratory systems are weakened and mad…

Reads like great satire to me.

My premise is that a vibe-coded app will be indistinguishable from a ‘hand-crafted’ one. So in that scenario the chemist wins, because the developer has no value to add. It is clea…

s/software engineer/secretary/ s/creating software/typing correspondence/ In a world where software programming/architecting is solved by AI, value will accrue to people with exper…