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Reasonable, but not necessarily true. 1. We don't understand what the motivations of our own AI are, let alone "typical" alien AI 2. Expanding AI might be better at and/or more inv…

How the hell did this person start their SWE career at the same time as me and come to feel they have an authoritative view on the state of the industry? Maybe it's because they're…

I asked it to explain how to use a certain Vue feature the other day which wasn't working as I hoped. It explained incorrectly, and when I drilled down, it started using React synt…

Part of why I don't use ChatGPT very much for work is that I don't want to feed significant amounts of proprietary code into it. Could be the one thing that actually gets me in tro…

That's even worse. They might not have the knowledge to realize the regex an AI gives them is bunk, or to debug it when it fails. I'd like to see some numbers on a tool like this. …

I read a few weeks ago here on HN about one large SAAS grinding to a halt because of a greedy selector in one line of regex. Not sure how people find old stories, it's lost to me n…

I'm (genuinely) curious what kind of code you write. I haven't tried Copilot and I haven't used ChatGPT very much, but I feel I would be pretty surprised if either of them made sig…

android changed the lock screen clock from HH:MM to HH MM it's a little stupid to be angry about but it's also pretty stupid to do in the first place.

> I think tech companies are (very) net positive for society There are certainly huge positives, but do you really feel something like Facebook is a net positive? Facebook, which i…

> Personally, I'd say that at least Google's Android department is currently headless and has no idea what the users want. The clock change, while minor, really put the nail in the…

Well there you go. You don't believe that an AI expressing dangerous ideas represents danger, and you don't believe that astronomical increases in AI abilities represent the advent…

Would it be innocuous of me o say that because we disagreed on something, you are a bad person? To say that I'm prepared to combat and destroy you to protect my worldview ? To say …

I feel the exact opposite is true. To me it's lazy to say that AGI can't be a threat simply because current AI has not harmed us yet (which is not even true, but that's another thr…

> Its reproducing human text, which is "blatantly misaligned". Go on any twitter thread on some reasonably controversial topic and you will find people telling others to kill thems…

I would not consider a scheduled physical/social/emotional activity to be a distraction. Is eating lunch a distraction? Is sleeping a distraction? If anything, I think Avicenna sup…

> We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today. When my team gets crunched, it's not usually because we can't writ…

> have to wonder at what point developers remember how anti-developer Microsoft used to be and potentially move away from their ecosystem I mean, any company can become hostile to …

That is a significant part of it, but there's more to the problem. Consider the simple task of looking up the definition of a word that you've been pondering. In pre-internet times…

It's not just you - it's a depressingly common thread. It's also wildly foolish, in my opinion. It makes absolutely no sense to me to take a snapshot of today's AI and invent a tra…

But long after the taming of horses, the invention of roadways and carts, and the proliferation of dense urban areas. "International" trade has surely always existed - we know peop…

> Neither have the concerns from AI alignment folk. Uh, yeah. We wouldn't be having these discussions if they had. There is no reason whatsoever to assume AI alignment is just goin…

Turns off 1% of potential users, attracts 10%. Net win.

I mean, I generally trust Mozilla + Mullvad a lot more than Spectrum. The only reason Spectrum wouldn't be selling or otherwise mishandling every bit of data about me they can is i…

I don't think working in a meat-packing plant is comparable to being used by influencer parents, but that doesn't mean the latter is small potatoes. They're very different situatio…

The common criticisms of Signal to me often come down to letting perfect be the enemy of good. Yes, I want a perfectly secure and private messaging app, but Signal is an incredibly…