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People have been going nuts all throughout recorded history, that's really nothing new. The only scary thing is that they have ever more power to change the world and influence oth…

> you would think they would put your name in the system prompt They probably do, along with "pretend to not have any personal information about the user".

Don't forget the "nature partner journals", which people also call (and cite as) "Nature XY"...

> labor is what they most have to offer, so that is what they will trade What will they eat? Whose land might they be allowed to grow their food on?

Also a lot of errors would be called "typos", not errors. Such as some edge cases missing in the theorem statement which technically makes the theorem false. As long as there's a s…

Have you ever read the (full) text of any bill that has been passed during the last couple of decades? How about reading all of them? So are you proposing people vote on them witho…

What does it mean "to make filling out your taxes"??

> should also be caught in code reviews Assuming they even have code reviews - in your experience, in a situation where the person writing the code didn't check if it already exist…

> models deployed in critical applications such as finance, law, and healthcare. We went really quickly from "obviously noone will ever use these models for important things" to "w…

Most musicians (i.e. non-famous ones) get most of their income from teaching students. I don't think such a model makes sense for developers (though who knows, maybe at some time i…

Addiction is a matter of degree. There's a bunch of polls where a large majority of people strongly agree that "they spend too much time on social media". Are they addicts? Are the…

> We've been through this before in the 70s-90s. What do you mean?

> if people thought social media was bad, they wouldn’t use it. Do you think Heroin is good?

Would you say Log4j is an internal or an external dependency?

> interfaces You mean obsolete and subtly wrong comments buried among preprocessor directives in some far-upstream header files?

I'd guess that's mostly because C has been around long enough to be chosen for it and people who are into that kind of thing don't urgently need more than one contest, regardless o…

Agreed. Does any of that contradict something I wrote?

Objections: - it's possible to transfer knowledge, as demonstrated by the fact that human civilization exists. It's not always easy, doesn't always succeed, and reading is a part o…

Well, if you're using GRPC anyway , and have the protocol buffers already ... It's hard to resist the temptation after a few hours of installing broken package versions. Incidental…

Set them up, each in its own container, and use GRPC to communicate between them... (Not even kidding, I've seen people do this)

This sounds very educated but I don't really see what it has to do with the comment you're responding to (or with AI).