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I feel this was already a severe problem pre-AI. From what I hear from my partner (in university administration), nearly half the students demand accomodations for disabilities. Ma…

I think you have the right observation but the wrong conclusion. The appeal of digital systems, at a social level, is that they can transmit information accurately for almost no ma…

That's fair. It starts easy, then gets difficult.

> the answer was what the Unabomber proposed the whole time. The Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski) killed 3 people and injured 23 others across 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995 It's …

Firstly, this generation of AI is not going to take away all jobs Secondly, we already know what happens when sectors face mass unemployment from the 1980s, when steel and coal wor…

Starcardian also died this year - killed in a road accident whilst cycling

We already have human intelligence. Creating new humans is easy (and fun) The only reason to emulate human intelligence is to capture it, exploit it, and reduce the negotiating pow…

Wonderful. And these people call themselves utilitarians too. God / Buddha / Allah / Batman, save me from their kindness!

That is an absurd position to take. Nobody benefits by having less time to adapt to changes in their employability I am not calling you out personally here, but this comment bears …

Observability and operability are just not the same thing as being able to reason about the software. You need both You can't capture the full range of behaviours and edge cases un…

Tracing and o11y are a poor sibling to static analysis. > This is complete lack of experience on the authors part Actually I'm going to turn the accusation back on yourself: if you…

- Too verbose, too much noise e.g. error handling. - Type system is too concrete, can't express sets or unions. - Not much support for functional programming except passing closure…

You are clearly very angry about this. Codeberg wants to protect their hosting from the large volume of AI projects. What do you think the right solution is here?

If I said "AI enthusiasts" would that feel like less of an attack? > I think you're being dishonest in your framing Asking without malice: why are you telling me this? This is an o…

I want to ask this in good faith Why do the very vocal "AI people" online have this thing where they are simultaneously: - proclaiming their thing to be inevitable and massive and …

I agree, I suspect that when we say "oh, I don't need to know this", what we really mean is we have that unpleasant feeling behind our eyes that says this is not going to gratify m…

Goedecke seems to me like a Professor Pangloss type character, explaining to executives in prestige tech orgs (like his employer GitHub) why we should trust and respect the decisio…