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Re: Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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Post by new_account_100 »

tomaytotomato wrote: post #269
beej71 wrote: post #257

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I'd phrase it like this: every time you delegate, you're letting that skill atrophy.

Strong disagree. How many times have you written a boring CRUD endpoint that returns a list of results? Half the stuff I lose time on is the boring boilerplate code (despite using frameworks). Now I can focus on the fun stuff like determining an optimal algorithm or even getting the LLM to walk me through using kubectl on the terminal Now I know some kubectl commands off by heart, which I didn't before. - kubectl get…

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Re: Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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Post by happytoexplain »

cj wrote: post #286
happytoexplain wrote: post #264

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It's very unclear what you're trying to say. Disliking something that is going to harm your future is going to harm you? You might as well say "don't care about your future". But if your dislike was for a different reason , it wouldn't harm you? Both implications seem nonsensical.

“I hate computers, so I refuse to use them” If AI becomes common place at work (I’d argue it already has), it clearly will hurt you if you boycott it out of fear or anger that the tech exists. It’s pretty simple

The context was a specific booing. Nobody said anything like your quote. This is a straw man in the context of this thread. I use AI every day, and I'd give anything for it to be destroyed (though if I had a magical wish, I'd make some more nuanced change, not just destroy it).

Re: Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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Post by d3rockk »

swed420 wrote: post #162
hansmayer wrote: post #135

The kids are alright ;)

For now. When the ramen noodles run out, how many will begrudgingly create a linkedin account and pretend to embrace AI while they fight for the remaining/dwindling job openings?

Question to your question: How many will actually get a job?

When the system fails to reward compliance, that begrudging conformity will eventually curdle into systemic disruption.

History has proven so time & time again.

Lock a massive class of highly educated, financially desperate young people out of the economy.. they won't just starve in silence. They organize unions, radicalize politics, and ultimately rewrite the rules of the game.

Re: Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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Post by Insimwytim »

bdnk1 wrote: post #274
rdtsc wrote: post #55

> “If you’d let me make this point, please —” Schmidt said amid boos. “The point I’d like to make is choose a diversity of perspectives, including the perspective of the immigrant who has so often been the person who came to this country and made it better. America is at its best when we are the country that ambitious people want to come to. Let us not lose that.” How does that tie in? You have to like AI because of…

New expansion, AI = artificial immigrant

Somebody said "alien" she thought they said "illegal alien" and signed up!

P.S. I just couldn't resist, sorry

Re: Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

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Post by wvbdmp »

nunez wrote: post #335
wvbdmp wrote: post #103

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Idk what people you interact with, but my personal sample of “normal people” post AI generated pics and videos in their WhatsApp status and adorn their homes with AI generated imagery for christmas. They may not actively use LLMs or even know what they are, but they’re satisfied with Google’s AI overview and they love using voice assistants. These aren’t people from any particular sphere I sought out or which self-se…

> Idk what people you interact with, but my personal sample of “normal people” post AI generated pics and videos in their WhatsApp status and adorn their homes with AI generated imagery for christmas. They might not know that those assets are AI-generated. It's easy to not know if you don't have this stuff (somehow) constantly shoved into your face. I had a sticker on my water bottle from a brewery for several days.…

For the christmas decorations, yes, but the imagery I meant is mostly custom, apart from some shared memes. Images and videos of themselves or their dogs in some style or doing something or being somewhere. Some of these honestly betray some mental unwellness if you ask me, but the point is, people eat this shit up and see it as harmless fun. Which it is, of course, in the same way many things are if you ignore the externalities.

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Post by dang »

new_account_100 wrote: post #349
coldpie wrote: post #287

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I do, too, but a throwaway account busting into a conversation and screaming "everyone listen to me, me, me!" is a bit obnoxious, you know?

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We don't do that. We do ban accounts for egregiously breaking HN's guidelines, as you've already done repeatedly with this account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

eooekwe wrote: post #343
LogicFailsMe wrote: post #339

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Well, I believe we have officially entered the find out stage... And I love how easily triggered some people are on here by saying anything bad about the Kash Patel of the tech industry. Why can't we all just quietly stop asking his opinion on anything? When's the last time he wrote a single line of code? I'm guessing 30 to 40 years and he's the expert on the future of software engineering? Oh noze, triggered again.…

There was a dude Peter thiel was mingling with who died in strange circumstances. Another buried case.

I knew another Peter Thiel adjacent who offed himself (not the one I think you're referring to here) over Trump losing in 2020. Curious.

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Post by swed420 »

d3rockk wrote: post #354
swed420 wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For now. When the ramen noodles run out, how many will begrudgingly create a linkedin account and pretend to embrace AI while they fight for the remaining/dwindling job openings?

Question to your question: How many will actually get a job? When the system fails to reward compliance, that begrudging conformity will eventually curdle into systemic disruption. History has proven so time & time again. Lock a massive class of highly educated, financially desperate young people out of the economy.. they won't just starve in silence. They organize unions, radicalize politics, and ultimately rewrite…

Drones and robot killer dogs a la Back Mirror will keep everybody in check until they die an early preventable death from being lied to about COVID, etc.

History might rhyme, until it doesn't, due to paradigm shifts like these.

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