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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs

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Re: The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs

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Post by gordonhart »

sebg wrote: post #11
gordonhart wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why post an archive link for a static site with no ads or subscriptionware?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779352

I see, thanks. Strange times for internet censorship in the west.

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Post by techteach00 »

elcapitan wrote: post #2

Is there a way back to calling human beings human beings and not "meat"? Or is the sociopathic Jeffrey Dahmer undertone now the new normal?

There has always been a subset of highly technical people in the software world who are anti-organic. They dislike the "meatspace" and humans and relate more with machines and software.

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Post by fHr »

elcapitan wrote: post #2

Is there a way back to calling human beings human beings and not "meat"? Or is the sociopathic Jeffrey Dahmer undertone now the new normal?

Meat pupeteering, has nothing to do with Jeffrey just state of slowly getting pushed into doing 95% of devwork with Agents.

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Post by nemomarx »

dsmurrell wrote: post #10

"Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act" - without my VPN... do you know why?

Geo blocking the UK satisfies any age verification, otherwise the site owner would have to check if their content is considered adult in the UK and implement something.

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Post by nonameiguess »

This is part 9 of a 10-part series. The author has posted every chapter to Hacker News every day for the past 9 days. Every time four of the first five or so comments are:

Someone noting it is unavailable in the UK.

Someone posting an archive.is link.

Someone asking why the above posted an archive link to a static site.

An answer that it is because the content is otherwise unavailable in the UK.

Do we really need to see this every single time?

I realize I am also not adding to the real discussion now as well, but Jesus Christ, this is irritating. Can we get a new rule that an author posting their own content, knowing it is unavailable in the UK, has to post their own archive link and explain why they're doing so as part of the submission?

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Post by ai_critic »

I think that this is an interesting attempt at taxonomy, but it's a bit on the magical thinking end (and I say this as somebody that does a good amount of what's described as the incanter role). It's a combination of the author's previous witchy aesthetic (see his excellent "ing the technical interview" series) and progressive labor politics (which are asymptotically doomed in the current automation push).

The biggest failure of imagination, I think, is the assumption we'd use humans for most (or *any) of these jobs--for example, the work of the haruspex is better left to an LLM that can process the myriad of internal states (this is the mechanical interpretation field).

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