- Kubernetes is great - LLMs are incredibly useful - Lisps and functional programming aren't profound at all
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#22It's not my idea, but I strongly agree with the need for missile striking AI data centers to slow the creation of advanced AI. That said, it is the position I hold most strongly with the most uncertainty, and it's probably the only position that were I dictator I'd be very concerned I'm making a bad call.
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#24POSIX shell on *nix is a great language for doing lots of things that people usually do in much lower level languages.
It's very obvious that the reason for the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the US is because the US government constantly demonizes China and promotes anti-Chinese rhetoric and tacitly endorses anti-Chinese racism. There's also not much proof that China is committing genocide in Xinjiang.
Rust has extremely repulsive syntax, like C++ and Java had a baby.
General-purpose AI is unnecessary, but possibly cheaper than making many special-purpose AIs. Nobody will ever need AGI, and it's also not desirable.
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#25The biggie, of course, is that US exceptionalism is pushing the US down the wrong track. That will be the economic and probably military downfall of the US and will likely occur within the next 5-10 years. (You may call me 'Cassandra'.)
As a European it makes me sad to read this.
The US is exceptional in almost every way – morally, technologically, economically, politically.
While the US makes mistakes, and when it does its power means the consequences of those mistakes can be extreme, it's still overwhelmingly a force for good in a world that's becoming increasingly autocratic.
Don't let critics put you down. The world needs you, and I for one am glad America exists.
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#26The biggie, of course, is that US exceptionalism is pushing the US down the wrong track. That will be the economic and probably military downfall of the US and will likely occur within the next 5-10 years. (You may call me 'Cassandra'.)
Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny , likes to restate the idea of US exceptionalism as both the politics of inevitability and democracy is not something you are, it is something you do . Many people wrongly think that democracy is an inevitable result of capitalism, but if that's true then there is nothing extra you have to do to remain democratic other than participate in capitalism. If freedom is an inevitable re…
A problem in the US but not in many other parts of the world is that 'Socialism' is conflated with 'Communism' and is therefore bad. Most countries in the world are mixed-economies, with both Socialism and Capitalism.
Pure Capitalism is as bad as pure Communism.
Maybe another way for Americans to consider Socialism is that Socialism is "Capitalism with Compassion".
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#27AI will largely replace software developers very soon, along with most professions.
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#28AI will largely replace software developers very soon, along with most professions.
Agree. Although I see much more opposition to this idea on Reddit than on HN, the feeling I get is that people are desperately trying to undermine the idea of AI performing development tasks because they're afraid of it taking their livelihood away. This is unfortunate, because whether people resist or not in the end the pragmatism and economics will win out, so developers should be embracing this.
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#29AI will largely replace software developers very soon, along with most professions.
Agree. Although I see much more opposition to this idea on Reddit than on HN, the feeling I get is that people are desperately trying to undermine the idea of AI performing development tasks because they're afraid of it taking their livelihood away. This is unfortunate, because whether people resist or not in the end the pragmatism and economics will win out, so developers should be embracing this.
I'll believe it when I see it. Using any of the AI tools so far to help me program are worse than garbage. They produce code that looks like it works but has subtle hard-to-find bugs it in. Also, AI researchers have been saying we will all be out of a job for 75 years now.
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#30The biggie, of course, is that US exceptionalism is pushing the US down the wrong track. That will be the economic and probably military downfall of the US and will likely occur within the next 5-10 years. (You may call me 'Cassandra'.)
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