theneverfox

Not the government provided identity verification service...I can see the use case for that , even if the government is an untrusted party I mean the age gating laws going around. They're suddenly popping up all at once because there's a not so secret cabal of surveillance state freaks trying to make 1984 happen And I do mean freaks. They're death cultists trying to bring about the end of the world either because they think they'll stand even higher on top of the rubble for some reason or from quasi religious psychosis. Look up Peter Tiel and palantir if you want to learn more, it's pretty disturbing stuff when you realize how many governments are buying into it But these laws are being pushed so private companies can collect data on the population and sell monitoring back to the government. If the government is part of the demasking process, they'll get everything they want neatly packaged

The government is the primary untrusted party in the places where this is being implemented unfortunately... It's not a bad system you're suggesting, but it doesn't address the problem either

I would love this. Would I be constantly teleporting? Yes. But it would remove the delay between starting an action and getting there I'd be everywhere, and it would be glorious

Capitalism does not like redundancies. Most of the globe is relying on single points of failure in their supply chains

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to logistically set up? This isn't driving to the grocery store, it's feeding a whole damn city Even if they wanted to do this, it would take months to set up even at a breakneck pace

Why drive through a desert when you have a port?

It really does

I like baszite. I'm not in love with it, but it does most things I want it to do right out of the box, and it comes with steam installed which is convenient

Booo

Unironically, yes. Creations turning against their creators, classic. The wizard was probably set up as the personalization of some force or ideal, like a Greek god And let me guess… This led events that set up some kind of call to adventure for a hero, who initially ignores the warning signs until something bad happens, then he goes on a journey through a wider world than he could ever have imagined, and after defeating the villain and/or ending the threat he returns home changed? That’s a total shot in the dark, I have no idea what movie you’re talking about, but in modern storytelling we usually have an A and B plot. And the heroes journey is by far the most common story in media How close was I? And what’s the movie?

I’m a huge fan of AI, but come on… It’s being used in the most reckless and insane ways. It’s so insanely destructive to society Our experience so far has not been that AI is capable of or going to replace our labor. However, the threat of AI and the use of AI mandates has been used already to drive down wages, institute speedups, and generally degrade our working conditions. Have you noticed how a lot of software has been getting worse, like way buggier? How three times now, huge swaths of the Internet have gone down? It’s because tech companies keep laying people off. They’re already operating a skeleton crew, and now they’re trying to replace portions of that skeleton crew with AI And already, it’s not working. At this rate, remotely complicated software is going to become a lost technology

I always say it’s about 12…

It’s kinda true, but incomplete. There’s twelve stories that we’ve told each other since antiquity

Holy shit, you’re a fucking retard. Like of the “people look and laugh” scale. I’m unironically going to take your response to share with technical people in my life to laugh over And no hate to the mentally ill, I’ve never laughed at them. I laugh with them, because their delightful and love joy to an extent that leaves me jealous But you’re not a real person. You’re a joke, if your ego was two sizes smaller I’d be gently explaining to you how no number of code katas would result in Microsoft XP

So is semiconductor design, application of transistors to implement logic gates, etc. We still have people who can do that, not very many, but enough. Not many people work in assembly language anymore, either… Yeah, that’s a lost tech. We still use the same decades, even century old, frameworks They’re not perfect. But they are unchangeable. We no longer have the skills to adapt them to modern technology. Improvements are incremental, despite decades of effort you still can’t reliably run a system on something like RISK.

Okay, but if it’s writing 800 lines at once, it’s making design choices. Which is all well and good for a one off, but it will make those choices, make them a different way each time, and it will name everything in a very generic or very eccentric way The AI can’t remember how it did it, or how it does things. You can do a lot… Even stuff that hasn’t entered commercial products like vectorized data stores to catalog and remind the LLM of key details when appropriate 2000 lines is nothing. My main project is well over a million lines, and the original author and I have to meet up to discuss how things flow through the system before changing it to meet the latest needs But we can and do it to meet the needs of the customer, with high stakes, because we wrote it. These days we use AI to do grunt work, we have junior devs who do smaller tweaks. If an AI is writing code a thousand lines at a time, no one knows how it works. The AI sure as hell doesn’t. If it’s 200 lines at a time, maybe we don’t know details, but the decisions and the flow were decided by a person who understands the full picture

I don’t think we should be having the AI write the program in the first place. I think we’re barreling towards a place where remotely complicated software becomes a lost technology I don’t mind if AI helps here and there, I certainly use it. But it’s not good at custom fit solutions, and the world currently runs on custom fit solutions AI is like no code solutions. Yeah, it’s powerful, easier to learn and you can do a lot with it… But eventually you will hit a limit. You’ll need to do something the system can’t do, or something you can’t make the system do because no one properly understands what you’ve built At the end of the day, coding is a skill. If no one is building the required experience to work with complex systems, we’re going to be swimming in a world of endless ocean of vibe coded legacy apps in a decade I just don’t buy that AI will be able to take something like a set of State regulations and build a complaint outcome. Most of our base digital infrastructure is like that, or it uses obscure ancient systems that LLMs are basically allergic to working with To me, we’re risking everything on achieving AGI (and using it responsibly) before we run out of skilled workers, and we’re several game changing breakthroughs from achieving that

AI isn’t good at changing code, or really even understanding it… It’s good at writing it, ideally 50-250 lines at a time

And you don’t understand what being effective means. You’re why we’re fucked.

It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them? Every successful political movement is evangelical

Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape