Wakko

Please, for the love of all that’s holy, read an economics book.

This is why the bedrock of any sane civilized population is public education. We try to give most individuals the opportunity to learn as much about how our society works as possible to give individuals the best chance at success available.

This is also why the current geopolitical situation was built on decades of undermining public education with homeschooling and “parent choice” initiatives. The USA’s “No Child Left Behind” Act created an entire generation of children ripped out of public schools after decades of defunding public education created such poor conditions that parents were duped into believing dismantling public education was the solution.

In short - I’m not.

This is a “buggy whip manufacturer” moment. Software development as we currently understand the practice is no longer needed in volume. Just like buggy whips no longer need as many craftsman making them since the advent of the internal combustion engine.

Yes, some people will still be “line editors” just like there are still some people preserving older skills and manufacturing niche items like buggy whips for the handful of horse-drawn buggies that still exist and are in-use.

But the vast majority of software going forward will be produced by LLMs. The skills required to “drive” the new LLM engine is an altogther different set of skills than what is required to whip and steer horses. Everyone fighting this tide is just fighting the inevitable.

Instead, I’m moving “up the stack” and focusing on answering the question, “What testing is difficult to game and shows me that the work has been done adequately to spec?”

The LLM-enabled future needs more mathematicians than it needs code-writers. The vast majority of anti-LLM Luddites I see online are all people who are “coders”; the “computer scientists” are busy adapting to a future that is already here.

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Fun fact - Throughout much of recorded human history, there is evidence that much of the human population has relied on centralized food services and kitchens.

Not knowing how to cook is not as uncommon as people seem to think.

Most people, most of the time, do not care about anything that doesn’t directly affect their daily life.

In order to accomplish most things, it requires going against basic human nature.

I can confirm that not all Fediverse software is conformant to the whole of the ActivityPub specs. Interop is definitely not bug-free.

I’m looking forward to it. I can’t wait to scoop up a few.

Uh huh. And refrigeration has robbed everyone of essential food preservation knowledge.

Automation does that. Whether it’s a bad thing depends upon many factors.

Current frontier models aren’t guaranteed to last. Commoditization is coming and democritization with it.

Every worker at every tech company needs to unionize.

This is why I just disable downvotes entirely. When the choice is between upvote or nothing, there’s less ability to be manipulative.

You aren’t obligated to finish every book you start. It’s okay to rage-quit in the middle sometimes. Some books are just written terribly or the subject just isn’t as interesting as we first thought. You can always come back to it later or try someone else’s take on the subject.

I’m aware. Given the current state of the USA, I understand the willingness to overlook China’s imperfections.

At a certain point, the old tribalistic feuding needs to give way to responsible globalized stewardship of the planets finite resources. To be civilized it’s to be scientific; to be scientific requires accepting certain realities about our world.

Boy, it seem’s China’s beating the USA at all aspects of AI.

/rimshot

I like True Crime. Or how-to’s… learning about a subject. Science is great. An easy source of interesting non-fiction is https://arxiv.org/ . ;-)

You can improve your attention span. It just takes putting effort into it.

Some things that will help:

1. Stop watching short-form content. Ban yourself from Instagram, Tiktok, and Shorts/Reels on any site.
2. Drop off social media as much as possible - check it once a day, for a max of 15 minutes.
3. Start reading a book for at least 1 hour at least 3 times a week.
4. Read at least one non-fiction book for every 3 fiction books you read.
5. Pick up a hobby that requires dedicated focus and practice. Spend your free time doing that instead of doomscrolling.
6. Spend 30 minutes a week in a quiet space, meditating.

“there is evidence” - Translation: He read a sensationalist headline somewhere about a single study, didn’t read the study, definitely didn’t look for corroborating or refuting studies, and absolutely, positively has no actual data to confirm his pet theory.

This is literally the dumbest interpretation of the concept. This is what it looks like when tier-1 tech support folks want to roleplay as ML engineers while they troll internet forums cosplaying that they’re somehow “helping” while doing absolutely nothing meaningful with their life.

They were fighting in the war room again. /s

False. Datacenters don’t need to eat.

Demented Donny really, really, really wants to push the big red button.