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Re:Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:06AM (#50326885)
This is how white collar crashout over being replaced by automation looks like.

So far we've only seen this in blue collar jobs.

>> ... that Terence Tao, largely considered one of the greatest mathematicians of this generation,..

He's also probably salty that he is just one of the mortals now.

Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:01AM (#50326848)
Yes honey, you want so more Trump derangement syndrome? I have an infinite supply of it for you.
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:44AM (#50326173)
Have you ever taken into account that perhaps it's you who has failed to understand anything about what is actually going on?
It's funny how disconnected from reality so many people are in this thread.

If it were not for ICE you'd have infinite illegals in this country.

This normalization of illegals will be studies as a mental illness in the future.

>> Right? Let's just keep this list as a list of people who should never hold office, or work in law enforcement ever again once Trump goes.

"Democracy for us, but not for them"

Re:SDL's Claude.md on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:21AM (#50258058)
Great way to ensure your project not ever being used in any serious venture.

Code can be Art, just don't complain when people don't use it for real projects.

The entire GDPR is clownish anyway, alongside cookie banners.

Everything should just be trashed, your personal data is everywhere already, it's the price of using social media.

Often doctors miss rare diseases and gaslight patients that they don't have them.

AI is great for this since it has encyclopedic knowledge.

Yes because the EU countries really love the truth.

See: reasons for Ukraine war and immigration gaslighting, Paris.

Big food shill detected.
Re:'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:32AM (#50068997)
Oh god these word games... no wander some people get nothing done.
Where was Terence Tao where other workers were being replaced by immigrants, robots and other automation?

Academics and white collars now get to experience what blue collar workers experienced in the past.

Same as what developers in USA experienced who were and are getting replaced by Indians.

Re:AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:39AM (#49975409)
Author conflates "why do kids want to learn in the first place" with "chatbots only teach mechanisms".

All public and most private schools already only teach mechanisms.

With chatbots you can at least ask it a hundrer times to explain something if you don't get it, you can't do that with teachers, most of whom just rattle about their curricilum.

Re:Mosquitoes Are a Choice on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:32AM (#49966196)
Midwit article.

People like the author actually belive that there is no chance of real world interactions happening.

Eg what is the bacteria jumps to some other organism? What if it mutates? What if the birds eat the mosquitoes and carry a mutated bacteria elsewhere?

There is a reason why you need autistic level safety for such projects, and even then things like this might happen.

It's completely impossible to guarantee theses things, no matter how long you study it in a lab.

Some people just aren't capable of thinking more than 1 step ahead.

Okay, now, when AI and robots can do surgeries and advise people better than modern doctors do (the bar is not that high, ask anyone with an autoimmune disease or gut issues)...
Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:11AM (#49932177)
>> The truth is that we don’t really know what exactly makes love work, such that we can articulate and implement it on a societal scale. It’s too messy, too complex, too idiosyncratic, and too human. Anyone who claims otherwise probably has a course to sell you on negging and pickup artistry.

The author, who is a gay man, obviously didn't study any pickup material since if he would he'd realize how wrong he is. If he'd study pickup material and the surrounding works he'd realize that what women write in these preferences is completely meaningless so his example of meeting a guy as a guy on this website is completely useless for men meeting women, since women do not work like that.

All of these algorithmic matching will become totaly useless and wrong depending on the behaviour of the male. In a completely mismatched pair the women will fawn over the guy if his behaviour is congruent with what attracts females. And even on a complete match the women will run away in panic if the guy is a total tool sexual-behaviour-wise to what (dis)attracts women.

Also: nothing will solve marriage problem as long as women are in the workforce.

Look up books by Rollo Tomassi, he has a blog and has written on these topics if you are one of those "citation needed" people.

Re:First Principles Thinking on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:36PM (#49858160)
I've been of similar opinion but since Opus it is there, here and right now.
"All kneel before the god of biomechanics, by sword or by surrender."

- Roissy

Re:First Principles Thinking on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:50AM (#49846224)
Why would you care about architecture? It was an issue when humans were writing code so architecture mattered in the sense that you needed a sweet spot between current requirements and future extensions.

The agent can rewrite half your codebase in one day, so architecture stops mattering for the most part.

"He is black, you cannot accuse him of anything, you racist."
Re:The truth and the lies about Islam in Europe on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:22PM (#49676165)
>> Europe faces no Islamic takeover, no mass radicalisation of Muslims and no erasure of its culture.

Obviously is does. Muslims have such a higher birth rate they they will be a majority soon. How is that not take-over?

>> Half of the 12 council wards in Blackburn, in northern England, are over 60% Muslim; two are over 80%. In such areas women can feel pressure to let sharia councils govern their family lives.

Wait didn't this article said there is no take-over a paragraph or two before?

>> And the populist right often whips up fear by claiming that all Muslims pose a threat and accusing the state of a “woke cover-up” and “two-tier treatment”.

Well if Muslims can do things in the name of religion why are white people and Christians prosecuted for doing the same?

>> That is why Europe’s mainstream politicians need to offer an alternative.

No thanks, we have seen it doesn't work. Mainstream politicians by definition cannot give an alternative.

People are tribal. Muslims vote for Muslims.

Lee Kuan Yew showed that in a multiracial, multiethnic country you cannot even have a jury of your peers since people are so tribal.

It will be funny watching feminists trying to square a circle by still somehow defending Muslims, who want nothing more than getting rid of women rights.

It's sad that this comment is downvoted.

If root cause could be identified people wouldn't need insulin pumps and other complications anymore at all...

But this is what you get with modern midwits running around everywhere....

Re:The Future Belongs to the Weird on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:18AM (#49418670)
What we call "normal" is the historical convergence to behaviour that allows a civilization to thrive and survive long term.

Change that and the weirdos will create a society that will die out.

See: modern liberal society and feminisim which leads to population collapse and destruction of the civilizations that embrace it.

>> "It's certainly hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society"

Perhaps this uber progressive society we live in is, in fact, not such a great one long term civilization-wise?

TLDR is that it's activists in video game companies that will be complaining, not gamers, you know, that actual customers.

At this point I'm 90% convinced that any kind of a healthcare system will work as long as the politicans and everyone involved is not corrupt.

Alas...

The real question is then: since corruption seems to be everywhere, which system is the most resistant to it in terms of the price + quality for the end user.

And the real real question is: what can be done so that every country has a political class that has the same strict rules of law for corruption etc... as Singapore does?

In other EU countries it's the same or even worse: you just pay it as a part of gross and gross-gross taxes.
The reason nobody is buying them is that if everyone can generate them on their own, exactly as you require as per your project specs, why would you buy it online?

You know much better what kind of a model to generate and you pay 3$ for many variations.

GMO food can have serious ill health effects since a single bad newly produced protein in the food can have serious effects on health.

No pesticides etc... needed.

https://gmojudycarman.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/The-Ful...

https://gmojudycarman.org/adverse-effects-on-stomachs-of-rat...

Basicaly this will happen:

1) Germany bans SUNO.

2) German companies will be forced to use expensive audio/musicians + longer iteration times.

3) USA, Chinese, Indian etc... companies will use SUNO.

4) Germany companies won't be able to compete and will fold.

5) Major job loss in Germany.

6) EU politicians will, as always, misdiagnose the problem and say that "Europenas need to work more".

7) EU will create more stupid laws.

8) Go to 1)

The need to find out who did the swatting and give him life in jail.

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