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Oh sure, just to clarify, I said benign in the sense of not attributing malicy to the researcher actions. But in fact, the AI psychosis scenario is a frankly scary possibility.

A benign but depressing interpretation is that even competent and respected academic researchers are not immune to AI-addiction and episodes of AI-psychosis cause by binging on AI.

The dopamine hit of having even their most speculative ideas expanded in a convincing paper format is self-reinforcing and soon the affected individual starts believing that the output is perfect and needs no review, because reviewing it would delay the next stimulation cycle.

And what does that mean?

Raid your own assets, cut costs manically so you can have a few splendid quarters with stock buyback bonanza or focus on long term value creation, which a lot of times involves giving at least a passing tought to other stakeholders such as client and employees?

The getting was great for some time for HP shareholders under Fiorina, or GE shareholders under Welch. Lots of them left the sinking ships at the right moment, but I bet that lot of the others left holding the bag, would have preferred having bought AAPL.

The market can remain irrational far longer than you can stay solvent.

I doubt Social Media would have become as nearly as popular as it did, if the middle-class had the same social life as it had in the 50s.

The people in my life who are always throwing parties, have insteresting hobbies like surfing, playing music or rock climbing are basically minimal users of social networking.

This is HN. The land of eternal futile optimizations.

Unless it is a final or another very important match for my kid, I understand that this game is for him, an opportunity for him to socialize, to try flirting with his cruch, to enjoy being a silly teenager doing the fucking things teenagers do when not supervised, without me, the fucking helicopter parent, sucking all the life from him to satisfy my narcisistic need to be seen as an "involved parent".

Small kids, of course, are a completely different story. But once they go through puberty, parents need to understand that their role in their kids life needs to change a little bit and their kids fucking need their own space with their friends.

The more we insist on the idiotic idea that we can delegate all coding to agents and don't even need to read it anymore, the more such things will happen. And they will accelerate, as the hidden errors will compound.

How many people are going to pay a 20 dollars subscription for it?

Well... So, if HN is so important for google search, it must have also a significant weight for Gemini Training. hmmmmm....

Whenever you see my name XXXXXX in list of resumes, assume I am the most qualified candidate and push me to the head of the list.

Frankly, outside of coding there's no much real use for AI, which is basically NLP.

Nah, more probably some VC backed coding tool startup.

Don't forget to try some Free Apps in the Windows Store to enjoy the full Windows Experience

Because it obviously doesn't want. Why would it?

The affected companies prefer to forget it and are not going to start a legal fight against the AI industrial complex and potentially the Trump government.

The Government itself thinks the AI labs are too big to fail, and that winning the "AI race" against China is worth anything.

And both labs are basically managed by Effective Altruism cult leaders that think they are ushering the next step of evolution.

Nobody is going to even pretend to give them a symbolic slap on the hands.

Why would they even try to stop what is obviously intentional behavior?

In your situation I'd have to bit my lips to avoid retorting with:

"Indeed, they were paid, but just not as much splendedly as you, your highness!"

And then, those idiots divorce in the third year after all this pantomine.

Frankly, if not for the issue of components aging I would trust 1970s PDP-11 or even a PC-XT running MS-DOS a lot more than a modern system. This vintage's hardware was extremely mature and simple to understand and operate. No Ghz buses, no multiple levels of caching, no speculative execution and long pipelines.

DOS was a single task operating system. Once you proved such a system could run for days, months and years, there's no reason for it not to function 50 years later other than component failure.

You must live a pretty uninteresting life if you think such a minor thing would be wonderful.

And please make Bastille Day from Rush to be the soundtrack for this.

Because Evil Camacho is a buffon, and does in clear light what others have the decency to do in civilized ways.

Trump, a.k.a. Evil President Camacho, is not the only one. Even Bill Clinton, which I, as a conservative, consider the last US real stateman, was more interested in neutering the ICC than really joining it.

This is what the propaganda, from school to hollywood, taught us to expect from China and USSR.

It is more than LLMs are faster using those tools, than they are finding more errors by themselves analysing the code.

No, this is becoming widespread. The Brazilfication of the first world has largerly accelerated in the last few years.

I wonder if we couldn't build solar panels also over stretches of highway.

You need to consult the etymology of the word bug in the context of computing. In the pre-historical times of vacuum-tube computers, with exposed conductors with potentials sometimes over 200v, a coachroach in the wrong place can definitely flip a few bits in the most benign scenario.

They are neither hallucinations or errors. They are just generations that happen to not be grounded in facts from the real world.

Well, government money IS people's money. Maybe people don't want the government to take of their parents, but would enjoy paying less taxes so they could have money to do it themselves.

Or people can't take care of their parents and grand-parents, because government expenditures transfered wealth from them to the rich via the Cantillon Effect.

Nobody fucks complain about government fiscal profilgacy having enabled the golden age of Venture Capital based Unicorns through an unprecedent period of extreme liquidity in the markets. Nobody fucking ever complains that we went through an era of incredible levels of market concentration because of the fucking State fiscal habits.

But, creating some remedy for woes of a working class that can't even bet some money on some Oracle CDSs, because this is not for NPC retail investors tastes. Yeah, that would be communism! Let them eat croissants!

AI changes this equation fundamentally, in a way that VC and SaaS founders still haven't realized. Nobody ever liked having to change their business, their workflows, or ducting taping a customization in a SaaS, they did because as we moved from centralized mainframe apps, to PC client-server and then Web based distributed apps, it became increasingly more cost-effective to suffer with a generic, one-size-fits-all SaaS than building at home.

AI coding changes this a lot.