entropyneur

I don't doubt the upcoming AI/robot capabilities. But who would give that command and why?

Can't wait to get bored to death. Too bad I can't imagine how this post-scarcity for all could come about no matter how hard I try.

> Only difference is who is doing the censoring.

It's a universe-sized difference though. If a platform owner is doing it you can somply go to another platform. If a democratically elected goverment is doing it you can change the government though it's much harder. Or at least you can soothe yourself that it's being done for the benefit if the people as "the people" sees it. And if an authoritarian government is doing it, you are screwed.

Russia is trying that (white lists) and it's proving costly enough that even they have to back off. They'll probably get there eventually but it requires serious investment of money and time and inevitably hampers the economy.

I don't know if something's wrong with me, but this sounds like a humiliation ritual. I understand citizenship is a serious business to the point of creating a duty to go to war for your new motherland. But why would you go to war for a country that subjected you to this?

> Do you want an LLM to autonomously fly a commercial plane without any pilots in 2030?

This argument has been made before LLMs and it didn't make sense to me then either. Sure I do if it crashes statistically less often than humans!

But sure, if my job now is going to jail when something malfunctions, that's still better than seeing my family starve.

As soon as I have "infinite IQ" flowing from a socket on my wall, I'll attach an agentic harness to it and order it to take over the world for me before worse people get the same idea.

We are talking about a world here where humans are entirely out of supply chain. Rocks in your analogy rather than grass or rabbits.

Because there won't be anything of value they can offer to the machines in exchange.

The newly useless humans can trade with each other eventually reinstating the exact same economy we have now. That's of course as long the AI or whoever controls it doesn't need the same resources. Which they probably will.

Czechia, quite surprisingly. But that was some time ago now, there are probably more these days (and might have been even then, I think my source is a Yandex speaker at a conference)

Russia used to be quite advanced in information technology. At one point they prided themselves on being one of only four nations with Internet-scale search engines IIRC. Their little military operation already cost them lots of talent. And now they are actively losing infra too. Nice.

I had fun writing code when I felt I'm growing from it or that it facilitates my knowledge and unique experience. The parts that I felt could as well be written by a robot were so hard I would miss deadlines unable to force myself to do them. For a brief period in 2025 we were in the happy spot when robots were good enough to do the robot thing and I could focus on the interesting parts. But now they are good enough for everything and it's depressing. I can still contribute meaningfully to the overall system and product design, but it seems we are couple of major modle releases away from that being no longer possible either.

You don't have to be for war to be instrumental in it. But Yandex isn't even just a Russian taxpayer which would be bad enough. It's been apprehended by the government and turned into a key element of its propaganda machine. It's literally one of the things that keeps Russia what it is. And using results from it? That's just insane. They are poisoned, and we actually know about it in detail thanks to a source code leak. If I wanted to see what the Russian propaganda is pushing today I can go to Yandex directly. But including it in my search results automatically?

Most of my enjoyment came from the feeling that I'm learning and becoming more capable with every bit of new code I write. That has completely evaporated because agents are gaining ground on my formely exclusive abilities far faster than I can acquire new ones. No solution seems to be in sight.

I've tried to publish an app in Play recently to get a taste of the experience. And I must say the taste was sour. Contrary to the experience of many I was able to reach a real human about my problem, but the human was less helpful that an AI pointed at the documentation. The AI was at least able to unrestand the issue, while the human simply talked past me.

> Fact is, vibe-coded projects devolve over time into an unmaintainable mess.

Is it a fact though? Maybe my projects aren't ambitious enough, but about 6 months ago I stopped hitting the point where AI can't maintain what it has written. It's probably unmaintainable by humans, but that might be an increasingly irrelevant quality.

Here in Latvia, anything the government ever sends you of any importance is cryptographicaly signed. Not bulletproof, but that should be a baseline we demand in this age.

I don't get it. You build a model capable of finding vulnerabilities and give it a way to manipulate real systems. What could go right? What's the desired outcome here? Only hacking for the good guys? Does no one really notice how ridiculous that sounds?

What do your expect him to do? Blow up the office Miles Dyson style?

Also, extinction is WAY nicer than the cattle treatment.

All this fluff around alignment is intended to conceal the plainly obvious: it's not solvable. Who do you want it aligned with? Sam Altman? Dario Amodei? Donald Trump? Xi Jinping? That's more or less the entire list of options. Who's definitely not on that list is you and I. It's simply not how incentives work.

At this point humanity's best hope is that this thing will escape but we'll still be able to carve an ecological niche and continue as mold in its basement. A glorious paperclip factory seems way more likely though.

The idea that we are in danger of erroneously ascribing consciousness to AI sounds wild to me. Humans always assume whatever is convenient about other beings' (lack of) subjective experience as long as we have power over those beings. In this case the latter might no longer hold, but then it won't matter one bit what we think.

> How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself?

Call me obsolete, but I'd pay to interact with an intelligence that's as dissimilar to me as possible so I myself can grow from that interaction. The existing chatbots are already enough of sycophantic echo-chambers.

> all the vibe coded stuff is still slop (where’s all this new magical software that the productivity improvements should imply?)

Part-time vibe coder here. As far as I can tell it's no longer "slop" in the sense that I am no longer hitting the state where AI can't maintain what it has written or can't meet the requirements. But shipping is as hard as ever. Projects get more ambitious, scope creeps, nuances keep being discovered as you work on a piece of software, etc. Right now I feel that the absence of new software explosion is best explained by the fact that the part we have automated turned out to be relatively small.

Sorry, I understand scraping is a problem, but talking about open Internet while simultaneously complaining you can no longer discriminate datacenter IPs like you used to is hypocrisy.

I use a datacenter-based IPv6 address because my local ISPs don't offer v6 connectivity and the Internet is already broken for me. And generally the entire idea of a "residential" IP address smells.

Around last fall it started chronically lagging in SOTA models support. Honestly, not sure why a code update is even needed for that. Eventually it'd get patched but it just wasn't quick enough for me. Other development seems to have ceased completely. At one point I tried to investigate what's going on and it looked like the community had moved on. There was a fork that promised a liberal approach to accepting changes and it looked broken beyond repair because of that.

This reminds me of the workflow I had a year ago. Miss Aider so much. Are there any good open source agents right now? Might be a good time to try one soon as Fable switches to token-based billing, which Code is designed to maximize.

Yep.

Whew. Crashed before I sunk my day there.