julkali

What kind of arm-chair, ultra-utilitarist thought experiment ist this

Please stop pushing your slop to profit off the situation.

It's apparently a fork (Github Readme)

Please support your claim about (networking) performance of BSD-based systems and Linux with some source(s). It surprised me. Thank you.

nimby

no

i felt that.

because you start internalizing costs

Source?

I also tried setting my phone to grayscale, but it takes me significantly longer to do useful things, as some UIs are harder to distinguish without color. Have you found a workaround for this?

Yes, but only 15-20 years later in the extent expected for 2000. The technology wasn't there yet, just like with LLMs.

The issue is that the examples you listed mostly rely on very specific machine learning tools (which are very much relevant and good use of this tech), while the term "AI" in layman terms is usually synonymous for LLMs.

Mentioning the mid-1990s' internet boom is somewhat ironic imo, given what happened next. The question is whether "business models mature" with or without a market crash, given that the vast majority of ML money is provided for LLM efforts.

Do not conflate your own experience with everyone else's.

This kind of legislation has been proposed so many times at EU and national level, and will fail like always, at the lates at the European Court of Justice for violating human rights.

That is the silicon valley cryptoscam version.

This concept has been studied already extensively, e.g [1] (in 2000!) by people like Rivest and Chaum, who have actual decade-old competence in that field.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/pubs/LRSW99.pdf

How would "tech companies and data centres" alleviate the situation? Tech companies typically employ highly specialized staff that are often not even local to the community. The result of inviting tech companies to your country can be seen in Ireland (/Dublin).

Data centres are even worse - they need only a handful of staff members while draining incredible amounts of energy and water.

You live in Spain - why not advocate for boosting the energy sector, better grid infrastructure, more renewables, etc.? This would harness a tangible, sustainable strength of your country within the EU and, considering the blackout last month, is definitely something to work on before any tech company or datacentre can settle in Spain ...

I think there is a fundamental misconception of the benefit / performance-improvement of LLM-aided programming:

Without sacrificing code quality, it only makes coding more productive _if you already know_ what you're doing.

This means that while it has a big potential for experienced programmers (making them push out more good code), you cannot replace them by an army of code monkeys with LLMs and expect good software.

That's why central bank digital currencies are the way to go - same amount of trust as the (real) base currency and near-cash-level privacy (modulo implementation details)