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1. Anything that can be easily done with an LLM can be done by anyone easily. Given that, the value of those things therefore drops to near zero.

2. All remaining things are at least as hard to do as before, but you may have removed some load from people that previously were more busy doing things from the (1) category manually. So these might drop in value a bit as there are more hours available with the existing people to do those.

3. Then, there are things that become harder because somebody used an LLM to do them. Imagine you have a project lead who didn't do one bit themselves, generated a bunch of specs and tickets using AI and handed them to you. You are the first one looking at them manually and you find out that they are garbage. Now, in all likelihood you have lost efficiency. This in my experience applies to all types of work that yield results which are hard to verify.

Which of those cancels out the other and what kind of feedback effect arises and what overall effect on productivity/efficiency this has, nobody knows.

Count the number of Os in October correctly

> I suspect, as we continue forward, humans will slowly start to adopt the language of LLMs, or at least certain language quirks that come from interacting with LLMs.

Or we'll do the opposite and even deliberately use some words that an LLM would never use to identify whose content is worth reading?

> Life on earth today has objectively never been better in the history of our entire species. Try to retain some perspective.

The typical relative privation argument trap

> But you can do away with all that messiness of all that exchange and just have AI micromanage the economy. AI should be able to figure out how much to produce, how to limit waste, who should get what, etc. in a very fair and efficient manner.

Might want to think that through again. I recommend this SG Atlantis episode: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Poisoning_the_Well

> I would say that it is more likely than not that a graphics card exhibits some form of consciousness. But I am a panpsychist, I believe an individual atom has some form of consciousness.

Fair enough point. But then I guess you'd also say that a piece of silicon or sand exhibits some form of consciousness. I don't think that's what people mean when they talk about the potential of LLMs (the algorithm) being conscious or somehow developing consciousness?

It's a pointless debate in a scientific, left brain sense. Who can prove that you aren't the only consciousness in the universe and you are basically dreaming your experimental results up? Experimental verifications exist only in a limited scope.

If your argument is that matter brings about consciousness somehow and therefore LLMs can in principle be conscious, that's as good as claiming the opposite. There's no experiment that can falsify either.

As a being that knows what consciousness is intuitively, you already know that a graphics card is most likely not conscious.

> When the consciousness itself not understood and well defined in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if something is or isn't conscious.

That's like saying if matter itself is not understood and well defined (which it isn't) in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if jumping from a skyscraper is or is not deadly.

A lot of practical aspects of life do not need to be properly defined as long as I can reasonably assume that your experience is similar to mine as a human being. Attributing that to a graphics card computing the next token deserves to be scrutinized.

> blocking a door for a few minutes. Or betting against many trains and throwing a hopefully fake body onto a busy line.

Not necessary. If you just bet against them being punctual always, you'll have a 80% plus success rate.

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And centralization is ineffective long term

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> The problem is, even as you ignore the internet, it goes on without you, and yet your ignoring it doesn't make you immune to it.

I recently moved and had a lot on my list in real life generally for about six to nine months. I stopped using the internet as I did before because I simply didn't have time. I primarily used it to order stuff for the new house and to do my professional work. No podcasts, no YT videos, no news articles, no social media. I even stopped watching the news completely.

Guess what? Nothing happened other than me feeling a lot better. I didn't miss out on anything as far as I know. Instead, I forgot about all the bullsh*t that's not even real. Let's be honest. Most of the stuff on social media is completely made up or has a core of truth but is completely blown out of proportion to get attention.

A couple of times a coworker told me about how scary the news were and that they are afraid something bad will happen soon. I just said: "Ah, it's probably not going to be that bad." And guess what? It wasn't that bad. I never heard of it again afterwards.

The internet will move on without you and you don't have to be immune to it. You can just move on without it. Use it for what you need and try to make it as hard as possible for it to use you.

> The amount of DRM and locking down Amazon bolts onto its ereaders and ebook formats feels insane to me. I can understand the profit motive but god damn.

I don't. I would be much happier buying ebooks without DRM and I would buy substantially more of them if they were DRM-free.

> "Apple Intelligence" meant whatever Apple marketing wants it to be. Now "GPT 5" is also a marketing term. You are paying for the abstracted experience and brand. Not a specific model or defined capabilities anymore.

Seems like an apples to oranges comparison (pun not intended). The term Apple Intelligence was introduced for the new service/product. GPT<n> has a history of standing for something (a specific model).

I didn't try it yet, but it seems you should be able to do that via their GitHub repo: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts

Parent asked why it's not a good proxy measure for reliability. You admit that it isn't.

> Yes, TÜV does not assess reliability of a car, but road-worthiness

So, great - that's all I tried to say to start with.

Now enjoy your smear campaign!

Oh, wow - as soon as real information is required, you pull out. Didn't expect anything else.

If that's the case, then please cite reliable sources about the exact issues that occur and what Tesla did or did not do to mitigate them or let them slip.

If you'd have those, you could have posted them earlier here in the thread.

> I just take note what companies do

No. You are obviously not doing that. You take note of what the media emphasizes in an obvious press campaign that oversimplifies the actual information to a degree where it becomes borderline useless in order to reach political goals. This is not the same.

You can mark whatever you want with your bright and bold marker. It doesn't make your argument more sound.

If you are worried about the brakes, brake hard occasionally to avoid rust.

Alternatively, you can charge the car up to near 100% if you go on a roadtrip. Regen will be limited initially so you will be able to use your brakes without braking hard.

If you are still worried about the brakes, go to an independent car mechanic regularly and have them checked.

It's as easy as that.

Nobody is preventing you from doing service even though it's not deemed necessary by the vendor.

Your comment doesn't seem to be about the actual issue but about some form of generalized Tesla brand hatred.

Look, HN people don't like Tesla. A lot of German people in positions of power don't like Tesla. Suddenly an article appears that explicitly highlights Tesla vehicles as not passing TÜV because they allegedly have quality issues. The article mentions no details. If you search for details on Google, you get a list of very similar looking articles all citing the same statement from a TÜV person. None of those provide any details on the actual issues. If no details are provided, the only thing to do is guess.

It's really quite clear what's going on here.

The TÜV does not assess the reliability of a car. The reasons for a car failing an inspection after 3 years can be manifold. It doesn't mean that the car "won't age well" or anything along those lines.

If you dislike Tesla, then say it - it's fine. No need to support vague smear campaigns.

In fact, right now Tesla has the best electric car technology available on the market. Along with the best charging network available on the market. And the best software (light years ahead of the competition) on the market. Also they don't require you to service the car for a long time. That makes German people especially afraid that they lose their car manufacturing, selling and servicing business. And rightly so. No smear campaign and no comparing apples to oranges will save them from reforming and restoring their competitiveness in a very long painful process.

> My 25 year old car aces the test all the time

You wouldn't do a regular service right before the TÜV appointment, would you?

Also, this doesn't sound environmentally friendly to me.

If you translate the article and read it, you will find that there are a lot of reported issues with the headlights. It is hard to find exact information on the actual issue in detail, but I'd suspect it's about the calibration of the headlights in most cases. That's a minor issue and calling it a reliability problem doesn't seem accurate. Also quite conveniently, they don't really mention that Teslas have significantly more mileage on average than other electric cars when they have their first TÜV visit. It's common for the German press to blow things like these out of proportion when they don't like a brand.

Also there's things like these which are way too common for my taste: https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/adac-skandal-gelber-enge...

I think the German car industry and the press around it as a whole have a serious corruption issue.

I am sure HN has made up their mind already and this discussion wouldn't have an effect on your opinion anyway, so please feel free to continue downvoting.

Have you ever brought a car through the German TÜV?

> https://www.adac.de/news/tuev-report-2025/

This is about what cars made it through the German TÜV. Not about reliability.

What you describe sounds more like an attempt to classify aspects of the "Big 5" personality traits in some kind of binary system. Your "fact-based" persona seems to be low in agreeableness while the "story-based' is rather high in it (put very simplified).

> Opt-in makes the data useless - not just in terms of the huge drop in quantity but because of the fact it introduces a huge bias in the data selected - the people that would opt-in are probably not a good sample of "typical users".

Why? I don't think that's obvious. It may also be related to the way the opt-in is presented. In general, I would expect this to be a workable solution. Even if the opt-in group deviates from the "typical user", it's the best data you can get in an honest and ethically sound way. This should certainly be better than no data at all?

For any website/app that presents an opt-in cookie consent banner this is implicitly already the case.

Well, nowhere wouldn't be that bad actually. At least, you wouldn't be that far from home. In practice, you go somewhere. But you usually end up in some place in the middle of nowhere in between your departure point and your destination. Also, it's freezing and the next train (which of course doesn't arrive on time) will be overloaded - that is, if you're lucky. Most of the time, there won't even be a train but a "replacement bus service" which commonly is a single small bus that about 200 people try to board simultaneously after they waited for about an hour and a half.

The whole torture is accompanied by awkward excuses like "unexpected staff shortage", "technical disruption", "signal repairs", or "delay due to earlier journey" which you can look at in an app that tends to not work while you wait and freeze.

Bonus: If all else fails, you can play "Bahn Bingo" while you reflect on the experience of your trip: https://www.bahnbingo.de/