it is weird that there is bidding for this instead of just all being “buy it now”. Who wants to plan several hours ahead for probabilistic takeout you probably won’t even get, to maybe hypothetically save several dollars?

In the worst case, almost all the gains from Automata flow to a small percentage of the population who accumulate unprecedented wealth. That extreme inequality would undoubtedly result in severe social unrest. This risk is likely greatest in societies that allow the rise of Automata to be governed by market forces with minimal oversight and regulation. The responsibility for avoiding such a state will fall to national governments and economic unions that have the legislative power to set guardrails and use taxation to build infrastructure that facilitates broad participation in the new economy.

idk what “guardrails” or “facilitates broad participation in the new economy” is supposed to mean or how it is supposed to work, but it doesn’t seem like anything short of actual redistribution could actually be effective at preventing extreme inequality in this situation.

It isn’t normal for human beings to modify their behavior because someone scolded them about it in a rational way, especially when popular approval is still on the side of doing what they are doing, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing that moves the needle on people changing their behavior. You need positive reinforcement when they do something else instead, and stuff like that.

Using it like that for in-game paintings kind of sucks, wasted worldbuilding opportunity. If a game has details that imply you should spend time looking at them, they should have content that has to do with the game and isn’t arbitrary filler.

I mean it does seem maybe too pointedly ironic to not be satire

They’d rather spend hundreds of dollars on skins that’ll give them a sense of identity than $70 on a one-time experience.

ugh

Very cool concept. I wonder if constant ice freezing and thawing would cause damage to the container and pipes over time though

it’s usually something like an evap leak that’s pretty safe to ignore.

This was the code causing my check engine light to go off, replaced the evap canister but the light stayed on. Went away after I got the battery replaced for unrelated reasons, so I would have saved some time and money if I had ignored it instead of bothering trying to fix it.

Are there any equivalent quarantine subs that would have a similar effect on the threadiverse? Right-wing people in particular seem to be convinced it is not what they are looking for, fortunately, judging from comments I saw when I browsed r/RedditAlternatives.

Can that be realistically achieved though? Any representative government is going to be vulnerable to the selection effects of people who want to be in charge ending up in charge, and those of them most willing to do whatever it takes having a competitive advantage. The formation of an elite class colluding at the expense of the rest of us seems like a natural result.

Honestly at this point we may as well go for it, it’s obvious that colonizing space is something humanity will fuck up really badly in our current state, enforcing a few thousand years to get our shit together first seems like it could be a good idea.

Plagiarism is just the way human culture is supposed to work.

I’m pretty sure caffeine is a performance enhancing drug for a lot of jobs so no chance of that. Plus like you allude to, it can be synthetically manufactured for cheap without worrying about growth conditions or import of coffee beans.

It isn’t, it’s a little bit more:

$15,960

Chicken says no eggs for you

Both incidentally categories where I will never be happy with slopcode.

The point here isn’t necessarily that any particular use of LLMs is a good tradeoff (I can accept that many will not be especially when security and correct operation is very important), just that quantity clearly matters, to refute the point you were making earlier that it doesn’t.

We are actively building a history of cases where LLM usage correlates heavily with that slope you mentioned, but hey that’s OK, we aren’t allowed to call things out before they happen, judgement may only be passed once the damage is done right?

Out of curiosity, we know that LLM usage increases cognitive deficit and in some cases leads to psychosis. How many fatalities would you say is an acceptable number before governments act? How degraded do we let our societies get before we reign it in?

I think it’s a mistake to consider all LLM usage as one thing, and that thing as some kind of sin to be denounced as a whole rather than in part, and not considered beyond thinking of ways to get rid of it (which is effectively impossible). There were people who had this attitude towards for example electricity, which is actually very dangerous when misused and caused lots of fires and electrocutions, but the way those problems eventually got mitigated was by working out more sensible ways to use it rather than returning to an off-grid world.

One example of a place where quantity is lacking is web browsers. Another might be mobile operating systems. I am glad projects like Firefox and GrapheneOS exist, but it’s obvious that the volume of work needed to achieve broad compatibility and competitiveness for these types of software is a limiting factor. As for the idea that any LLM use is a slippery slope, the way to avoid the slippery slope fallacy would be to have compelling evidence or rationale that any use really does lead naturally to problematic use; without that the argument could apply to basically any programming thing that gets to be associated with things done badly (ie. Java), but I think it isn’t usually the case that a popular tool has genuinely no good or safe ways to use it and I don’t think that’s true for AI.

I will complain about quantity, many areas where open source projects are competing with closed source commercial products they have not achieved feature parity or a comparable level of polish, quantity matters. So does, as someone else touched on, quality of life improvements to the process of writing code like ease of acquiring and synthesizing information. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a worthwhile tradeoff, but how much is really being sacrificed depends on what exactly is being done with a LLM. To me one part of what’s described here that’s clearly going too far is using it to automate communication with other people contributing to the project, there’s no way that is worth it.

As for the gun thing, I will support entirely banning LLM powered weapons intended to kill people, that’s an easy choice.

I’ll argue that it is a tool, and object to automatic zealous hostility towards anyone using it, but that doesn’t mean criticisms of how that tool is being used aren’t valid. It seems like that is what people are focusing on here, and they definitely aren’t Luddites for doing so.