Starman_Jones
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- Starman_JonesPeasants worked ~14 hours a day, and they had no healthcare or ability to retire. The reason you work 8 hours a day, have health care, and the ability to retire is because the 19th and 20th centuries saw an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from the rich to everyone else, which manifested in labor laws, pensions, etc. Unless you can prove otherwise, the default assumption needs to be that consolidation of wealth will lead to all those privileges being erased.
- There is no recursive program that can't also be created by adding in more conditionals. It's turtles the whole way down.
- No reason we can't rely on other sensory modalities after the AI "gets good enough," either. Humans don't have LIDAR, but that doesn't mean that LIDAR is a "cheat" for self-driving cars, or something we should try to move past.
- > ...loneliness and depression...
> All entirely standard male behaviors
- You should probably reconsider putting loneliness and depression on a pedestal here.
- I know several homeschooled students who played varsity sports for their local high school (the one that they would have been attending). I'm not sure about the universality of that, but that's an option for at least some people.
- Do they? It seems like Japan recognizes that it's a major safety issue that causes a significant portion of fatalities, and is working hard to eliminate them entirely.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/japan-addresse...
- The company asking for this was Microsoft. This was originally developed internally because Microsoft wanted to make Copilot usage a key performance metric - they needed a tool to measure that. I've been told as much by people at Microsoft pretty close to this tool. Now I'm speculating, but it seems like someone saw an opportunity to take that internal tool and offer it as an add-on, and pad their bonus by doing it. I suspect this release was driven strictly by supply, not by demand.
- This feels like a self-sabotage by Microsoft. There are things that Copilot does well - a business-context-sensitive LLM that works between Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel is legitimately bigger than any coding tool for most of the business world. However, once Microsoft leadership made it clear that Copilot their top priority, the rest of the company got busy rebranding whatever the hell they were already doing as "Copilot". Instead of selling a tool that fits a need, (employees at) Microsoft are selling a label that checks off a quarterly metric.
- They're not wrong; the attribution is part of the quote. In-game, the source of the quote is usually important, and is always read aloud (unlike in Civ).
- You are correct. However, Joe Rogan should not be the first stop for assessing the scientific plausibility of a new idea. If that is where someone is sending you, that can- and should- be a red flag.