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by paxys | 2025-12-29 23:39:07+00:00
The article and the entire "AI will take all our jobs" doomer moment is idiotic. No one is losing their job to AI and no one will lose their job to AI in the long term without better jobs opening up in their place, same as every single technological innovation in history.

But humoring the author for a moment, and taking their argument to the extreme - let's say AI does take the majority of jobs, and taxes on human productivity aren't enough to sustain society anymore - so what? Isn't not having to work a good thing?

"But how will we pay for things without income taxes??" Why not the same way we did so for literally thousands of years of human history before this kind of taxation was a thing? Or the same way dozens of countries with no income tax do today? Consumption taxes, property taxes, wealth taxes, more efficient extraction and use of natural resources, trade, technological innovations.

The point is, there are plenty of ways for a society to collect revenue, reallocate wealth and balance the books. We don't have to all commit to back breaking labor for ~100% of our functional life just because this is the system most of us were born into and we don't know any better.
by roywiggins | 2025-12-29 23:39:14+00:00
> The high functioning and Asperger's type diagnosis is not about a universal deficit diagnosis

To get an Asperger's diagnosis under the DSM-IV you needed some amount of impairment. "Disorder" is in the title of the DSM, if something isn't conceptualized as a disorder it isn't in there.

https://www.kennedykrieger.org/stories/interactive-autism-ne...

The "broader autistic phenotype"- that is, related traits but without impairment- exists but it is not a diagnosis.
by Fluorescence | 2025-12-29 23:39:17+00:00
> Steam game updates are mandatory and you can't downgrade the game to a previous version either.

For Crusader Kings III, the old versions are listed as betas (cog -> properties -> betas) so you downgrade by "signing up to a beta".

I don't know if it's a common practice but pretty damn necessary for paradox games. A single game might take months and their attitude to backwards compatibility is "new versions will corrupt your game files in ways that only subtly reveal themselves like noticing the King of England owns a county in Mongolia before reaching a game year that will always crash".
by tomasvilte | 2025-12-29 23:39:21+00:00
You're right about that: for commit messages, a Git + Ollama hook is probably the best way to do it for free.

I actually started with some scripts for that, but ended up building a full CLI because I wanted that same context to follow the entire commit cycle. A hook is great for the message itself, but it doesn't help me write a PR summary that matches my team's template or automate release notes or Jira links.

Also, I'm a bit of a control freak with my Git log, so I prefer having a manual hint command where I can see the token cost and adjust the output before I actually commit.
That said, the privacy and cost issue is precisely why Ollama compatibility is my priority right now. I want that local flow at no cost, but with the added workflow features that a simple script usually lacks.
by Aerolfos | 2025-12-29 23:40:12+00:00
Apart from being all AI-written:

> Reality: It’s not fear; it’s math. If 30% of the workforce is displaced, and the remaining 70% have to pay for the social safety net (or UBI) required to keep the displaced alive, the math breaks.

The argument being given simply avoids the question of where the economy itself is in all this. The workers pay taxes, the taxes pay for infrastructure, sure. But the workers aren't doing work (it got taken), so they aren't earning money, so what do they pay taxes on?

It's all just efficiency gains and everyone currently employed stays employed? Not a single AI company wants that. Not a single tech company wants that. Not only do they want layoffs, they're already happening. So that's not going to work out.

Which means there's less workers being paid, less taxes, less money to be spent on the economy, which means less money to pay workers, which means... the logical conclusion is "no economy at all". Taxes are the last thing to worry about then.
by lysace | 2025-12-29 23:40:34+00:00
Some hardcore nazis went to South America.

You may know about Rote Armee Fraktion/Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe. They were a self-proclaimed communist and anti-imperialist urban guerrilla group. They murdered 34 people. A number of these were former Nazi party members that in the 1970s had climbed to powerful positions in West Germany. OTOH, during the war nazi party membership was not exactly optional if you ran a business.

On the other side of the border: While Angela Merkel denies it, I find it extremely improbable that she did not work for Stasi in some form.
by whstl | 2025-12-29 23:40:36+00:00
And I disagree.

My assertion is that software that has only bad parts is way more unpredictable than software that has both good and bad.

For multiple reasons: because "bad" is not necessarily internally consistent. Because it's buggy.

Unless, again, "bad" here means "objectively good quality but I get to call it bad because it's not in the way I like to write code".
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-12-29 23:42:05+00:00
Do people with lower incomes have the entitlement to all benefits of the state without paying a fair share of their own?

If anything, there’s plenty of literature showing that social programs and tax exemptions on the poor make underpaying them possible to begin with. Walmart couldn’t pay $12/hr. if tax exemptions and SNAP and other aid didn’t fill the gap.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-29 23:42:06+00:00
I mean, you mean "I've always tried to block 'obvious' ads in the places I expect obvious ads to be".

The thing is the world of ads is far larger and more complicated than that. Just think of product placement in movies? That is an ad, have you stopped watching most movies?

What about content that is a thinly veiled ad? What about a set of bots that follows everything you post on line, and when it's little AI core figures out you are looking for something makes a suggestion under a post where you're asking questions?
by slow_typist | 2025-12-29 23:42:18+00:00
Before the DB became a public limited company, their services worked remarkably well. I know from first hand experience because I was already a customer then.

The privatisation and the crazy idea that it could somehow not being run on a deficit is what ruined it. Of course the competition thing is artificial, and the internal structures are kaput, but I doubt that more competition would fix it.

Surprisingly, 90% of the train personnel is still pretty good, acting friendly and professionally.
by kayo_20211030 | 2025-12-29 23:42:20+00:00
Then we're in violent agreement.

The challenge would be to control the pace of the evolution of the body of knowledge, but more importantly, its application, to a pace that's consistent with the pace of the system you're building.

> faulty assumption that they must apply it all immediately

No truer word was ever said. Everyone is attracted to shiny things.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-29 23:42:23+00:00
Borg logic consists of framing matters of choice as "inevitable". As long as those with power convince everyone that technological implementation is "inevitable", people will passively accept their self-serving and destructive technological mastery of the world.

The framing allows the rest of us to get ourselves off the hook. "We didn't have a choice! It was INEVITABLE!"

And so, we have chosen.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-12-29 23:42:27+00:00
>And they are super safe on the road, meaning they can sustain the speed for prolonged periods of time and not break in any way.

They're not talking about reliability, but rather what will happen to _you_ in an accident at the speeds in question.

The forces involved on the bag of meat go up exponentially with speed. How much can your aorta handle before it rips open?
by coderenegade | 2025-12-29 23:42:38+00:00
My experience is that you get out what you put in. If you have a well-defined foundation, AI can populate the stubs and get it 95% correct. Getting to that point can take a bit of thought, and AI can help with that, too, but if you lean on it too much, you'll get a mess.

And of course, getting to the point where you can write a good foundation has always been the bulk of the work. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-29 23:43:13+00:00
Whatever tickles your fancy. You can take side of almost 40 civilized countries, topping the charts of human freedom, education, quality of life, intellectual pursuits, research etc. or the side of Axis of Losers, like Ruzzia, Iran, Best Korea, Venezuela etc. Your choice.

Around a hundred of the countries didn't designate Hamas as terrorists, but neither they support them, they are simply neutral and ignoring the issue.

And btw, your count is wrong. There are only 205 countries at all, plus or minus a handful maybe. Almost 40 of them designated Hamas as terrorists, so that leaves less than 200, not more.
by kulahan | 2025-12-29 23:43:38+00:00
I think this is almost certainly true. People aren’t built to be acceptable to an audience the size of a football stadium, they’re built to be acceptable to a hundred or so people at a time. If you can comfortably context-switch, it’s probably a much easier lifestyle.

I know that for me, at least, I like having one server where the comedy is not PC, one server where people seem to be a little more philosophical, one server for my real life friends, one server full of leftoids and one server full of rightards, etc.
by twelvedogs | 2025-12-29 23:44:14+00:00
yeah they made a lot of mistakes, the biggest one was not iterating on making it a good product. they just dumped it into the world, mostly formed and did nothing with it.

it had a lot of good ideas like you said it just needed to make it simpler to use, maybe even make the circles stuff not default though i didn't have much trouble with it

forcing everyone to use something that still had teething issues was the biggest screw up, if they wanted to integrate youtube they should have started with making G+ popular so people would actually want that, and yeah real names so dumb.

blizzard tried that as well lol. then some guy rang up blizzard hq and told one of the higher ups where his kids went to school and they suddenly realised full name is actually too much information
by pixl97 | 2025-12-29 23:46:00+00:00
Business momentum goes a long way, especially with Google being near monopoly status in their advertising. If you're flying at 50,000 feet and the engines fall off the plane it may be a long time before you the customer feel the impact. We can only guess Google is in a panic trying to figure out how they'll make their numbers next quarter and looking for something else to enshittify to increase profits in the meantime.
by TheCleric | 2025-12-29 23:46:04+00:00
Means testing has its own issues. How do you decide what the lines are? How do you design it for people just outside those lines that keeps it fair? Who enforces it? What happens when your means change?

Figuring all this stuff has a cost, both real (now you have to hire people to screen and enforce the means testing) and emotional/political (news story about a single mother who was rejected for making $1 too much).

So when advocating for means testing please keep in mind it’s a lot easier to not have it. Yes some who don’t need it will get it, but that can be better than a ballooned cost and some who do need it being blocked or dissuaded from getting it.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-29 23:46:34+00:00
As I see it, it's because it didn't want to.

Hear me out: let's say that generating a new and better compression algorithm is something that might take a dedicated researcher about a year of their life, and that person is being paid to work on it, in the industry or via a grant. Is there anyone who has been running Claude Code instances for a human-year in a loop with the instruction to try different approaches until it has a better compression algorithm?
by mananaysiempre | 2025-12-29 23:48:11+00:00
Once the compiler has generated a 32-bit relative jump with an R_X86_64_PLT32 relocation, it’s too late. (A bit surprising for it to be a PLT relocation, but it does make some sense upon reflection, and the linker turns it into a direct call if you’re statically linking.) I think only RISC-V was brave enough to allow potentially size-changing linker relaxation, and incidentally they screwed it up (the bug tracker says “too late to change”, which brings me great sadness given we’re talking about a new platform).

On x86-64 it would probably be easier to point the relative call to a synthesized trampoline that does a 64-bit one, but it seems nobody has bothered thus far. You have to admit that sounds pretty painful.
by tormeh | 2025-12-29 23:48:33+00:00
It's an infuriatingly accurate sketch. A team should usually have responsibility for no more than one service. There are many situations where this is not possible or desired (don't force your kafka connect service into your business logic service), but it's the ideal, IMO. More services mean more overhead. But someone read a blog post somewhere and suddenly we have four microservices per dev. Fun times.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-29 23:48:43+00:00
> Search died ages ago

You might want to let Google know that, because the number of searches on Google appears to continue to be growing massively:

https://searchengineland.com/google-5-trillion-searches-per-...

Those numbers look like the exact opposite of dead or dying to me. As does Google's growing stock price over the same time period.
by lukev | 2025-12-29 23:49:00+00:00
That's NOT AI psychosis, which is real, and which I've seen close-up.

AI psychosis is getting lost in the sauce and becoming too intimate with your ChatGPT instance, or believing it's something it's not.

Skepticism, or a fear of being outside the core loop is the exact opposite, and that's what Karpathy is talking about here. If anything, this kind of post is an indicator that you're absolutely NOT in AI psychosis.
by Alchemista | 2025-12-29 23:49:26+00:00
So you are really going with the unreasonably optimistic take that wealth will actually be redistributed to those that don't have it? Take a look at the slums in India and other periods of history where the lower classes lived in squalor and let me know how confident you are.

That said, I do not think gen AI in its current incarnation is actually going to destroy everyone's jobs.
by rvba | 2025-12-29 23:49:46+00:00
I am not sure if it counts as a debit or credit card, because from technology point of view the division is blurry.

They are perhaps prepaid debit cards.
But you can change and set a pin on them just like on the old credit cards. Because that's what they are - old technology.

They dont have a chip, so you have to swipe them.

Some employers give those gift cards instead of cash and I think those cards use the older technology in order to be cheaper (the chip costs few cents to manufacture). After you clear your card balance you basically throw the card away (very ecological), but if they wanted they can also add more money to the same card again. They usually dont do it since people lose the cards, so they issue new ones. So you get a lot of plastic.
Think of this as some pocket money every 3-6 months.

It says VISA on the card.

The companies could give cash, but for law and psychological reasons they give cards. The card is still better than the paper sodexo gift cards they would give out years ago that were a pain to use since few shops accepted them.
But still it is a pain, since you often end up with a small balance and you need to pay part with this gift card (to clean it up to zero) and part with cash.
by AuthAuth | 2025-12-29 23:50:05+00:00
Its not specific on him Ads just drive me insane. I haven't really formed enough strong reasoning(to me) to say they shouldn't exist. So I'm at a halfway point of "advertise somewhere that isnt in front of me".

The platforms I use are very NOT local so it'd be pointless. Mainstream platforms are invasive with their data collection that would allow his ads to be specifically targeted and do well there, getting put in front of people who might actual use his service.
by titzer | 2025-12-29 23:50:59+00:00
Indeed, UB is literally whatever the compiler feels like. A famous one [1] has the compiler deleting code that contains UB and falling through to the next function.

"But it's right there in the name!" Undefined behavior literally places no restrictions on the code generated or the behavior of the program. And the compiler is under no obligation to help you debug your (admittedly buggy) program. It can literally delete your program and replace it with something else that it likes.

[1] https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-undefined-behavior...
by peteforde | 2025-12-29 23:51:01+00:00
Cynicism about corporate accountability, regulation, oversight and legal consequences is a much larger concern than LLMs displacing people from what David Graeber would have called shitty jobs.

When I read a post that presumes that corporations are above the law and that it's a closed issue, I get sad. We can have nice things, but we must stop supporting governments that aggressively deregulate, prioritize mergers over public good, and compel their law enforcement to focus on hunting migrants instead of forcing corporations to pay taxes.

Talking about these systemic issues as though they are unsolvable because clearly corporations gonna corporation is maddening.

I don't understand why they don't jail corporate directors who are ultimately responsible for approving creative accounting tricks. If there's no penalty, of course they aren't going to do the right thing.

The greatest trick the devil can play in this era is convincing the public that their enemy is the least powerful people in society, not the most powerful.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-12-29 23:51:05+00:00
> It's all just efficiency gains and everyone currently employed stays employed? Not a single AI company wants that. Not a single tech company wants that. Not only do they want layoffs, they're already happening. So that's not going to work out.

Every single AI company and tech company would be 100% ok with just efficiency gains. They want to make money and proving efficiency is more then enough for that.
by ekr | 2025-12-29 23:51:35+00:00
I know I'm too being vague, like all other comments in this thread. But my suggestion would be to work on feeling well/good. The energy one emanates is what attracts or pushes other people away. It is of course a very complex topic, how to reach a state of emotional well-being, but you can start by taking better care of yourself, your health and your mood will also improve.

Once your general state of health/emotional well-being improves, you'll see that this state of craving others also fades.

So how do you improve your well-being/health? The cornerstone should be paying attention to your body, your sensations, feelings and listening. Resting well when tired. Eating well. Noticing your thoughts, especially negative thoughts about yourself. Learn to be kinder to yourself. If you do these things, you'll feel better and you'll become a bit more attractive to others.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-29 23:51:51+00:00
Sure, they're a bit ahead but Mercedes has level 3 self driving and they didnt celebrate killing a bunch of people (and not lowering the deficit) by prancing around with a chainsaw.[0]

I feel like people will be willing to wait until next year for the Alphabet or Mercedes version, but maybe I'm overestimating the average person's attention span or underestimating how far behind the competition is.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary...
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-12-29 23:52:29+00:00
Hi yresting, I hear you, but I don't think this is the best place to be looking for wisdom in this area - this community is somewhat well known for being head down in work.

I see some straight up bad advice being given in here (being obsessed with finding relationships, which is human need does not perpetuate the problem, it is a biological drive to solve it)

And some good advice: Be genuinely curious about others. Really listen to them. Look in their eyes when they are talking to you and when you are talking to them. (This has done wonders for me in trying to build community!)

For me personally, being christian has helped a little (church ends up being a source of community). Is there any spiritual or religious practice you could find a place of worship to be around others who share your belief with? I'm not trying to impose my faith, but rather my practice of being around those who share my core beliefs.

Another thing that really really helped me was getting over my preoccupation with older friends. My closest friend is 30 years older than me. Literally my dad's age. He is a consistent and reliable guy, and despite having somewhat different backgrounds, he's given mid-30s me a LOT of wisdom and encouragement.
by tEem21 | 2025-12-29 23:52:36+00:00
They are running their own trains and their own liveries. What happens a lot of the time in German regional services is that private operators run routes for DB, because they are required to offer them. There is some actual competition forming in German long-distance trains (Flixtrain), but the important bottleneck in Germain train travel is the rail network, which is owned and (at least supposedly) maintained by the recently formed DB InfraGo
by wyldfire | 2025-12-29 23:52:40+00:00
> Corporations already pay income tax, as do the investors in those corporations.

Of course!

> Just because productivity increases

Yeah I guess I'm taking a leap here where robots replace human manual labor and artificial intelligence replaces intellectual labor and there's no role for human labor anymore.

What's the just thing to do in this case? In my opinion, it's not "well we should really be committed to the existing rules because it's worked out well so far." If humans exit the workforce, the way governments work should change to answer such a significant change.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-12-29 23:52:45+00:00
<< A person was venting to a friend about being forced to use AI

I am not sure I understand the opinion piece listed, but it does have one fragment that I can confirm as happening and it is that the use is effectively being mandated. Take it as you will, but my company rolled out next year's goals. Can you take a guess as to what they contain and what people will do to accomplish those goals. Hang in tight. It is going to be a bumpy ride. And here is a thing, I actually like this tech.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-12-29 23:53:40+00:00
That, and psyops to saturate the channel, because it's considered a 'born secret', falling under the 'invention secrecy act' or equivalents elsewhere for reasons.

And lastly simple inability by most to perceive that, and other ESP/Psi stuff, maybe akin to so called aphantasia for people who can't visually imagine things.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-29 23:54:13+00:00
>when ads benefitted everyone, the buyer, the seller, and Facebook

As others have stated in this thread, it's called the acquisition phase. Get people hooked, build the network, make it be the place that people have to be at.

After that comes the exploit phase where said network effects make it hard to leave. You can rake in billions (trillion?) of dollars this way. Who cares if it eventually kills the company, you've made more money than god at this point.
by zepearl | 2025-12-29 23:54:20+00:00
> The main reason for this is lack of competition for DB in Germany

Cannot be - there is no competition in Switzerland, but things run pretty smoothly -> in the case of Germany I'd rather say: "lack of oversight, controls, 'konsequent zu sein'" -> in the case of Germany's DB I think that nobody at all levels gives a *hit about its problems.