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I thought everyone switched to cursor by now, why do people still use vscode?

Unless AGI is just a bunch of CS algorithms.

Kinda depends on how much is "a bunch" and how fast that AGI is

I’m not defending this guy, but many fathers leave because they don’t want to have family. It could have nothing to do with any of his other plans.

in the academic world 20 papers with 50 citations is worth more than one paper with 1000

It depends. If your goal is to get a job at OpenAI or DeepMind, one famous paper might be better.


Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?

Why would anyone think otherwise?


Because they knew Snow Crash was fiction?

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)


Until google puts in a lot of resources into training a scaled up version of this architecture

If Google is not willing to scale it up, then why would anyone else?


chatgpt is an example on why.

You think that this might be another ChatGPT/Docker/Hadoop case, where Google comes up with the technology but doesn't care to productize it?

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone. Rather, it requires a non-algorithmic understanding, which is more fundamental than the computational laws of quantum gravity and therefore more fundamental than spacetime itself."

Seems like quantum gravity theory might be missing something, no?


It's such a silly idea that whatever is simulating us would be in any way similar or care about what's possible in our universe. It's like a game of life glider thinking it can't be simulated because someone would have to know what's beyond the neighbouring cells and that's impossible! But the host universe just keeps chugging along unimpressed by our proofs.

Pretty sure it was always like this

No, "disability" used to be something of a stigma. Now it's celebrated, and people proudly identify with it.

If you're saying that people always try to game the system, whatever it is, then I agree however.


>If you're saying that people always try to game the system, whatever it is, then I agree however.

This isn't even true either. In the past there was a huge emphasis and effort made toward character. Going out of your way to do the right thing and be helpful and NOT getting special treatment but choosing the difficult path.

Now everything is the opposite it's about getting as much special treatment as possible and shirking as much responsibility and this isn't just people it's throughout the corporate and political system as well.


Yeah, good times create weak men, and all that. I agree.

I can tell you from personal experience as a person with a physical disability that it's still very much a stigma.

It's also very much possible for something to be both a stigma and an identity. In fact, the stigmatization can make the identity stronger.


Well, some kinds of disability still are a stigma, but here on HN neurodiversity/autism is celebrated as some kind of superpower, basically.

I'm aware. See for instance, VC Arielle Zuckerberg's comment that when deciding which founders to fund she looks for "a little of the rizz and a little of the tis" with "rizz" referring to charisma and "tis" to autism.

One could argue that mythologizing a particular characteristic is itself a form of stigma.


I'm all tis and no rizz

some disabilities have mostly lost their stigma, sure, in some places.

Many have not. Most have not, if you consider the whole world and not just California and Washington or whatever.


These engineers make enough money to comfortably retire by the time they are replaced with AI.


I’m not blind and AI has been great for me too.


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The smiley at the end doesn’t hide how awful your comment is.


So serious... you should relax a bit and work up on your humor reception/understanding (smiley intentionally left out this time)


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