I guess it’s like the difference between a parasite that doesn’t kill the host, and one that does. The current breed looks like it’s going to kill the host.

I canceled my subscription. In part because fuck using AI to hurt labor, but also unemployment. Capitalists want us to spend spend spend, but they don’t want to give us any money to spend.

Maybe I spend too much time here because I knew what that was before I clicked it

Sometimes you do. Like monologue. Monogamy. Hm but I guess the root isn’t a whole word in those cases.

Huh. I guess no one says “monosexual”

This reminds me of the new vector for malware that targets “vibe coders”. LLMs tend to hallucinate libraries that don’t exist. Like, it’ll tell you to add, install, and use jjj_image_proc or whatever. The vibe coder will then get an error like “that library doesn’t exist” and "can’t call jjj_image_proc.process()`.

But you, a malicious user, could go and create a library named jjj_image_proc and give it a function named process. Vibe coders will then pull down and run your arbitrary code, and that’s kind of game over for them.

You’d just need to find some commonly hallucinated library names

Do the needs stay satisfied, or is it going to be like 2 years later we have billionaires and starvation again?

Many people have found that using LLMs for coding is a net negative. You end up with sloppy, vulnerable, code that you don’t understand. I’m not sure if there have been any rigorous studies about it yet, but it seems very plausible. LLMs are prone to hallucinating, so you’re going to get it telling you to import libraries that don’t exist, or use parts of the standard library that don’t exist.

It also opens up a whole new security threat vector of squatting. If LLMs routinely try to install a library from pypi that doesn’t exist, you can create that library and have it do whatever you want. Vibe coders will then run it, and that’s game over for them.

So yeah, you could “rigorously check” it but a. all of us are lazy and aren’t going to do that routinely (like, have you used snapshot tests?), b. it’s going to anchor you around whatever it produced, making it harder to think about other approaches, and c. it’s often slower overall than just doing a good job from the start.

I imagine there are similar problems with analyzing large amounts of text. It doesn’t really understand anything. To verify it’s correct, you would have to read the whole thing yourself anyway.

There are probably specialized use cases that are good- I’m told AI is useful for like protein folding and cancer detection- but that still has experts (I hope) looking at the results.

To your point, I think people are trying to use these LLMs for things with definite answers, too. Like if I go to google and type in “largest state in the US” it uses AI. This is not a good use case.

That’s really not the same thing at all.

For one, no one knows what the weather will be like tomorrow. We have sophisticated models that do their best. We know the capital of New Jersey. We don’t need a guessing machine to tell us that.

You shouldn’t trust anything the LLM tells you though, because it’s a guessing machine. It is not credible. Maybe if you’re just using it for translation into your native language? I’m not sure if it’s good at that.

If you have access to the internet, there are many resources available that are more credible. Many of them free.

You don’t need AI for people to learn. I’m not sure what’s left of your point without that assertion.

Other people have some really good responses in here.

I’m going to echo that AI is highlighting the problems of capitalism. The ownership class wants to fire a bunch of people and replace them with AI, and keep all that profit for themselves. Not good.

I really don’t think creating for real artificial intelligence is a good idea. I mean that’s peak “don’t invent the torment Nexus”

Are you going to give it equal rights? How is voting going to work when the AI can create an arbitrary number of itself and vote as a bloc?

Creating an intelligent being to be your slave is fucked up, too.

Just… We don’t need that right now. We have other more pressing problems with fewer ethical land mines

I don’t think I know anyone who’s cheated. But I also hang out with a lot of polyamorous people, where cheating is possible but I feel like is less common.

Huh. I don’t think I know anyone who cheats so I guess I got lucky. Your post is plausible

I mean, it’s win-win for the assholes.

People don’t fight back: they get deported. Win for nazis

People fight back: Nazis use it as justification for further escalation

At least defending yourself / the victims has a chance of saving them. Doing nothing won’t

I think a lot of people don’t get good information and then don’t connect the dots when they do.

There’s a lot of slop and mis/disinformation out there

• crawl stone soup. A classic rogue like.
• elden ring + dlc. Big masterpiece of the genre.
• the binding of Isaac (+ all the dlc). Huge rogue lite. Lots of stuff I haven’t unlocked yet.
• monster hunter (maybe world? I liked rise too though).
• if I could have online, guild wars 2. Otherwise, maybe the original doom. Especially if it comes with a map editor, fan made maps, or Oblige to randomly make maps.

I bought a couple games on epic when they were cheaper. I don’t think I’d do so again.

• the client isn’t as good. It’s slower, the way it paginates your games (I got a lot of free ones) is annoying. It really wants to show you store stuff
• less (zero?) Linux support
• don’t think it does the game recording steam does
• I don’t think it has the remote play together steam does

There’s probably other stuff I’m not thinking of. It’s just not as good a service.

If this joke was a person, it would be in 2nd grade and know how to read and write.