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I do not think it is fair to label a fear of communism or socialism as irrational.

And we had people believing he was telling the truth long after he changed course. His lie cost us all.

Where is the lie?

The rightful share is radically lower than it would be set democratically. Taxation above a certain point is a form of oppressive injustice.

Well, obviously that's your opinion as to what constitutes a just, rightful share. But other citizens have different ideas. And in a democracy, a middle ground is found. And that's considered just by democratic principles.

I love everything about Orion except it steals focus when I click a link in e-mail or another application. Does anyone know if there's a way to change the behavior to be like Safari's background link behavior?

It's just Eliza. Once you toy with it and see the patterns it is just Eliza with more power behind it.


Why do you think it's like Eliza?


I have no reason to help the richest companies on earth adjust weights at a cost to myself.


That statement shows a strong left wing bias. You just happen to agree with the BBC.


This wouldn't be so absurd if AI worked in even trivial cases.


Can you be more specific? What are the trivial cases you’re talking about? AI just doesn’t work? Coding agents are not saving anyone any time?


don’t bother with these questions, same people will say excel can’t get anything done and it sucks :) people that know and (more importantly) take time to learn are doing amazing sh*t with it


It's not that it doesn't have some use cases that "work", it's that a lot of the output is at "AI slop quality" It's more work to turn it into something good than start from scratch. Look at all those lawyers and judges submitting stuff that has laughable citations on non-existent cases.


Sure but OP said that it doesn't even work in trivial cases.

Most of the anti-AI people have conceded it sometimes works but they still say it is unreliable or has other problems (copyright etc). However there are still a few that say it doesn't work at all.


If something isn't reliable, I don't think it works at all. I'm trying to work, not play a slot machine.


Are all the tools you use 100% reliable?

Cause I use things like computers, applications, search engines and websites that regularly return the wrong result or fail


I’m not really sure how you envision AI use at your job but AI can be the extremely imperfect tool it is now and also be extremely useful. What part of AI use to you feels like a slot machine?


damn! with this attitude I’d be left using abacus…


It just totally is different from my own personal experience which leads me to believe people just are lamenting poor usage of AI tools which is very understandable.

But nuanced and effective AI use, even today with current models, is incredible for productivity in my experience


I’ve been hacking since the ‘90’s, it is the most remarkable productivity boost we’ve ever had. I feel awful for people that don’t take time to learn…


I expect it makes a big difference what kind of work one does. For me, working with a legacy codebase for firmware, with 1000s of lines of C in each module, AI is very slow (~5-10s response time) and almost none of the code is acceptable.

I do however find it useful for getting an overview of dense chunks of confusing code.


Intellij guesses the functions I want to write plenty. I don't think it's useful to try to use AI for complex or nuanced needs (although it gets close in middling cases). I think it's useful enough.


Disagree. Coding--I've heard enough bad things I'm not interested in trying it. However, I recently ran into a use case where it's good: drawing illustrations for articles. Thus you can't say it never works.


It depends on the coding domain, but you're basically saying you've never tried it but you're certain Mitchell Hashimoto, Salvatore Sanfilippo, Armin Ronacher or Simon Willison, all supremely accomplished coders, must be misguided when they explain how it's made even them more productive.


I should never spend more effort reading something than the author spent writing it. With AI-generated texts the author effort approaches zero.


TBH that sounds amazing.


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