Canada restricts hate speech, as does most of Europe.

Yet its the US with the speech suppression issues going on right now.

A medicine dispenser application for a nurse is still just CRUD operations for the most part. There’s nothing innovative about how the code would be written in an application like that.

You’re both correct, and also wrong.

A lot of code already exists. Or at least in a close enough form that it can be easily adjusted to address a new situation.

When someone comes up with an idea for a new App at this point, it’s almost never because it’s an entirely new branch of computing. It’s very likely just CRUD with a visual design, and then a small more complex algorithm to mix the data around behind the scenes.

What’s the difference between a dating app and an automatic meal plan builder? The algorithm doesn’t care about whether or not the recipe swiped back when it matches it up to you.

You’re right that they’re not going to be inventing entirely new things most of the time, that’s just not what’s needed of them most of the time.

Being concerned about at technology and being against that technology are not synonymous.

Companies and programmers who are using it for real world development don’t care about $1000. A good programmer will run a company $10k or even $20k a month for their salary. If they can add even 50% to the output from that programmer they will throw $2000 a month at it and not even blink an eye.

The Anti-AI folks don’t talk to that kind of person much. They’re not running in the same social circles.

Meanwhile, I have a working application I built to replace a shitty corporate android app for a product I own that’s used for my side hustle. Built using an agentic harness using a local opensource LLM. Coding such a thing myself was beyond my development skill level, and it probably would have cost $100k-200k to pay a programmer to rebuild it to the level that it’s currently at now.

I only park in one specific aisle at Costco. I will wait for someone to walk back to their car just to get a spot there.

And yet the federal government already mandated 3 days in the office, and is now trying to get it to 4 mandatory days in the office for all employees.

It’s all due to pressure from businesses who lost out heavily when offices weren’t used, everyone from the cafe or restaurant down the street to office furniture to architects got dragged down.

That has nothing to do with the technology. The last crash was caused by a global virus, and the one before that was the banking system…

For an equivalent prompt and similar quality answer, yes. Inference prices are dropping.

However, higher quality answers (or more complex prompt handling) are currently going up in inference price.

The fun part will be once quality hits a point where the average user (or even business) doesn’t care about the incremental quality change any more. Then it’s going to be a race to the bottom for performance per dollar.

Who cares if the not all companies or investors make money? They can make their bets, some will win and some will lose. I just want better tech for cheaper prices.

History loves to repeat itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Some back of the napkin math says about $50 trillion dollars in value for the top 1% in the US. That would pay off the whole US Debt of $40 Trillion, with about $10 trillion left over.

However, there’s a caveat here. Given that’s about 3.5 million people (1% of the US population) that only works out to about $14 million dollars each.

While that’s a lot of money, it’s not really an egregious amount of money. If you limited the 1% to keeping say $10,000,000 each (get rid of the obscenely rich) you would only have about $15 trillion dollars, which doesn’t even pay off half the debt.

We’re all products of our environment.

The ironic part about your statement is that you seem to have negative feelings towards your parents open sexuality, but there are cultures where that’s within the realm of normal. It just so happens that the environment you were raised in outside your home happens to consider the environment you were raised in inside your home dysfunctional.

Especially in areas of extreme poverty, there often isn’t enough space for privacy, so it just isn’t a thing. If you have a single room hut with 14 children… that didn’t happen because the parents snuck off into the bushes every time. It’s not considered improper or dysfunctional.

What defines an ethical company?

That’s an example of a false choice.

The most practical distribution is actually a mixture of the three systems divided up based on industry and other factors.

There is no reason we can’t have communism for the food industry, socialism for housing, and capitalism for clothes and movies.

Marx while influential isn’t the defining authority.

What do you count accomplished?

He’s done a ton of things, but if you don’t support him you probably didn’t want those things and so you didn’t pay much attention.

Duh. Propaganda is cheap as fuck right now.

When they start acting like it.

You can not shoot people with a gun, if you do not have a gun.

Logic does not get any simpler than that. Yet you refuse to accept it.

No, it really fucking won’t.

LLMs don’t do shit to reduce the friction of a knife attack, that’s not something an LLM can help with significantly. Youtube videos are a better source for “how to” knife attacks.

LLMs don’t help someone make bombs, go try and ask it, it will refuse on all the major platforms. If someone is going to learn enough about how to jailbreak modern LLMs, they can find the same information that you already mentioned. There’s no friction reduction here.

And you STILL don’t get the fact that without that gun, the Nazi incel shooter would have shot exactly 0 people.