I won’t get into tit for tat internet debates anymore. Everything is conjecture here, we’re trying to forecast the future. That said, I was a BIG SKEPTIC until a couple of months ago. Tech changes quickly. Whatever your opinion of Ai, or any advanced tech, re evaluate it every 6 months. I manage data science projects for a living, if that’s worth anything. There’s way too hype, but I caution against opposite but equal hubris.

This will be unpopular, but he’s almost right. Most white collar jobs could be automated to the point where minimal human oversight is needed, with technology we’ve had for a decade. It hasn’t happened because developing that software has been prohibitively expensive.

What has changed is the cost of developing software for the “last mile” (logistics parlance) is dropping like a stone thanks to AI. This isn’t entirely about AI doing your job, but AI analyzing your job and finally using normal procedural tech to automate it. Your role may be reduced to supervision.

For jobs that need actual cognitive power, the quasi-reasoning capability of LLMs will likely supplement your work, if it’s not already. It’s unlikely that high stakes reasoning will ever be 100% automated, but surely that’s a judgement of the responsible party or more likely the irresponsible party.

This will create social upheaval and psychological torment for many. The obvious economic disaster of massive unemployment of educated people who are used to doing highly organized functions is making some people wring their hands. Certainly there should be a plan, but capital insists a race to the bottom immediately or risk being obsolete and worthless. First movers may cash out before everyone else loses their shirt.

It’s likely better to think of baal and yahweh as effectively the same deity for rival regional clans. Many psalms etc in the Bible are directly plagiarized from baal.

In some states the primary is essentially the real election. I can’t fault someone for voting in a republican primary when that determines their fate. In other states there are open primaries and the democratic candidates may be uncontested or you may want to simply vote against someone, like Trump, as many chances as you get. Suddenly you are a registered republican because of the ballot you requested.

This joke is at least 35 years old. https://www.physlink.com/Fun/IsThereSanta.cfm

Why are you babies still playing Mario Kart when Crash Team Racing is the superior game?

Our engineers can use Linux desktop if they want, and I suppose anyone else could as well, but Microsoft Office is really what keeps me on Windows at work. I could use the browser based apps for 80% but that last 20% is nasty. And yes, I use libreoffice at home. The cross compatibility just isn’t there without loads of extra time that I don’t have.