Lol this board is fucking joke.

Start insulting people when you have no arguments == blinded by ideology

Everything you said is basically wrong.

Many worrisome aspects with this in terms of smelling like a super bubble.

Even being bullish on LLMs, it is not obvious this is the right paradigm even for AGI let alone something beyond AGI.

Seems like it could be 10 years from now "Remember during the peak of the bubble when Zuckerberg was paying researchers 100 million dollars to try to make a super humanoid robot out of just a mouth?"

I don't see how this would work either.

Banning algorithmic recommendations would need to ban search engines.

Social media is ultimately just a website. Anything I can think of quickly gets down the road of banning the web browser and/or banning email.

The only solution is people have to have the freedom to use these stupid platforms or not. People have to have the freedom to be stupid on stupid platforms.

Brazil is going in a much different direction.

Exactly. As a non-software engineer, people talk about software as some fine art on here while my experience as a user is that most software basically sucks in one way or another.

Your experience is a perfect reflection of reality. Most software is not well done.

In trades I found people were very opinionated about the Right Way to do things, but we tended to cut corners constantly there as well. People who work in a craft seem to like the idea of doing things right more than they actually do things right in practice. We end up with gaps in our flooring, ugly solder joints in our plumbing, creaking decks, cracked concrete, and a cookie disclaimer that returns every time you refresh the page.

> In trades I found people were very opinionated about the Right Way to do things,

My experience of moving from tech to doing a lot of home renovations and dealing with hundreds of trades people is that it was just like tech. 90% of people in 90% of environments are just trying to make it work so they can collect their pay-cheque and go home.

High quality output in any domain is a result of stumbling across the 10% of genuinely passionate people, and creating the 10% environment for them to want to be passionate in. If you don't luck out with that, everything will still work, it'll just be a bit rough round the edges.

It doesn't take super intelligence to give my elderly father a bath or wipe his ass.

I think the main problem is we would almost need an economic depression so that at the margin there were for less alternative jobs available than giving my father a bath.

Then also consider that say we do have super-intelligence that adds a few years to his life because of better diagnostics and treatment of death. It actually makes the day to day care problem worse in the aggregate.

We are headed towards this boomer long term care disaster and there is nothing that is going to avert it. Boomers I talk to are completely in denial of this problem too. They are expecting the long term care situation to look like what their parents had. I just try to convince every boomer I know that they have to do everything they can do physically now to better themselves to stay out of long term care as long as possible.

I am decent at chess but barely know how the pieces in Go move.

Of course, this because I have spent a lot of time TRAINING to play chess and basically none training to play go.

I am good on guitar because I started training young but can't play the flute or piano to save my life.

Most complicated skills have basically no transfer or carry over other than knowing how to train on a new skill.

But the point here is, if i gave you a guitar with a string more or less. Or a different shaped guitar, you could play it.

If i give you a chess set with dwarf themed pieces and different colored squares, you could play immediately.

This is just not true.

There has never been as many ways to make money off being creative as individual as right now.

This board just loves to romanticize the past to an absurd degree and then conclude free money fixes everything.

It is basically every non-software discussion on here. The present sucks, the past was better, free money.

The title is ridiculously misleading when people are donating to charity.

It is sort of entertaining to see the gymnastics writers (or LLMs) do to get clicks.

To the contrary, I did not even send this post to my mailing list. It wasn't exactly a throwaway post but it was something more like that. A post I didn't expect anyone to care much about.

Sorry, I shouldn't have presumed. But the prior probability these days is so high. And I don't blame anyone for doing what they need to do get attention, especially if it is putting food on their table.

I just assume the job of the designer is make everything look the same. Creativity is the domain of the artist, doesn't seem to have anything to do with design.

I wouldn't knock the corporate designer costume anymore than knocking an investment banker for wearing a suite.