How long until all of them merge is a mega-corporation? At this point big chunks of these companies are owned by the same investors so their interests are already aligned.
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Apple, Nvidia and US govt can provide the required funds if they have confidence in its ability to deliver. These companies will benefit from breaking current monopoly of TSMC.
> Apple, Nvidia and US govt can provide the required funds
When the first tough about investing is to go to big corporations and the goverment instead of going to investors is a telling about how nowadays the economy works.
I love that the Orange guy has opened the door to the nationalization of big tech. I hope that the next president is bolder on this regard. If all these companies depend on monopolies to exists, they should be state owned/controlled.
Frieren commented on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero mindflash.org/coding/ai/a... · Posted by u/AntwaneB
> Before LLMs, provided that your team did some of their due diligence, you could always expect to have some help when tackling new code-bases. Either a mentor, or at least some (even if maybe partially outdated) documentation. With LLMs, this is gone.
I love the conclusion. When no human holds the knowledge it is like the bus already struck everybody at the company.
I have worked in teams that share knowledge often and extensively. Anybody can go on a vacation with little disruption as other's can take the tasks. Everybody is happier and projects work better.
(If your first tough is that you can be replaced easily and you will be fired. Then you live in a dystopian class-warfare country where the owner-class will fire you because they enjoy making the working-class suffer. I am sorry for you, but have hope. That can be changed with good laws and employee protections.)
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What is people doing instead of reading? Social media is designed to be extremely addictive. It taps also on teenagers fears of failing to fit in.
I love HN for being a place for discussion. But most social media is a one way trend setting communication. Miss it and you are out of touch with everybody else. And it moves fast.
What people need is time for themselves with their own thoughts. That creates the opportunity to read and do other things. A phone that requires 100% of your attention span does not allow for that. And big tech puts billions on tracking and data gathering to better know what keeps people hooked and dependent.
Any capability that we lose as a society is going to be hard to get back.
I understand that AI companies want to embed AI in everything and make society dependent on it. Like cigarette brands AI companies want a world addicted to their technology.
But as a society we should be more careful before throwing well known methods for fancy new tech. Even more important is to take a step back and think when AI companies are pushing for "not lose the AI race", "speed up adoption", and the rest of FOMO scaremongering.
Stop and think is what I expect from professionals even when CEOs push for AI as fast as possible.
It's almost like...people can change their mind about something?
I like Bernie too but he is nuts. He's a far left voice who is often quite rational, we need someone like him to bring things back towards the center, but I doubt he'd be a good president.
> He's a far left voice
As European I see Bernie as center-right, but I guess it is a matter of perspective.
Frieren commented on AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
Not the first time someone said something insane about data centers.
I present to you: underwater data centers! https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr...
Realistically, with the cost of spaceflight coming down steadily, this might actually be physically doable. We'd have to figure out the whole physics of it all, or maybe not, OpenAI can just ask ChatGPT for help!
Hard to say if you are being ironic or you really believe that bullshit. "/s" helps with this situations. So, I will assume that you are for real believing that or you have invested a lot of money on AI and the hype profits you. In that second case it seems immoral to write such claims without any disclosure.
Frieren commented on AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
> The feeling of instability she describes is a hallmark of the generative-AI era.
This is by design. Power-hungry billionaires thrive in chaos. God governed countries and the rule of law do not allow for the level of inequality that we are seeing today.
AI is just another tool to sell fear to citizens in the developed world. Fear to lose their jobs, fear to lose the opportunity to invest in the next big thing, fear to be outgun on wars, fear to not be part of “A new era for humanity”.
I love when well articulated and informed journalists put into words things that many of us only understand instinctively.
> Earlier this month, OpenAI released GPT-5, to mixed reviews. Altman had promised “a Ph.D.-level” intelligence on any topic.
When investors put their money on words and fantasy not on sound business we are in for a hard landing of the economy.
Because it's never been about ideals. It's about power and financial/economic dominance. Politicians will align themselves with whatever ideology will get them the support they need to accumulate power and money. Whenever they take actions that seem to violate that ideology, they'll use spin and propaganda to justify it so as not to anger their base.
> Politicians will align themselves with whatever ideology will get them the support they need to accumulate power and money.
Not all politicians are like that. The Republican party has been very focused on that.
"All politicians bad" thinking damages the work of the many people fighting for a better and more just world. There are even politicians in conflict areas that give their lives trying to fight cartels or terrorist groups. "All are the same" is degrading for us all humans.
In the Swedish schoolsystem, the idea for the past 20 years has been exactly this, that is to try to teach critical thinking, reasoning, problem solving etc rather than hard facts. The results has been...not great. We discovered that reasoning and critical thinking is impossible without a foundational knowledge about what to be critical about. I think the same can be said about software development.
Sweden is the 19th country in the PISA scores. And it is in the upper section on all education indexes. There has been a world decline on scores, but has nothing to do with the Swedish education system. (That does not mean that Sweden should not continue monitoring it and bringing improvements)
From Swedish news: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/swedish-students-get-hi...
- Swedish students skills in maths and reading comprehension have taken a drastic downward turn, according to the latest PISA study.
- Several other countries also saw a decline in their PISA results, which are believed to be a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic.