Readit Newsfogus commented on Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024 blog.fogus.me/2024/12/23/... · Posted by u/janvdberg
Love Fogus, but zero mention of how LLMs impacted programming in 2024?
LLMs have had very little influence on my programming so far.
I'm very much not a fan of Q-anon and related subcultures, but the sandy-hook award of $1.5 billion is obviously ridiculous, and is clearly just a government/institutional exercise in dictatorial/systemic power.
There is no possible way that someone ranting on the internet can cause 1.5 billion of emotional damage or whatever the claim was.
In particular, the libel (and it should be libel, making claims that are not true, rather than 'defamation' which is merely slurring them), should be from a credible source. Alex Jones is obviously not a credible source in this, or any case, and is unlikely to have caused any material harm (loss of jobs etc) to the 'victims'.
I mean, good riddance to Alex Jones, but the tools and methods used were entirely inappropriate to a liberal democracy, where you prevail with better arguments.
This isn't the 18th century anymore where the dissemination of arguments barely traveled outside of the immediate vicinity, this is the globally networked firehose of disinformation blasted right in your face 24-hours a day. Relying on better arguments to win hearts and minds in this environment is hopelessly naive.
fogus commented on Meteorologists get death threats as hurricane conspiracy theories thrive rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/geox
And MTG is 50 and she has to know what she's spouting is nonsense, so why does she spout it? Is her audience really that dimwitted, or is there something else at play? For example, is this part of some mass brainwashing ploy? Are they Jim Jonesing millions of Americans? If so, then to what end?
If you can establish a base of support populated by the easily fooled then you can grift them indefinitely.
fogus commented on Rust wont save us, but its ideas will glitchbyte.io/posts/rust-... · Posted by u/signa11
No programming language is more important than its best and worst ideas.