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l0new0lf-G commented on What's going on with gene therapies?   nehalslearnings.substack.... · Posted by u/nehal96
l0new0lf-G · 2 months ago
Could it be just that gene therapies should be publicly funded?

Taxpayer money has paid for a substantial percentage of research around the world, and it doesn't seem necessary that we rely on profit-driven private companies for the actual therapies when they could be done at publicly funded hospitals too.

l0new0lf-G commented on Ask HN: How do you personally overcome AI doomerism?    · Posted by u/carlos-menezes
l0new0lf-G · 5 months ago
I know for sure that we are not going to lose our jobs to it, because it still takes a lot of knowledge to check, fix, and deploy code ,and especially complex one.

It also is so that it often takes a lot more time to accurately describe the problem and the solution you want to in natural language, than it takes to just write the algorithm yourself.

What is very likely to happen is that there will be fewer positions since a lot of hirings only happened because there was a software hype, resulting to more programmers than really needed.

It is also very likely that the wages will be decreased, since any 20yo with basic coding knowledge will offer himself to work as an vibe "coder".

Corporations prefer having dysfunctional products than paying high wages, so you can guess what will happen.

l0new0lf-G commented on Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?   annehelen.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/moonka
l0new0lf-G · 5 months ago
Very good and insightful article, but suffers from a weakness: it implies that the problem can be solved by everyone just buying from the ones whose workers are doing the job well.

This is not the case. The evidence that the "free market" does not "regulate itself" (at least not in favor of the many) since the 2008 recession is beyond refutation: we need pro-worker governments stepping in.

l0new0lf-G commented on Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"   cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transc... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40
l0new0lf-G · 5 months ago
Finally someone put it this way! Natural language has embedded limitations that stem from our own mental limitations -the human mind thinks sometimes too abstract or too specific things, and misses important details or generalizations.

As a programmer, I know first hand that the problems or even absurdities of some assignments only become apparent after one has begun implement the code as code, i.e. as strict symbolisms.

Not to mention that it often takes more time to explain something accurately in natural language than it takes to just write the algorithm as code.

l0new0lf-G commented on Notes on the Crystal Language   wiki.alopex.li/CrystalNot... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
l0new0lf-G · a year ago
I spent some time experimenting with the Crystal language, and it seemed very promising. But the absence of capabilities for parallel programming (as of 2022) made me abandon the attempts to learn better Crystal, as it felt pointless.

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