this idea of "brainwashing" is a convenient way to dodge personal responsibility. Next time I think about returning the shopping cart I'll remember I'm "brainwashed" and leave it in the middle of the parking lot. I guess the US people who voted for Trump, are blameless because propaganda exists. I guess the people who use AI tools to write code or make art, are blameless because advertising exists.
We're on lemmy right now because we chose to be on it. It doesn't take an ultra wealthy person to do that.
The idea is that once we are able to simulate universes, we become gods. Using AI to control fan speed just doesn't feel as powerful. Simulating a universe with control over the laws of physics in that universe, feels much more god-like.
So it follows the structure of the idea in your post more closely. This idea of humans becoming gods. And there are plenty of stories within the genre about how the lower beings would behave, and defy the commands of their gods, like your post also talks about.
Sounds like simulation theory with religion mixed in. The idea is that we could be a simulation (created by a higher race of aliens), and that we too might eventually make simulations of a lower race of aliens. There's a fair bit of sci-fi exploring this, like the famous Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy touches on it.
Fair point, I've struggled with VSCode as well. I started looking into using a local container with VSCode's remote dev add-ons (the ones you use for sshing into a remote machine but in this case it would just be a local container), and then installing all language servers and tooling inside the container. Do you have any experience with that?
its great for dev. It encourages you to use distroboxes to isolate your dev environments from each other and the host system, or even better use devcontainers for reproducible dev environments
Don't worry, you're not arguing, because you literally stopped contributing anything relevant to the glasses about 2 comments ago.
There's plenty of cases where the glasses save effort, I just listed a few off the top of my head. And clearly you agree since you said it's "lazy" and "not worth it", implying that yes, it does save effort. But since you never specified what downsides you are referencing when you say "not worth it", your defense is meaningless
So you're argument ends up being "It's not worth it, obviously". Unfortunately "it's obvious" is not a valid argument, especially for a technology that is only just becoming viable. And if you are too lazy or incapable to present actual evidence just say so.
Fair. I think if somebody gets brainrot from using AI that's their own problem, just like a programmer losing their coding skills after become a product manager. I don't see how that makes AI bad.
I don't see the point in automating activities that many people love doing.
Some people like the process, some people like the product. For those who only care about the product, why not let them use AI? Doesn't stop you from enjoying the process.
I admit that this is getting pretty far from the original discussion though so no worries if you'd rather end it here. I just have fun thinking about these things
As for productivity losses and environmental destruction, that's sort of what I was referring to when I said "bonus points for cheaper and faster development". The environmental destruction refers to energy usage. Productivity can be thought of as time usage. If AI can be cheaper than humans in both time and energy, then that's a win.
There's a related discussion about how the context here is mainly about finding vulnerabilies with AI. And that is one where AI does seem to be faster and cheaper than using humans. Since AI is now finding kernel vulnerabilities that have been lurking there for 15+ years.
Maybe code generation will get there too.
As an artist you might also be worried about how AI is trained on copyrighted data. But I personally don't really care about copyright
You could use https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send, but honestly since there's no well known privacy-friendly platform (catbox.moe is great but only for images/video), it's bound to look sketchy
All I care about is whether it works and is secure. Bonus points for cheaper and faster development. If artisan code gets us there, sure. If AI code gets us there, great. I trust Linus to know what works and what doesn't.
Coding conventions are fine but generally the language should enforce them by design. This is the difference between Rust and Zig. In Zig, you can ignore memory safety. In Rust you can't (or rather, it's hard to). Type systems are the same, you generally can't just ignore the rules. The compiler will complain.
Nobody is saying its necessary for survival. Yes, we can go back to the 1800s and still survive. That doesn't mean computers are bad. Whether or not it's "worth it" remains to be seen, since these things were only just released
This sounds like Kelly is giving the "you're holding it wrong" argument.
Languages like Rust make it hard to run into memory bugs. C and Zig don't protect you. Here is a good article about Zig vs Rust memory safety. If your language allows you to easily write memory unsafe code, then your language is partially to blame.
It's like why we have type systems. Sure, you could write bug-free code using untyped python. And you can blame somebody for "coding too fast" if they end up with a lot of bugs. But a well designed language with a well designed type system, could have prevented many of those bugs from being written in the first place
this idea of "brainwashing" is a convenient way to dodge personal responsibility. Next time I think about returning the shopping cart I'll remember I'm "brainwashed" and leave it in the middle of the parking lot. I guess the US people who voted for Trump, are blameless because propaganda exists. I guess the people who use AI tools to write code or make art, are blameless because advertising exists.
We're on lemmy right now because we chose to be on it. It doesn't take an ultra wealthy person to do that.