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  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • I think you are a step further down in the a/b problem tree.

    The purpose of society is that everyone can have a safe, stable and good life. In our current setup this requires that most people are employed. But that's not a given.

    Think of a hypothetical society where AI/robots do all the work. There would be no need to employ everyone to do work to support unemployed people.

    We are slowly getting to that direction, but the problem here is that our capitalist society isn't fit for that setup. In our capitalist setup, removing the need for work means making people unemployed, who then "need to be supported" while the rich who own/employ robots/AI benefit without putting in any work at all.

  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • I agree with the sentiment, as bad as it feels to agree with Altman about anything.

    I'm working as a software developer, working on the backend of the website/loyalty app of some large retailer.

    My job is entirely useless. I mean, I'm doing a decent job keeping the show running, but (a) management shifts priorities all the time and about 2/3 of all the "super urgent" things I work on get cancelled before then get released and (b) if our whole department would instantly disappear and the app and webside would just be gone, nobody would care. Like, literally. We have an app and a website because everyone has to have one, not because there's a real benefit to anyone.

    The same is true for most of the jobs I worked in, and about most jobs in large corporations.

    So if AI could somehow replace all these jobs (which it can't), nothing of value would be lost, apart from the fact that our society requires everyone to have a job, bullshit or not. And these bullshit jobs even tend to be the better-paid ones.

    So AI doing the bullshit jobs isn't the problem, but people having to do bullshit jobs to get paid is.

    If we all get a really good universal basic income or something, I don't think most people would mind that they don't have to go warm a seat in an office anymore. But since we don't and we likely won't in the future, losing a job is a real problem, which makes Altman's comment extremely insensitive.

  • Tis a silly place

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  • Interesting way of reasoning: "They are bad because they block stuff they don't want to read, so I block them because what they do is stuff I don't want to read."

    Shouldn't you be blocking yourself if you follow that way of reasoning?

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • Have you ever seen a real-world project that actually uses OOP in any significant capacity? I haven't.

    When using Java, you might write "class" on top of your structs and modules, but actual OOP with self-contained classes that contain both data and business logic using inheritance and all the other OOP concepts, that's incredibly rare.

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • It's a double-edged sword and understanding when to re-use and when to re-implement is an art that goes wrong more often than right.

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • I've been working as first a Python and then a Java dev for the last 15 years and I can count the amount of times when I've seen actual OOP on one hand.

    I mean, we write "class" at the beginning of our modules and at the beginning of our structs, and we write "interface" at the beginning of our header files, but none of that is actually OOP.

    If you use Spring Boot, you are essentially doing C (not even C++) in Java.

    You have data-only classes without methods (at best there's a conversion method or something shallow like that) that work identical to C structs. You have service interfaces, which serve the same purpose as C header files. And then you have data-less collections of functions (service/controller classes), which work like .c files.

    Nowhere in this whole process are you actually using OOP techniques.

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • The KPI approach.

  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • Not talking about american things her.

  • Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate Error

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  • To be fair: Being "raised" differently does change a fair bit. I know a woman who's a body builder. She's way, way stronger than me. Male bodybuilders are still stronger than her, but she's quite a bit stronger than the average man.

    But at professional sports level it all comes down to minute differences, and genetics clearly play a large factor in there.

    Most man are also not genetically fitting for most professional-level sports. I'd even go as far as to say that most professional athletes just fit their sport and are also not fitting for most other sports. A football player and a swimmer are just built very differently.

  • Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash

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  • Sure, clanker.

  • Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash

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  • Try it out and you'll see. Amazon seems to be doing great with it.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • that’s not exactly popular at the moment.

    That's exactly the question. I personally thought in 2024 that a paedophile, senile 80yo felon who already lost an election (even from the incumbent position) already wouldn't be exactly popular either, but here we are.

    US presidential elections are so unpredictable, because there's only two actual candidates in the race, since there's no run-off or anything like that. There's no real way to know what's exactly popular at the moment until it's too late.

    Did Harris lose because she's a black woman? Did she lose due to unpolar positions? Did she lose because of poor campaign management? Did she lose because russian bots helped Trump? Did she lose because people "had enough of woke"? Did she lose because people just love dementia?

    It's really hard to know, and likely its all of the above to certain degree.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • Better than

    Give me the most balls-left big balls-fucking make my-day-powerful bitch-we-got

  • Banana

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  • Because you can make explosives out of that.

  • How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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  • That's kinda what Wikipedia does. They have a quite elaborate review process before stuff goes live: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reviewing

    In the English Wikipedia, that process is working quite well. But in e.g. the Welsh Wikipedia or other tiny languages, they might only have a handful of reviewers in total. There's no way that such a small group of people could be knowledgeable in all subjects.

    Welsh Wikipedia, for example, has less than 200 total active users, and there are dozens of small language or dialect Wikipedias that have <30 active users.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

    I don't think there's an actual solution for this issue until AI translations become so good that there's no need for language-specific content any more. If that ever happens.

  • How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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  • Hmm, the law begins with "Given enough eyeballs". So it's explicitly not about small-language Wikipedia sites having too few editors.

    It also doesn't talk about finding consensus. "All bugs are shallow" means that someone can see the solution. In software development, that's most often quite easy, especially when it comes to bugfixes. It's rarely difficult to verify whether the solution to a bug works or not. So in most cases if someone finds a solution and it works, that's good enough for everyone.

    In cultural fields, that's decidedly not the case.

    For most of society's problems, there are hardly any new solutions. We have had the same basic problems for centuries and pretty much "all" the solutions have been proposed decades or centuries ago.

    How to make government fair? How to get rid of crime? How to make a good society?

    These things have literally been issues since the first humans learned to speak.

    That's why Linus' law doesn't really apply here. We all want different things and there's no fix that satisfies all requirements or preferences.

  • Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots

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  • Since when do we post Amazon's investor marketing messages unfiltered here?

  • Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash

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  • DevOps is not executing the automation, but designing it. DevOps is not manually spinning up pods but writing the automation that does so.

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  • And this is the whole point of the controversy: The same word can have multiple meanings in different contexts and some people have trouble with that concept.