Always nice when they tell on themselves. Sure, a mod can block them on one board, but I can block them from my sight everywhere.

Shakespeare isn’t the point — it works. It has saved countless hours of production support investigations, and has made it possible to answer questions and catch problems no one has been able to do in years because it would be prohibitively time consuming. I’m answering questions in a couple of minutes that would otherwise have just been a finger pointed at another team.

Why can’t this guest log in? WAF problem because another team has a piss-poor page design? I would never have even thought of that. Forwards log entries to networking team for resolution.

“Penalty”? Fucking hell, that’s exactly how my AI development is done. My personal tools repo that isn’t shared with anyone has almost 2k tests that run every time there is a change. Also the documentation is updated, and multiple adversarial agents are run to challenge every decision from a security standpoint and a simplicity standpoint. And there’s another guard I’m forgetting.

If you’re going to code with AI, that’s the least you can do.

Winning the house and senate would curb the Trump admin considerably. The admin will be playing defense rather than offense and democrats can issue subpoenas. Are we surely going to stop contributing to the Palestinian genocide? Probably not, but there’s a chance the progressive wing could withhold support for key votes and demand concessions — in much the same way the ultra conservative wing of the Republican Party prevented them from passing some of their agenda.

The government must substantiate its allegations before depriving someone of a legal right. That shouldn’t be remotely controversial.

Frankly I’d forgotten about him. I mean not in the sense I had to look it up, but out of sight, out of mind. I could’ve lived the rest of my life and never wondered whatever happened to that guy.

They want violence because in violent times people get xenophobic and turn to right wing hawks for solutions. My bet is they are hoping to incite a reprisal before midterms.

Donald J. Trump Memorial Port-a-Potty can stay.

That’s a stocker at Kroger. It’s a fry cook at McDonald’s. You have to have work where the individual doing it is entirely irrelevant. And society has a lot of jobs like that. But most jobs require a degree of expertise that comes from education or experience or raw natural talent. These are the qualities that make an individual uniquely valuable to a business and their time is in demand for more than 24 hours a week, and they are better compensated in return.

Seems to me this is begging the question. Like, you are asking for speculative fiction so there are no wrong answers. But here you go:

First, society would stagnate because all intellectual work will be done by LLMs which only know how to do things the way we always have. So progress comes to a halt. Profits inevitably stop rising as 30% of humanity no longer consumes whatever it is people working are making.

Those 30% will have to just create their own society. Maybe it looks like Mad Max with the outsiders raiding cities for food and supplies, or maybe they take over a bunch of arable land and just live.

More and more people are pushed outside of the city-states of the rich until it’s just them hooked up to VR goggles and nutrition IVs and jerking off into virtual swimming pools of gold at a virtual Epstein island, living their dream, unaware that they are irrelevant and unmissed.

Everyone else carries on without them, and any time someone gets too rich or powerful they are promoted/exiled to go live in the gilded prison of the rich.

Do I? Or is that just your mental model of me?

Being able to predict the outcome of an event before it happens, and being able to manipulate the result by manipulating the factors contributing to the outcome is basically my definition of perfection. And science has a better track record than any other methodology.

The results are not perfect, but it is by far and away the best tool we have. Is that “perfect”? Yeah it’s close enough for me.

Science carries on where observation leaves off. You can’t observe a black hole, but you can observe the effects of one and use that to build a model that tells us more about the universe than observation alone ever could. Observation tells some people the earth is flat when anyone can circumnavigate the globe because science says observation is an illusion.

Science looks into why one observer says cilantro tastes like soap and another says it would be great in salsa. And by going beyond simple observation it can even tell you who will think it tastes like soap without them ever tasting it.

If one is an idiot, yes.

An observation is an anecdote. Unless you control for outside factors while reproducing outcomes, it’s the observer who doesn’t see clearly, not the model maker.

I make no bones about that. There is science and there is ignorance.

Also I would point out that you have a mental model of what a true believer is. I have one, too. And according to my model, there is no insult in believing something that can be established by evidence.

I don’t know what you’re looking to hear, mate. Drawbacks… a lot of idiots think they are doing science by googling shit when they don’t understand science at all. That’s not science’s fault though, it’s the idiots.

Um… when a researcher uncovers something that runs contrary to established science, they are more likely to be met with derision then curiosity. But sometimes researchers are idiots, too, and their science is self-evidently wrong. That’s why we have peer review rather than popular review.

Basically science is nothing but upside, however the people attempting it are sometimes flawed. And disproving a hypothesis isn’t celebrated enough. Finding out what you thought was so isn’t is useful information.

I literally just did. Are you having comprehension issues? Science is always learning and sometimes the stuff that is held as true today is overruled by later discovery.

I don’t need to remove their words if I can block them. They are digging their own grave, and I let them while denying them my attention.

There’s no weakness to science that isn’t also a strength. Science makes no guarantees. We are always learning more about the world and what we learn can contradict the best science could do a few years ago.

When I was a kid I was taught we would inevitably experience another ice age someday. Now science says we’re headed toward runaway greenhouse effect without intervention.

But also, when I was a kid, AIDS was a death sentence. Now we have medications that make it barely an inconvenience — as long as you can get the meds. We learned more.