we are all free to listen to eachother’s point of views, then arrive at our own conclusions .
Sure, but I'm not going to pretend for a second that the pseudointellectual masturbation of "rationalists" is worth a damn just because their narratives were useful to capalist oligarchs so some people call them "experts" now. What a farce
The existence of enshitification isn't an argument that every attempt to make something profitable via enshitification will succeed.
Even standard boiler plate I can typically bang out faster than asking the AI to do it
The people that claim it helps with boilerplate clearly never took the time to learn how to sed/awk, mustache templates, write a perl/python/etc script, use the regex find/replace in their editor, use the keyboard macro in their editor, use snippets in their editor and I'm sure other ways that aren't immediately coming to mind that have existed forever and won't hallucinate. They're the ones that were not highly skilled in the first place and they're vexingly successful at convincing newbies and laymen to listen to them about LLMs instead of the actual skilled people that actually know what they're talking about.
including dozens of experts who work directly in AI governance and AI technical fields.
All of those people are fucking clowns and you know it. They're these morons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalist_community
If I need to look through a massive set of data like Google for something thst I can only describe with an explanation, the LLM will do a much faster job actually finding what you need rather thsn spending an hour manually sorting through SEO slop.
You could also use any other search engine since Google intentionally wrecked their search, and use the adblock list that filters out the seo slop. Just as efficient and less glacier melting
I don't believe that for a second. Everyone I know that talks about being more productive is just pushing extra work onto more responsible people by making output that looks like work but isn't sufficient.
Everyone I work with that uses it is worse at their job than before they started using it, and I've lost the ability to teach them how to actually do good work because telling the c-suite they're 10x now (even though they're producing only slightly more code and more issues) makes the c-suite happy. I could believe that some people have made small improvements to their workflows but its obvious to anyone competent that it's not as big as an improvement as they'd have you believe and the vast majority is just people getting addicted to the slot machine, deskilling, and creating inferior output.
technology is incredibly useful and probably beneficial to society
For what? It's not reliable enough to actually automate anything and people that use it regularly inevitably stop checking the output and start falling victim to hallucinations. It's pretty good at rifling through social media posts which I don't think is good for society and it's OK as a frontline support system but even that they normally go too far and just make it infuriating
In summary, CEOs (of large public companies anyway - your mom and pop plumber could also be a CEO) are not smarter than the average person. Just more amoral and having the connections to be CEOs
Not really. You can't just walk by with a cell phone to configure a flash drive that is already plugged in and convert it to an attack vector. The method of setting up the attack device is the shocking part. You don't even have you push a pairing button on the speaker to connect to it.
My dad is in his 70s and he spends most of his time playing open world shooters/rpgs. He just finished borderlands whatever is new and started his 5th or so witcher 3 run. He also plays free to play puzzle games on mobile (to my disappointment)
My point being that I think "games for the retired people" is just games....
The problem with the model of exclusives driving console purchases is that it only worked when people could afford multiple consoles. The combination of consoles and games being more expensive and them trying to double dip by requiring subscriptions for online play means most people are going to pick a platform instead of getting several like they used to, even if they would want to play some exclusive they can't.