Oh please spare me the self justifying bullshit. You use the coding slop tool to make the slop code, it doesn’t make you some amazing developer. If it’s still around in a year it might be worth looking at. These sorts of things have a habit of self destructing, it’s why so many people avoid them. My car wasn’t made on the stolen data of humanity. I do my best to limit the use of LLM garbage, disabled the AI shit features on my phone. I use decent Operating Systems that have AI policies written with community consultation, I do what I can to shield myself from the cognito hazard. Just because heaps of people have herpes doesn’t mean we all have to embrace it you fucking sheep. The sooner this fucking AI bubble bursts the sooner people like you will stop throwing these projects into the world like unwanted puppies on Christmas Day destined for the pound a week after the novelty wears off. Now I am done with you, have your LLM write all the vaguely condescending dude bro comments in response to me you want, I can’t be bothered reading them.

Here you go then, feature suggestion: Disclose the use of LLMs to develop the project loudly and enthusiastically without evangelism. People who want to take a punt can, people who want to avoid it can, everyone is happy. If someone wants to let you know your project is the programming equivalent of a sweatshop, built on exploitation of other peoples hard work and contributing nothing but misery to the world, then having your LLM write a response won’t convince them otherwise.

That’s the way you want to code that’s your call. There is no ethical LLM, without exception they are all the result of a corporations theft, cheating and lies. We keep on finding proof that they have a negative impact on cognition and capability and that they shift the “cost” of projects. Used to be that to get a project off the ground the first step was to identify the problem you were tackling and then build out a minimum viable product, hopefully you would attract external talent to critique and or contribute.

These days, vibe code the fuck out of it and slap it on github that afternoon. Of course without that period to grow internally the whole project is on shakey foundations, and a lot of things that should have died off in the early stages get released to the public before anyone realises they will never catch up on the technical debt.

Look all of this is a long winded way of saying chuck your slop code disclaim out front. The people who want to engage with it will, the people who want to wait a year to see if the project explodes, implodes, or withers on the vine can do so. Also the people who choose not to actively engage with the corporate theft machine can just move along without feeling a compulsion to look at the code and comment on how the project is slop.

Kinda distressing how many “economic rationalists” I know that would gladly tank our economy in exchange for social license to be racist fucks. It’s pathetic really.

I started looking at cars today thanks to a Nissan CVT that decided it was time to be inconstant static and not transmitting a thing.

I have already had three people tell me they don’t trust Chinese cars… All three drive ridiculous American style trucks that are too big for Australian roads and car parks, but they want me to be negative about foreign influence on the automotive industry. How ridiculous.

Yeah the list of agents related files in .gitignore was the final confirmation, but it had the stank on it.

Yeah protecting their customers is definitely Apple’s prime motivation… Wouldn’t be about hoovering up even more of their data than the rat finks already do. There is no world in which any of this is pro consumer, it’s governments and corporations teaming up to gang rape consumers under the thin veneer of public safety and there are enough apologists out there trying to find some way of reinterpreting this as anything other than what it is. It doesn’t make children safe; it gets them accustomed to mass surveillance and data insecurity, it doesn’t force porn to become better; it just forces it and its consumers underground, it doesn’t stop criminal activities; it just forces them to become more sophisticated. Actual authoritarian governments have struggled to make this shit work, what makes you think governments as bumbling and inept as the US, UK or Australia are going to be able to succeed where they failed?

On the flip side if the goal is to set up direct feeds for the bulk of the population to have their real identity and banking details associated with every online interaction so it’s all accessible to the various organisations that want to spy on people, well they are smashing that out of the park.

Anecdotally here in Australia less than 10% of my kids year 8 class lost their social media access, the majority lost it for less than a day… Something like 40-50% of their parents loaded their ID onto various verification sites, which part of our age verification laws do you think were important based on that?

Is there some suggestion that Apple is going to do ID attestation or are they just harvesting ID? Either way the whole thing is slimy. They are a private company choosing to exceed their legal requirements, does anyone think this is for the good of their customers?

Takes a couple of litres of water before we get hot water. I have filled the kettle twice before the water was too hot to hold my hand under before. That’s roughly 3.5 litres of water just to get to the hot stuff. Luckily boiling water was a key consideration in our voltage level (actually that’s something I made up on the spot 😜) but more power equals good so… Its weird that this is a field that the US apparently just decided to let a large portion of the world be more “powerful” almost expect that if there were parts of the world settling on 240v the US would arbitarily decide they needed 500v.

Different country and all, but both are 240v in my neck of the woods, and since I live on tank water with mains water supply as a back up. Coupled with what I believe may be the most circuitous route from hot water cylinder to kitchen tap on earth (3 meters point to point yet seeming out to the local post office and back based on how long it takes to get hot water out of the tap) we use the Dishwasher to heat our water.

Which is all a very verbose way of saying “It depends on your circumstance…”

How much money does her dead husband spend on staying at Trump hotels and buying Trump cryptocurrency. Cause I think she will find that Donald J Trump is loyal… To the people paying him… For exactly as long as it takes to get paid…

Solution is clear Love. If you want Trump to hold the Saudis accountable you need to be more valuable than they are.

What alternative do they have? There’s no fucking way I am presenting my ID to any website/online service. It’s bad enough when a credit card gets leaked online at least you can change your CC number. The Australian government isn’t going to pay for cosmetic surgery when your biometrics get leaked, and they will only cover the bare minimum in terms of the disruption when your Drivers License leaks. I trust Steam would at least three quarters arse their data security but the companies they end up dealing with to do local verifications… Pfft assume they follow a Swiss cheese model for data security practices and you are still giving them too much credit.

Government could do something about that, but they won’t. Make the ID verification companies pay to change every bit of compromised info (they leak someone’s home address they have to pay for a new house on top of getting the maximum fine for each individual breach, I think it’s $850k per breach).

The government should have hit that Discord breach that happened around when the age verification laws came into effect with the maximum fine when they had a few thousand IDs insecurely stored $8.5 billion would have sent a clear message, of course it would have also led to zero compliance from every other social media company with their bullshit laws which is why they wouldn’t then and they won’t now.

So we get the worst of both worlds, the government shoving this bullshit through on one hand but having no interest in mandating proper data security on the other. It’s just going to lead to Meta, Apple, Google and Microsoft getting more personally identifying data they “grudgingly” hoover up, and them being willing to share it with all the governments of the world as the quid pro quo.

I almost hope to see a few politicians and their immediate family get details leaked so they understand how fucked it is when you aren’t you any more because some fucker stole your identity. I talked to a guy who went through it in his 20s and he told me it made him genuinely suicidal at stages when the banks would get ahead of stuff only to have another CC application land on his credit file.

They wanted so badly to incorporate key parts of the books that they were willing to change things around to get to them you mean?

Just a single example that bugged me: I will be the first to admit that Robert’s gender sensitivity wasn’t something to be shouted from the rooftops, although for the 90s when he started he is far from the worst.

However, he did have the plot point of a male chaneller in a female body with Halima. The show making Nynaeve a potential Dragon reborn candidate opens the door to the idea of peoples access to the One Power being based on their gender identity not their gender presentation.

It turns an unthinkable plot point in the latter part of the story into something Aes Sedai have obviously assumed can happen from the outset, and would surely be something they are alert to.

Almost like they didn’t understand the source material.

They seem to be really leaning in to having a very episodic format with the storylines having something to say about a specific topic and using a particular framing device to explore it. I gotta say that I can feel them aligning with TOS.

There’s 9 episodes left and they have to move a few characters along to smoothly lead in to the TOS remake that will likely happen to gain back an audience after the Ellisons push for Right Wing Conservative Trek and sink the franchise.

Should be amusing to watch all the grifters who have been bleating about Woke Trek proceed to not watch any of it once it’s been specifically made to pander to them.

I have watched the whole lot and honestly would have been better for them to make it a story inspired by some of the key events of the Foundation series. It’s a space opera like star wars, not a serious take on the events of the books.

That being said it is a spectacle. The whole Imperial rule of the Cleons is a really interesting concept when you let go of the way it doesn’t fit the books, and not just because of Lee Pace’s abs.

I rate it a hell of a lot higher than The Wheel is Time, that didn’t weave in an out of the original story line, it actively shat on Robert Jordan’s subtle and detailed world building. Every half arsed lazy strategy they used to write the dumbed down baby’s first fantasy tale version of the books made it more and more impossible to complete the story. The best thing that happened to that show was cancellation before they screwed it up any more.

If your prayers demand you be a bigoted anti trans piece of trash it’s time you rethought your diety. Any maximally good diety would be judging your hatefulness, so you are praying your God will strike you down, or you are praying to a hateful petty god.

I really enjoyed the last conversation I had with a Christian about this topic… He did not.

Can’t wait for the wave of people kicked out of stores because the AI shit the bed and confused them with someone else.

I just think the key to doing this stuff right is to make the executive level personally and financially responsible for any mistakes and any crimes, “Oh Coles shared too much info offshore and led to a data leak with identity theft… Hope the board enjoys spending the next 4 years in general population.” Oh and time to sell the yacht and the mansion to pay the fine.

Apparently they get paid the big dollars because they make the big calls, time for them to face the big risks too. That would keep the bastards honest.

Of course it will never happen, we like corruption in government way too much to make rich people face consequences.

It all used to be very easy in Australia, you bought the phone at a supermarket and gave bogus info when registering the SIM. Then the “War on Terror™” began and the government started taking things a bit more seriously started mandating the paper registration forms needed to be completed or the retailers could get in trouble. But your average supermarket worker wasn’t going to take the time to do that and it was way too widespread for the government to actually crack down on it.

Took a few years but the Telcos started actually paying attention to the fact that the majority of prepaid phones weren’t getting completed paperwork at point of sale so they just moved to make all sim card activations require online or over the phone ID checks.

Every bit of training I ever did made it clear it was all about catching terrorists, drug dealers and paedophiles, which of course means “We want all that juicy data without citizens asking any annoying questions.”

Just like radium has (a very few) legitimate uses, so do LLMs. Stop using them as a thought/research replacement and use it sparingly. Natural language processing for instance is a good use. But it should never be feeding that into another LLM to action the speech it has interpreted and taking all agency away from humans IMHO.

My fault, I missed the “Stop AI” at the end.

He is right, accelerating climate change, wealth disparity and economic collapse is likely going to unite a lot of us, probably not the way he suspects though.