Never use AI for friendship, it’s like admitting you only want yes-men in your life. I don’t want to be around anyone who uses AI for emotional support.

You can make ad blockers illegal, but you can’t actually enforce it unless you have a dystopian totalitarian government with a secret police to track down anyone using one. Does Germany have that?

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“Brian O’Kelley banked less than $100 million after selling his $1.6 billion startup AppNexus to AT&T—and gave the rest to charity.”

That’s stupid to just “give it away” because there are so many unsolved problems in the world you’d think they’d use it to start another company which improves recycling rates or invest in nuclear power.

Twenty years is a very long time, also “good” is relative. I give it about 2-3 years until we can run a model as powerful as Opus 4.1 on a laptop.

This is way beyond “mildly infuriating”. Shit should be illegal, it’s terrible for progress and an epitome of greedy capitalist bullshit.

Things have improved, people’s standards are just significantly higher. Remember when we didn’t even have clean drinking water? Nope, wasn’t alive back then.

Getting married and having a child is not a milestone of adulthood. Being in a healthy relationship is though. You don’t need to be married and have a child to be in a long term healthy relationship.

The bubble is irrelevant, that’s just capitalism being inefficient. When the dot com bubble popped it’s not like the internet died. We got things like Netflix and Amazon only after the bubble popped.

I don’t hate AI, and I think broadly hating AI is pretty dumb. It’s a tool that can be used for beneficial things when used responsibly. It can also be used stupidly and for bad things. It’s the person using it who is the decider.

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AI has absolutely gotten better by a significant amount over the last 2 years.

That’s fair, so your productivity has increased and error rate has lowered due to responsible usage of AI.

That’s an awesome take, finally someone with some experience and sense rather than “AI bad”.

That said, what’s realistically happening is one person who’s already in the industry is using AI, meaning that a new hire is no longer needed because their productivity increased.

What’s left for that computer science graduate that would have been the new hire that never happened? Blue-collar jobs indeed. There is much work to be done, just not the work that they had hoped for by going into +$80k in debt.

“Popularity” isn’t the right word. The title should be “Blue-collar jobs are safer while AI threatens office work”. The word “popularity” has the connotation that somehow people want to do those jobs more, they don’t, it’s just what’s available.

I read stuff like this and wonder, have you ever actually tried to use AI to do something productive? Like for instance, write a complex SQL query in a large database?

This means we absolutely SHOULD have mail-in voting. Basically take anything putin and drump say and do the opposite and you’ll be correct.

It doesn’t even mean anything, it’s never being paid back.