This is something I don’t think people are internalizing about (agentic) AI. Its disruption doesn’t stem from its “intelligence”, but in its persistence. We are very rapidly approaching an era of infinite agency, but our entire society is designed around people having limited agency. Everything assumes that a vast majority of people won’t bother to use their agency. Sending complaints to local government agencies, waiting in line for concert tickets, starting an online business, submitting pull requests, etc.; they all assume most people won’t bother; they’ll choose to use their limited agency on something else. Agentic AI will blow that all up; you’ll be able to point the AI at a goal on your behalf and not think about it again.

AI slop will hypothetically vanish as AI improves, but that doesn’t do anything to address the fact that we’ll all have effectively infinite agency.

No one said it was “fine”.

Calm down, pal. No one said that at all. If all you have is strawmen maybe sit this one out.

It negates any map that was designed specifically to counteract racism, because considering racism is, by definition, taking race into account. (According to their logic)

Notably, specifically designing a district map to give a specific political party an edge is not illegal. This will be a race to the bottom and all voters should be pissed. The natural end result will be states with GOP-controlled legislature will craft maps such that only the GOP can win and Dems will have to do the same to even hope to keep the playing field level.

People all across the political spectrum will lose any chance at representation, depending on how their political leanings compare with the legislature of their state.

That context isn’t important at all, unless you’re implying that the correction is wrong or misleading.

I think it’s useful to bring attention to the fact that this isn’t water being used by the data center for operations, but for its construction.

And let’s be real, there’s a ridiculous amount of misinformation surrounding co-called “AI”, both pro and con. Someone providing context and clarification isn’t something I’d complain about. (With the caveats above.)

I don’t understand the question.

The New Coke fiasco begs to differ.

The cynic in me imagines that they switch away from real chocolate, everyone will hate it, they’ll release a new product line that proclaims it uses real chocolate, but charge a premium for it, and people will buy it.

Has it occurred to you that all the searching in the world can’t help you find a website that isn’t indexed?

Obscure errors especially may not exist for you to find, and depending on how small and obscure the music is you’re looking for, it may not exist or be properly indexed.

Search engines aren’t magic.

Maybe? How niche are we talking? Are you saying the websites you need to find exist but you can’t find them via a search engine?

I honestly thought people didn’t have issues finding things via a search engine anymore. TIL people still struggle with it.

I never have trouble finding what I’m looking for online. Are you saying you do?

There is significant overlap between those two things. Depending on how old you are, you may not remember a time when people didn’t know how to search for information on the Internet; it was a skill people needed to learn. These days it’s pretty difficult to mess up finding what you want to find on the Internet, as the tools have been refined so much that it’s nearly idiot proof.

It’s much the same way with using an LLM. We’re at the stage where using an LLM is a skill many people don’t have, and it leads to incorrect outputs. I have no doubt that the same refinement will happen for LLMs as happened with search engines.

Is it really a miscalculation if a calculation was never done?

If your machine supports “fast boot”, you’ll need to turn it off.

“East Coast” doesn’t provide enough information. If you look at a map of America and draw a straight line south from the western end of Massachusetts, it doesn’t really touch another state at all, just the ocean. What really needs to happen is that the Northeast needs to be in a different time zone, and then we stick to standard time. But as it is now, it really sucks being in EST in the winter in the northeast, which is why so many of us prefer permanent DST, when given the choice without the option of being in a different time zone.

I dunno, that sounds pretty moderate to me.

I was recently looking into this myself, and I saw someone recommend FileFlows, but it was recommended for ease of setup/use, not because it’s open source. Figured I’d mention it, but note that I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet.

Yeah, it’s the distinction between “anonymous” and “private”.

It’s almost like capitalism is a problem.

Your cynicism isn’t properly calibrated.

If you look at the viewpoint of a CEO, you’ll see that they would be chomping at the bit to get rid of as many high paying technical or administrative roles as they can; it’s not like that extra money is going to flow down the chain.

Now, if there were a threat of LLMs replacing a management position, that would be a different story.

Edit: Apparently my reading comprehension is what needs calibrating. Turns out I agree! My bad.