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people on the AMA asked me what I think of AI so far. here's my current view: It's a quantum state of simulatenous being overhyped, underhyped and oppropriately hyped. I find I can't use it for low level C stuff without it messing everything up and slowing me down, while simulateneously producing really good code for fixing bugs and writing tests. I hate it and love it. I hate fixing the slop but I like that it is getting the code written that I don't want to write. One things for sure, it's not going away, and it's only going to get better.

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At my first job we had a table full of documentation that you had to comb through if you were stuck. The internet removed that table and made us way more productive, but we had to comb through the internet. Now AI is doing the combing through the internet for me and all I want is the answer to my questions.
I may be naive but the problem with these things is how easy it is to weaponize/fake training data Even in the best cases, like, oh you’re going to search the internet? With a stackoverflow thread from 15 years ago?
The real question is are you (or anyone) willing to pay a sufficient cost to make hyperscale AI economically viable? As to yet, I think this answer is no - at least in aggregate. In think for most cases, without fiat subsidies, AI is NOT actually a value-add (ie cheaper and better than alternatives) for most would be users. Also we are all being conditioned to accept mission critical defects from AI that would not be acceptable in any other industry or product - and I believe is largely because fiat Cantillionaires are completely out of ideas and are not just seeking out ritualized consent to confer upon them infinite “profits” with the absolution of all responsibility… #plebchain
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if true, that’s better than nothing I guess. Though I need to look up what SMRs are. However, based on a video posted to reddit, someone’s grandpa has already died from a respiratory illness related to AI data center pollution. And their young-adult granddaughter now has a serious respiratory illness. so, the point is, prevention should’ve happened at the start. Because COVID already happened… Canadian wildfires causing nyc skies to turn yellow already happened … plus a whole history of industrial pollution has already happened.