I am starting to regain my trust in people. I know I'll regret it, but for now, it feels good! Sad thing is that it took a *financial* stick to hit them over the head to realise the scam that GenAI is. Blatant IP rights abuse? Pfft, those pesky artists should get a real job. Job loss? It won't hit me, for sure, I'm a pliumber, haha! Environmental impact? As long as it's not *my* backyard, I don't care. But electricity becoming more expensive? Oh, that's a no go! I'll take it, nevertheless. (yes, I excluded the tech bros who becase "10x more productive, trust me!", I don't even care about them any more)

As I wrote: it's memorized like a recipe, without understanding! "Multiplication before division" and "addition before subtraction" is just wrong. What's a mental crutch worth if it's misleading? Or even worse, if it's not explained properly in the first place? If it's viewed as "if I just remember this, that's good enough, I don't have to learn anything more"?

Millions of "2 + 3 * 4 - only 1% can answer!" FB posts, and accompanied (wrong) answers, beg to differ. The over-reliance to the stupid mental crutches prevalent in the USA such as PEMDAS turns out to be even more horrendous: many think "MD" means "Multiplication before division" because M is before D. Same for AS.

I just checked my "kids" (20 years old), both looked at me as if I were an idiot and confirmed that yes, of course they can read the clock. Since kindergarten. I made them prove it, now they're kind of pissed. So... no, I don't think this is really a world-wide phenomenon.

Why would you think he'd invest his personal wealth into the company, instead of subsidies? Besides, Tesla was a KING of subsidies for a LONG time. Subsidies don't only directly help the manufacturers: a subsidised purchase price also helps the consumer make the decision to go with the EV. In Europe, we are seeing EV sales going down after the governmental subsidies were taken back.

Haha, right - the first time my wife and me went over to USA, our country was not yet within ESTA (or ESTA didn't yet exist, not sure). In any case, we had to go to the embassy for the "grilling". The "grilling" was then kind of OK, you still feel like a shit that needs to persuade the all-powerful underpaid government employe that you are worthy of entering the holy land of the USA, but we were used to bureaucracy. The waiting time was excessive though, we spent the entire afternoon waiting, despite having scheduled appointment. And I remember the "WANTED" placates for Bin Laden.. like in the Italian western movies.

IQ is a rather meaningless measure of one certain aspect of a personality. You can have IQ of 130 and still be a complete tool, incapable of teamwork, cooperation, unwilling to learn, with terrible work ethics, and unable to contribute in any meaningful manner.

Because the cartels are just waiting and preying on unsuspecting US citizens to do bad things to them.

Entering the USA was always a kind of a humiliating process, with multiple know-nothings underway with the power to deny you the entry for no reason whatsoever. And yet, I went through the process three times already, once for business, two times as a tourist, trusting that it won't be THAT bad after all, and that the most of it is just a show. I trusted the law and order in the country, and was not disappointed in the past. Nowadays it all became much more volatile and uncertain: even though I *think* I "have nothing to hide", can I be certain, that at some point in time, I didn't like a cat video by a person who turned out to be a second-removed cousin of an "left wing extremist antifa" (heh, as if you people knew what left wing extremist even means)? Or that I didn't repost a JD meme at some point? Or that my name is not merely the same as the name of some blacklisted shmock? Why should I even take the risk of being denied the entry or even put under arrest or sent to El Salvador? The benefit of entering the USA is by far not as huge as some seem to think it is. So no, I'm definitely not giving anybody my "last 5 years of all social media accounts"... to be honest, I probably don't even know which one I have created at some point in time, just to use it once-twice and never again. You have pushed it way too far, the hurdles are just not acceptable any more. We understand, we are not desired - fine with me, I'll spend my time and money some place else.

LOL, tbh, I read your prompt way too fast and sloppy, and I thought you *are* asking for a "Stardate" as in "Star Trek Date", with some obscure references to earth calendar to seed it "correctly". :)

I understood that it *does* cost you, not money, but rather your time, to keep fixing the stuff.

Yeah, only in the one case, you're helping a fellow human being learn something and become good in the profession. In the other, you're blowing money and resources away for absolutely no other gain but to increase bottom-line of a company. If you kill all junior devs because "you can replace them with the AI", who are going to be the senior developers of tomorrow?

It seems that the experiences shared here largely confirm the findings

What exactly does this tell us? That the LLM was trained on this example / code fed by tens of thousands of trekkies and was therefore able to regurgitate it. Would be interesting to see where the code snippets are originating from

This is a very refreshing new aspect, never thought of it!