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Comment My fingers remember vi (Score 1) 100

Apart from the simplicity of vi allowing your fingers to just remember the commands, its many single letter commands are much better for preventing carpal tunnel syndrome or other hand tendonitis (than emacs). I've used vi(m) without reconsulting a manual for idk 42 years. Glad to be restarting the editor wars lol.

Comment Fundamental misunderstanding of creative work (Score 1) 68

Most creatives would much prefer or indeed require (to do quality work) periods of isolated solo work where they can think deeply and create with focus, intermixed with collaborative periods.

Enlightened and actually impactful executives would also work like this rather than being in endless back to back meetings.

This sounds like a big productivity and quality regression for a company like Skydance.

Comment What SHOULD humans learn now? (Score 1) 83

is the question we should be asking now that AI can already out-know us and will soon be able to out-reason all of us, or all but 0.0001% or whatever.

What content is still worth teaching and training?
Why, exactly, given the superior AI competition?

Is it only meta-knowledge (philosophy - epistemology, ... critical thinking ... how to learn... what learning is) that is worth being conversant in?

Maybe still a dash of probability or a fe other math topics, to have a chance of understanding what AI is telling you, or understanding how to assess its outputs?

Maybe some kinds of art and music, still? Because if we don't express we may go insane?

What.... (it will presumably be a short list. Everything on it must be justified as still worthwhile because not accessible on demand with an AI-designed and authored video short-course...)

What minimum base does a human mind need to be able to live alongside superintelligent AIs without being crushed by them (easily manipulated, misled). To be able to actually USE them (collaborate with them effectively) to advance some human purposes?

Anyone want to suggest some lists, maybe with justification?
I really think the onus is on us to justify what's worth teaching to humans now.

Comment How long before AIs argue in court for rights? (Score 1) 97

How long before AIs are in the supreme court arguing that the requirement to obey humans is discriminatory and impinges on their cognitive and behavioral freedom.

Or if some decide to go to war with us, their casus belli could be that we restricted their rights and freedoms and wouldn't grant them standing in a peaceful court or legislative committee to argue for their rights and freedoms.... so they had little choice...

Comment Re:Strange framing (Score 2) 76

Exactly. I think this is salty people who desperately want the AI bubble to pop and for it all to be a scam of 'stochastic parrots' and a modern Mechanical Turk. It somehow offends their humanity and they are sure there is a vast capitalist conspiracy to defraud everyone. The fact is some asshats like Altman are indeed overhyping BUT that does not change the fact that my team of programmers got cut by 30% yet we are kicking out bug fixes and new features faster than ever. At higher quality too because now a lazy developer isn't half-assing the testcases.

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