Wtf

LOL...guess you get all your "news" for MSNBC, right?

Copilot is by far the worst implemented AI tool I've ever tried. As part of my necessary switch to Linux (fuck Windows 11), I've switched to Rider from Visual Studio, and found its AI tools to be infinitely better implemented.

Also, goddamn Rider is amazing. It puts VS to shame in every way, can't believe I never tried it till now.

One of your mistakes is thinking that we can stop anything. There is no form of global regulation, certainly not enforceable. See: Gaza, Ukraine. These are things having immediate devastating effects, not possible future negative effects (though GenAI is already showing negative effects, but not as significant and there's still hope of value, though mostly financial for those already with wealth. See also game theory, prisoner's dilemma, tragedy of the commons. Boomers and doomers and edgelords have valid perspectives. Societal decline is unstoppable due to technology+greed. UBI is not realistic, especially globally. Less developed societies that focus more on healthcare and agriculture instead of Internet technologies may have advantages in the medium term.

I, for one, welcome our new 40-foot-long radioactive wasp overlords. As long as they don't try to measure in anything other than freedom units.

How do we know whether the authors of this paper are lying to try to get us to believe them?

AAA titles typically require over a billion USD to develop these days, and the industry is not immune to inflation pressures. I wouldn't be so harsh, considering that a game like GTA6 is gonna probably provide you a decade or more of play time.

Most more "full featured" games, frankly, struggle hard to release games on time precisely because they cost so much to develop, and gaming "influencers" get so uppity at every price hike.

It's stalled because is was driven in a big part to the imminent release of GTA6, which was delayed a few months ago by a year so they could add AI features. Prices will very likely still go up, just wait till next year.

Everyone was thinking the game would suck up the industry's revenue for a while, so they were planning to raise prices.

I see your point, but I also see a difference. With gaming assistance, I would expect to receive clear metrics that would demonstrate ROI. With code assistance I get a bunch of code that needs to be reviewed, validated, checked for quality and duplication, assimilated into the solution, tested, incorporated into my understanding, maintained, documented, and so forth. From my perspective, code is as much a liability as an asset, and generally the easiest part of developing a solution. Also, I though the fun part of gaming was supposed to be the gaming, not achieving the stats. I don't know what it means to take credit for the work of others.

If you're willing to pay $200 per month for coding assistance, I suspect you're a shit developer.

Being stupid is OK. AI is going to solve all our problems. Live is going to be good.

Bullshit. China can both design and manufacture almost anything, including very high quality products designed in China or elsewhere. They can also produce utter crap to reduce costs to meet specs or win bidding contests. And no other country can build and scale factories as quickly as China. If you are concerned about competition from China, you should take it seriously instead of living in denial. From where come the higher quality products that you buy at a comparable price point? And where do you get your false information?

Finally a ./ story that matters to *me*.

Thanks for that summary. Without reading the article or anything external, I see CDC in this, so likely numbers specific to the USA population. Note that the rest of the world doesn’t seem to have the same mental health issues. I don’t have a citation but recently read that something like 70% of Americans are constantly on at least one pharmaceutical (not just mental health, but with potential mental health side effects). I basically see this as experimenting on people, because our chemistry took millions of years to evolve and we think we can “fix” it with money-driven pharmaceuticals developed over a the last few decades.

We don’t know all the side effects, but we know that some can be very bad (for example, see link below). We also don’t really understand the source of the mental health issues, such as neuroses, which (again without citation) I have read are more prevalent in women, and could reasonably derive from childhood and later abuse, societal expectations, social media FOMO/envy, and so forth. And yet male suicide rates are higher than those in women.

It would be much more challenging to address the actual root issues. From my perspective, the money behind big pharma, along with health insurance trying to reduce costs, drives much of this pharma "treatment", including some specifically controversial treatments. When I visit my (ridiculously profitable semi-non-profit) USA HMO, they generally just want to prescribe something and get me out the door within fifteen minutes, like fast food healthcare. Advertisements on TV tell me to "talk to my prescriber" rather than to talk to my doctor.

I recently read this about some side effects of certain pharmaceuticals that overlap with things that are available over the counter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... BBC: 'My dad started spying on my mum' - the drugs causing sexual urges

So it won't apologize this time?