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If there is a civil war, I'm sure the enemies of the US would rejoice. It's like that onion article that's like "al queda decides to sit back and watch US destroy itself".

But aside from that, I hope the conservatives lose. And I hope after they lose, we learn from history. Don't just let them come crawling back into power like after the first civil war. The ultra rich and their lackeys need to be removed from power, and kept out.

Then again, the 14th amendment should disqualify Trump and a bunch of the republicans, and that doesn't seem to matter.

I'm pretty sure some places use the traffic ticketing as income, which is a huge perverse incentive. Or maybe they just have quotas. Or benefit from seizing property from people. The police are a problem, but i'm sure this community is aware.

I feel like the people doing traffic enforcement should be different than the police. Like, they shouldn't have guns and authority to search and murder. Just, like, a radar gun. and the authority to issue tickets and direct traffic.

If I had $9 million dollars I would be done. That's line a six figure annual salary if you put it in the safest of safe investments.

Rich people suck

The conservative mindset seems to be "What's good for me right now?". The law is good when it hurts their enemies, and it's unfair when it hurts them. A policy is good when it benefits them, and bad when it benefits someone they don't like. They are essentially toddlers. We should treat their ideas as seriously as we'd treat a two year old's ideas. Yes dear that's a really interesting idea to replace all the toilets in the building with monster trucks, but we're not going to do that.

Many people have found that using LLMs for coding is a net negative. You end up with sloppy, vulnerable, code that you don't understand. I'm not sure if there have been any rigorous studies about it yet, but it seems very plausible. LLMs are prone to hallucinating, so you're going to get it telling you to import libraries that don't exist, or use parts of the standard library that don't exist.

It also opens up a whole new security threat vector of squatting. If LLMs routinely try to install a library from pypi that doesn't exist, you can create that library and have it do whatever you want. Vibe coders will then run it, and that's game over for them.

So yeah, you could "rigorously check" it but a. all of us are lazy and aren't going to do that routinely (like, have you used snapshot tests?), b. it's going to anchor you around whatever it produced, making it harder to think about other approaches, and c. it's often slower overall than just doing a good job from the start.

I imagine there are similar problems with analyzing large amounts of text. It doesn't really understand anything. To verify it's correct, you would have to read the whole thing yourself anyway.

There are probably specialized use cases that are good- I'm told AI is useful for like protein folding and cancer detection- but that still has experts (I hope) looking at the results.

To your point, I think people are trying to use these LLMs for things with definite answers, too. Like if I go to google and type in "largest state in the US" it uses AI. This is not a good use case.

That's really not the same thing at all.

For one, no one knows what the weather will be like tomorrow. We have sophisticated models that do their best. We know the capital of New Jersey. We don't need a guessing machine to tell us that.

You shouldn't trust anything the LLM tells you though, because it's a guessing machine. It is not credible. Maybe if you're just using it for translation into your native language? I'm not sure if it's good at that.

If you have access to the internet, there are many resources available that are more credible. Many of them free.

You don't need AI for people to learn. I'm not sure what's left of your point without that assertion.

Oh, I didn't know about this one. Thanks for the link. Adding it to my mental dossier on police bullshit.

Oh my gosh I didn't realize the tweet was from Donald jr. I thought it was just some random internet idiot. This is worse somehow.

Other people have some really good responses in here.

I'm going to echo that AI is highlighting the problems of capitalism. The ownership class wants to fire a bunch of people and replace them with AI, and keep all that profit for themselves. Not good.

I really don't think creating for real artificial intelligence is a good idea. I mean that's peak "don't invent the torment Nexus"

Are you going to give it equal rights? How is voting going to work when the AI can create an arbitrary number of itself and vote as a bloc?

Creating an intelligent being to be your slave is fucked up, too.

Just... We don't need that right now. We have other more pressing problems with fewer ethical land mines

I mean, technically true in a "picture a spherical frictionless cow" kind of sense, but not something you're going to find in real life. Most people are susceptible to corruption. Cops have a lot of power, and we all know the saying about power corrupting.

On top of that, I'm pretty sure much of the training they're getting to be cops is bad. They don't spend nearly enough time on deescalation, I think , for example.

The new daredevil tv show goes into this

I'm pretty sure anyone who becomes a cop to "reform it from the inside" will either be corrupted or pushed out. There've been a couple high profile cases of cops trying to reform, and they were rewarded with prizes like being shot in the head or having dead rats left in their mailboxes.

I don't think I know anyone who's cheated. But I also hang out with a lot of polyamorous people, where cheating is possible but I feel like is less common.

Huh. I don't think I know anyone who cheats so I guess I got lucky. Your post is plausible

Is there a name for the thing where you'll make an argument with like 3 distinct points supporting it, and the other person will attack only one, and claim the whole thing is in their favor?

Like, "You can't cast two leveled spells in a turn, and you're silenced, and you're out of spell slots, so you can't cast another fireball"

"No, I have another spell slot from my ring. Fireball time!"

I mean, it's win-win for the assholes.

People don't fight back: they get deported. Win for nazis

People fight back: Nazis use it as justification for further escalation

At least defending yourself / the victims has a chance of saving them. Doing nothing won't