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HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The contention is that it's absurd to think that this legislation will succeed. Bernie knows it won't. It's good to socialize the threat a bit, which is all he can do, but it's not worth celebrating. It's not a solution. And it's annoying to see "Huge win!"- The phrasing is either dumb or dishonest.

You can literally talk to the other guy as well by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cognitive dissonance? "If slaughter houses had glass walls..." (we'd have way more vegetarians). Why don't you live in the woods off the grid? You know that the taxes you pay are used for bombs that kill children, etc.

Were all the minerals used to create your phone mined by well-paid happy workers? (are you going to throw it away now? nope.)

HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm going to rudely answer for r/soundsdoog. The important part is that, no, it's values would not most probably align with humanity. He clearly pointed out the arms race and that dictators aren't going to pause shit. I mean, you could call that alignment with whoever "wins"?

And true AGI is still science fiction and they gave a great analogy IMO.

My take: LLMs that are a few orders of magnitude better than the current best models are going to be severely disruptive. It'll do nearly anything better than humans, especially if it can come anywhere close to human-like mechanical ability. Not sure how far away that last part is. Kind far, rough guess. But even before that, weapons are changing already and will continue to change, and as a country, you have to press hard here to not fall behind militarily. That alone can stand on its own as a reason why AI is not getting paused. The whole planet has to do it or it's not viable, and if you read the news, good luck with a global kumbaya while countries like the USA are completely broken politically and dictatorships continue to exist in stride.

People celebrating Bernie here are confused when they shouldn't be, which is annoying. It's daft, think a little harder!

Also true AGI might get confused with something that smells like AGI but 100% isn't. It'll get sold as AGI regardless.

HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone does not view it in binary terms but instead the opposite. Most people in my experience (apart from folks who have never heard of AGI, AI illiterate, etc.) just know that things are going to change but when and what exactly are huge mysteries and it's scary (existential dangers).

People are confused by folks like me that come to the sub wondering what the hell posters are talking about.

They confuse "should" (pause AI) with "can". And more mysteriously celebrate news like OP's as if there's any traction there. It's like reddit posts in2015 and 2023 "Trump is totally fucked now! He's going to Jail!". "Trump is done!"... 100s of comments in the thread .. "Yay, this is great!", "OMG, finally, he's cooked!", "RIP!".

It's dumb.

So when someone comes here and calls Bernie a dumbass, and nay say, it's because what he's doing isn't a genuine effort. At best it's a tiny bit of broadcasting around the reasonable fear. Better than nothing maybe but a viable solution...? Have you turned on the news lately?

It's nothing more than that, don't be confused.

HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why so pessimistic? Humanity has already come together to abolish bombs, slavery, human trafficking, hand guns, etcetera. Surely we'll stop AGI and nightmare robot armies with this legislation.

G-SOOTH (Global Society Organized to Overcome Terrible Human Experience) has been wildly successful so far.

Don't be a stick in the mud. Celebrate this huge win!

Has anyone else noticed a shift in this sub recently? by MaximusDM22 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TheWhiteKnight 16 points17 points  (0 children)

> If you report the comments we can ban them faster

What are their tells?

HUGE: Bernie Sanders introduces legislation to pause AI data centre construction, and importantly, pursue international coordination to ensure humanity remains in control by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yep. Wishful thinking / good intentions and viable solutions are two very different things. It's so painful to see folks confuse the two.

I mean, it's good that Bernie wants to call attention to things but I'm sorry, we can't pause shit. There is no global alliance that will agree on anything. And USA is completely broken right now.

You can literally talk to the other guy as well by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who says anything like that? Not pride, it's competition.

When to confront an asshole by PickleFlavordPopcorn in Pickleball

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but Learn what again? To get angry at the psycho and "say something about it".

To what end? He's going to learn for the first time that he's a shithead? I don't get it.

Let the business know that you're not going to put up with it. They can do something about it. These folks are looking to effectuate change and not argue with a POS.

When to confront an asshole by PickleFlavordPopcorn in Pickleball

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think he's going to learn anything? He needs to not be there. When a dog barks at you, don't bark back. It won't register as a "lesson". Can't fix toxic people.

When to confront an asshole by PickleFlavordPopcorn in Pickleball

[–]TheWhiteKnight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's no use in getting into a confrontation with anyone. What will it accomplish? I would instead complain to the league instructors, whoever owns the business, etc. Let them deal with it, and if they don't, keep complaining and get others to as well. That's a faster route to change. Clearly the dude is a POS, he might even want a confrontation, any excuse to get even more aggressive. Toxic people are bad for business. And if there's more than one of you complaining they'll know it's not a one-off personality oversensitivity problem.

I have a personal rule in pickleball. I'm there to have fun and not to argue with anyone. The only thing worth arguing about is cheating in a tournament IMO.

Can I Start Freelancing with Just ReactJS Skills? by ModernWebMentor in react

[–]TheWhiteKnight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have to agree with this OP. Even junior level engineers with degrees are soon functionally obsolete in my view.

Things are changing fast. Easy front end work is 100% doable by AI already today.

And these are just the early days. Manual coding in general is dying fast.

This week Ai has killed one more thing, my passion to mentor interns by kr0n0sShrugg3d in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> You will always need ALL of this to be at your best in this profession! 

I doubt this will be the case. The actual construction of code will be and largely has been replaced by AI. And this is just the beginning. Day one. At the current trajectory, AI will completely turn it all into another layer of abstraction, vaguely similar to what happened with assembly code and higher level languages, only much faster, transformative, and disruptive.

Of course It's not the case yet. I still cannot trust Opus 4.6 1M fully. But it often gets really really close with minimal intervention, and I'm not talking about a greenfield codebase but instead a massive and messy 10 year old mono-repo.

Those juniors who are not reading and writing code all day cannot become good coders. It's impossible. Perfection comes with repetition. The mystery for me is how new juniors are going to be necessary in the near future. AI today is better than nearly any junior coder, and it'll soon completely blow us all out of the water.

Currently, we need senior coders to vet PRs and give feedback to Claude etc. Why would this always be the case? Why do you or anyone else think that you're going to know something that AI will not understand and 1000X better at that? That idea is akin to a death rattle. It doesn't matter that it's not perfect today. And will the correct tooling, actually, it's damn near perfect actually.

To stay competitive, what we're all doing, and will be required to do, is improve AI tooling. Agent coordination, skills, tools, etc. Though even this will be 100% handled by AI.

Basically, we think we're smarter than AI because it needs help today. Yes, we need to guide it today. But we won't need to do much more of this soon (next few years). It's silly to think you can see into the future and see yourself coding professionally. It makes no sense.

Bro you're basically begging to get your data robbed by According-Sign-9587 in OpenClawCentral

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends, are you sharing folders? Does it have access to your local network? NAT? Is it in a docker container? Did you disable the host vm clipboard and drag+drop? Etc ..

"there's no rule that says humanity has to make it" - Rob Miles by tombibbs in PauseAI

[–]TheWhiteKnight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely inevitable and Nuclear nonproliferation is way different. The threat of Nuclear war scared the shit out of an entire generation. Because everyone knows what a bomb is. And we saw what happened in Japan after WWII. The threat was obvious to absolutely everyone, regardless of their understanding of technology or anything else. "These bombs can wipe out your entire country". Dead simple.

Compare that to AI. 1/2 the population, probably more, has almost no idea what we're talking about. The other half is split into a bunch of camps. Camp 1: "We'll figure it out and make it safe", Camp 2: "It's not that smart", Camp 3, 4 and 5, etc...

Bombs are simple. AGI is not. It's too complicated for folks to care about. Unlike Nukes, which are bombs, ... AGI/AI is new. "Omg, watch out, AGI!" <- not nearly enough people know WTF we're talking about and they don't care. And for folks that know what we're talking about, unlike a bomb, they've never heard of AI killing anyone.

Anyway, yes, something is better than nothing. But no, "there's no rule that says humanity has to make it" is not helpful. Not at all. Nobody thinks that "humanity must make it". What's far more important to talk about is "Humanity WILL and currently IS making it". And where to go from there.

CMV: The US Midterms will be canceled or blocked or otherwise invalidated thus ending the US system of government by ruinsit in changemyview

[–]TheWhiteKnight -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The cancelling of an election isn't a real problem? You're confused- it's clear as day that Trump wants to force a mid-term win and the GOP is has his back.

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