The defeatist mindsets expressed in these comments seem more like a way to shed any sort of personal accountability for participating in a solution that doesn't kill billions of people than a reflection of reality.
There are, but none that will be accepted. Will you give up your car, your air condititioning, your AI agents, your uber eats, your year-round fresh produce at the supermarket, meat as a regular part of your diet, all the imported stuff you are accustomed to having?
As a family:
- We don’t use Uber Eats
- We don’t fly
- We bike in the city (long tail bikes to carry the kids)
- We don’t use A/C (and resist so far installing it) and try to do some passive ventilation, shading to limit the house getting to hot in the summer (it’s gets sometimes around 42 C where we live)
- We try to eat local food
here's a thought experiment but it's really more of a personality test of fantasy vs reality
let's say they somehow make fusion happen next decade
so with "unlimited" "free" power do you think there will be
A - more peace
B - more war
To me it's pretty obvious.
When I was a teenager I hoped for a Star Trek future
But after the past decade especially, I realize that will never happen, that people will support suppressing and murdering thousands, millions of innocent people to feel a fake sense of satisfaction
The same reason that fake religion persists is the same reason why the human made part of climate change will never be solved
Shit processes. I don't know what places most of those people work at that crap is being merged into production at insane pace. You would expect any serious piece of software would be important enough to have the code be reviewed by at least one human.
Kind of.... I don't know. To get placed such requirements from the top down and not fight back, just take it head on, not even maliciously, don't even oppose it on a technical basis, just be like "yeah, you've now gotta ship faster or you're left behind, so therefore LLMs must be the future!", no critical thought attached. Is this shit coming from experienced engineers?
Preposterous we're relying on "it's better because I feel like", "dudes who don't use it are falling behind at work", "they ask for it in job interviews".
But the company in the article isn't filling the gap. Farm owners want the technology. They don't want to be held hostage over the technology when it needs maintenance, repair, or adaptation after the initial sale.
