Shifting to a position below where it previously was? I don't get your point... Is there's a new bar? What would you say the new expectation is that doesn't build on previous core skills?
The dangerous thing is when you’re a novice and can’t identify the BS. That’s why for people with “good” and “expert” skill, it’s not a huge boost. They can identify the BS, and what’s left is modestly helpful.
The highest danger in using AI comes precisely to people who stand the most to gain from it.
Exactly that. Novice don’t notice the BS. But they see the output and it looks magical. The UI is working! Hardly any time to code that in
Then they send that PR for a review by a more senior person. And that senior person doesn’t even know where to start on how to explain why it’s all wrong and likely to collapse in prod.
Tons of good use of AI. But tons of bad use of it. And when it’s bad and people don’t notice it, that gets dangerous. So because of that, now we spend a lot more time in doing reviews. Essentially creating a new bottle neck
I’ve come to this same conclusion. Either we accept an internet crawling with bots and astroturf, or we abandon the anonymity and have an internet with only verified humans.
It is a false dichotomy that abandoning anonymity must happen with verifying humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge-proof . The only trick is who holds the infrastructure for the proofs. A single person or small group like, oh, the one(s) behind World Coin? People on ycombinator might know that one. Sufficiently decentralized, FOSS, /true/ non-profit (like Wikipedia), maybe. (Ironic I mention Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales' WT.Social never did take off.)
Further, the challenge is not completely autonomous bots that are somehow separate of humans, never has been, all code on Earth has and will have a human imprint even in the wildest AGI fantasies. The first false dichotomy is anonymity and veracity, the second false dichotomy is human and bot. And tho biggest challenge comes from a specific human-bot combination, the Cory Doctorow Reverse Centaur (though Centaurs also complicate things). One human can suddenly impact the "volume" of discourse, like a magic hidden megaphone that somehow no one can detect at a dinner party where the lights are too low to see who is talking. /And/ if there's a door check at the party, it's easy to transport someone who makes pennies a day to show up at the door, look like anyone you want, and then come inside with a magic hidden microphone that you provide them.
I think it's less about proving human, more about proving /reputation associated with an entity/. It's not about whether "awbvious" is human, but whether "awbvious" is committed to acting human. Committed to not use a hidden, magic megaphone. Committed to not using hidden, magic megaphones with others. Which I am.
Or a different sort of Internet appears. free and open internet is polluted with commercialization and greed, eventually cleaner spaces will be created with stronger restrictions like geo, social trust chains, and cost of posting going up so high it’s uneconomical to spam. What good is a single international internet for social media when everyone is bots?
it doesn't take bias to spot the corruption in this government; yes, there have always been problems, but the level of corruption and grift in this administration is truly unprecedented (you'd have to go back to before Civil Service Reform Act to find possibly comparable levels). but if you have examples from previous admins, feel free to explain how they're comparable
Truly, so unprecedented, that it is being ignored, how could this be real? The mind boggles. So bad, that it isn't believed.
The Attorney General is on the payroll of Qatar, and Qatar 'donates' a 400 million dollar jumbo jet, and the Attorney General signs off on it? Come on, who is swallowing that. And yet it is now old news, who cares.
Past administrations would return gifts that cost 50$ just to stay in the rules.
Kristy Noem's $220M ICE self-promo ad campaign that is awarded no-bid to a company founded just days before the deal, which it turns out subcontracted the work to a company with long ties to her and run by the husband of her spokesperson
Remember that Russia is never as strong or as weak as they appear, and if they ally closely with China while Europe and the US is divided, it may mot be a good time for us in the West.
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