Some people genuinely have a problem with it.
But I’m convinced that the majority of it is just: It’s embarrassing (and therefore costs social capital) to defend it.
So therefore: If you attach it to something else you want to attack, you just gave yourself a strategic advantage.
Corrections are the piece that the public sees, but liability has more to do with being able to prove in court that you took reasonable steps to make sure you were providing accurate information.
News outlets are liable for what they publish. LLM vendors should be as well.
Yeah, inertia is baked into the legislative process here. It’s silly.
The purple line is the bottom 90% of the population by income.
So basically, public opinion does not impact policy in any statistically significant way.
Being a Luddite isn’t going to help anyone.
Not taking a side in this thread, but you might wanna learn more about the Luddites. Their story is very relevant to today.
Here’s a chart of how likely a policy is to become enacted (Y axis), based on public support of the policy (X axis):
“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”
Soooo, programming?
I can’t do basic, boring, uninteresting stuff.
But if you tell me “I’m not sure this is technically possible. Like, it should be, in theory, but nobody’s ever done it before…” I will work on that for 56 hours without eating or sleeping.
It’s definitely AI writing. Still a decent summary of how the GCC security situation is changing.
A lot of it probably isn’t legal, but who’s gonna prosecute them?
Whatever specific class I am, my play style is definitely “glass cannon”.
Patching a library is fine if you’re building a final executable — something where you know what the final dependency graph looks like ahead of time.
It’s not fine if you’re building a library. You don’t know if a consumer will also want to use an unpatched version of that library, and depending on the scenario that could result in duplicated instances (each with their own internal state), failure to build or load, or mismatches in data layout or function definitions.
I would avoid using a library like that if I could.
Of course, sometimes the person who can make that decision is the creator of npm itself, and says “No I don’t believe I will”: https://github.com/isaacs/jackspeak/issues/20
Anthropic, without an ounce of self-awareness: “Hey, just cuz you used AI to change it doesn’t mean you can copy our stuff and use it to compete against us!”
Oh absolutely, I understand that the language allows implementations to violate my proposed equivalence — I’m saying that’s a bad implementation (some might say a bad language, for allowing bad implementations, but I don’t necessarily agree)
They would rather see zero.
Dan, thank you for this question. It’s really at the heart of the work that I’m trying to do now, which I call thanatocracy. So, it was John Locke who said political power is making laws punishable by death.
And I think anyone who’s studied Marx or studied other political economists will see that the human surplus arises from reducing the value of the workers to zero, as close to slavery as you can get. So, that’s the matter of value theory and political economy. But I think it rings true for most everybody that the boss is trying to reduce wages, the workers trying to increase them.
And the boss, unless he reaches some opposition, will go down to zero. You know, as long as labor is plentiful, as long as a new generation is created, or as long as immigration is possible, slavery is the tendency of capitalism. When I say slavery, I mean reducing the value of the human life to zero, to nothing.
From The Dig: Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh, Feb 17, 2026 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000750229034&r=1662
Hot take: if a += b is not the same as a = a + b, you done fucked up
I’ve seen that name a bunch but never bothered figuring out who that is. Does this mean I put it off for long enough that I no longer need to?