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I'm not trying to detract from the OP's point but if the author turned the lens they are using to evaluate whether AI videos are harmful or not onto the videos one usually encountered on the internet pre-AI videos, I think they would find most internet videos are harmful by those same metrics. It's propaganda, rage-baiting, trying to manipulate you into buying something, etc. It's no wonder that's the sort of content we see being generated.

Others pointed out the value of silence, but I just wanted to say it saddens me when humanity is misclassified as inefficiency. The other day Sam Altman made a jest about how much energy is wasted by people saying "thanks" to chatgpt. The corollary is how much human energy is wasted on humans saying thanks to each other. When making a judgement about inefficiency one is making a judgement on what is valuable, a very biased judgement that isn't necessarily aligned with what makes us thrive. =) (<-- a wasteful smiley)

What makes it an "envolved" ecs?

I think it's a good point and I experienced the same thing when playing with SDL3 the other day. So even established languages with new API's can be problematic.

However, I had a different takeaway when playing with Rust+AI. Having a language that has strict compile-time checks gave me more confidence in the code the AI was producing.

I did see Cursor get in an infinite loop where it couldn't solve a borrow checker problem and it eventually asked me for help. I prefer that to burying a bug.

I tried that with work. I created an account where I can just follow a few things related to my job. The problem is that reddit will start showing you things you didn't subscribe to. It's a battle to keep them at bay. If you look at my work account feed it's all mycology, bad tattoos, what-is-this-thing. I never subscribed to any of them. Yea, they are interesting but that's not what I wanted or need at work.

You're right, but I don't think giving a dollar to gifted programs instead of intervention for struggling kids solves that problem. In fact if a kid is gifted but is struggling because of household issues, again, the money is better spent on struggling kids and they'll benefit from it.

There are a lot of reasons a kid may be struggling in school and it doesn't mean they are dumb or their future is worthless, as your hypothetical kids shows. I live in an area with one of the top public schools in America, they have a well funded gifted program. I know several parents whose dyslexic children are not getting the support they need.

I appreciate what you are trying say. I'm having a hard time believing it because I was one of those kids. The only thing my parents gave me was access to books, technology, love and free time. They possessed zero experience in engineering or technology, gave zero guidance. In fact they told me I was wasting my time being on the computer so much. I think people like to inject themselves as some sort of necessary mentor but gifted kids are gifted.

Or by disrupting the rest of the class.

Kids that are struggling in class can be just as disruptive.

Gifted kids in a single stream classroom need to learn to play dumb or become a social pariah.

Aka learn to function in society?

Here's my story from the other side. I have one gifted child and one child with dyslexia, but doesn't qualify for special education. My school district has a gifted program that is a whole separate school, but they have a handful of specialists to help kids struggling to read. They are shared across the grades and hard to get assigned. One of them has to actually be paid for by the PTSA since the district won't pay for it. That's messed up.

It's just the truth. Look at the boeing dreamliner failures. Hundreds of smart people doing a bang up job. It just took one a few missteps to jeopardize the whole production and peoples lives.

I don't believe it. Almost every kid in America has access to the internet, a public library and a teacher. How many don't have access to any of those? That's a different problem.

This is definitely not true for poorer gifted students:

I don't think that's as big of an issue because kids have access to teachers, libraries and the internet.

Gathering gifted kids together, instead of bunching them with lowest common denominators, can result in lifelong friendships.

Kid's together creates the opportunity for friendships. Focusing too much on academics at a young age will miss key milestones for social development. It's particularly acute for high functioning autistic kids.

She makes some good points, but my take is that we in the 21st century are more bound to the success of our weakest links. Our world has become so complicated, one small mistake can have dire consequences. So, it's the state's priority to spend its limited resources helping those struggling to tread water. Gifted children will get the stimulus they need at home via independent study or from their family. I know since I gave myself an almost complete college education in computer science before I graduated from high school. Splitting gifted kids apart can warp them socially for life too.

If anything, it appears that neural networks are far further along than any quantum mechanism for approximating whatever "consciousness" actually is? And neural networks are absolutely not quantum mechanical.

Neural networks are also way less power efficient. Quantum computing allows us to calculate things that would take a lot of power or time to calculate (not calculate things that are impossible). If one could create consciousness with classical physics it wouldn't prove anything about how the human brain works. In fact if it was wildly less power efficient it might even suggest non-classical physics in the brain.

happens more at runtime

Bingo, that's the difference. That's why I said "compile-time memory safety". This is what Rust gives you for your trouble, zero (runtime) cost for memory safety.

No, sorry, it's not https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.8.0/book/references-and-borrowin...

I'm glad you found something you like. I just want to make it clear that the things about Rust that make it "unfriendly" are also the things that make it able to do things other languages can't do, like compile-time memory safety. Depending on what you are making, that might make little difference. I just wanted to make sure you appreciated what Rust can do that other languages can't.

The order of execution of the recorded commands inside a command buffer is NOT guaranteed to complete in the order they were submitted: the GPU can reorder these commands in whatever order it thinks is best to complete the job as quickly as possible.

It's my understanding that commands inside of a command buffer are guaranteed to complete in order. The synchronization must happen when you are `vkQueueSubmit`ing multiple command buffers, no? I think that's what they meant to say?

Imagine being a researcher from the future and asking this same question of the AI. The safety concern would be totally irrelevant, but the norms of the time would be dictating access to knowledge. Now imagine a time in the not too distant future where the information of the age is captured by AI, not books or films or tape backups, no media that is accessible without an AI interpreter.

Fennel has a form `assert-repl` which will drop into the REPL wherever, if the condition fails. For writing games you can launch the REPL in the game loop if a keyboard button is pressed. But what you can't do, that I know of, is interrupt arbitrary execution and get a Fennel REPL. You'd probably need a lua debugger of some sort for that. I'm not that familiar with that though.

[Fennel] also lacks Common Lisp's debuggability, given that it sits entirely within Lua's runtime.

I'm not sure exactly what feature the OP was referring to. It sounds like they don't think you can get a REPL for an executing Fennel process? You can. If you are only using it for AOT Fennel->Lua you can't, you have to include its runtime.

It does have a screen for output. In they demo they showed it displaying a stock graph. As for input, I suspect elucidating your desires verbally is a muscle that is developed, like learning to program or be a writer. The assistants of yore are so error prone and slow people may not have got to that level, LLM might be the difference there.

It's not a complete waste, every engineer you employ is one you don't have to compete with, which matters for big tech companies. Also, employed engineers can be mobilized to react to threats/emergencies. It's just a matter of time before they will be needed. If you are running a ghost ship, will you be able to scale up a response when needed? If the company is just being fleeced, then the answer is "who cares?" I guess.

The comparison of the accomplishments of one entity versus the entirety of humanity is needlessly high. Imagine if we could duplicate everything humans could do but it required specialized AIs, (airplane pilot AI, software engineer AI, chemist AI, etc). That world would be radically different than the one we know and it doesn't reach your bar. So, in that sense it's a misplaced benchmark.

The metal shell is ridged though, so the volume maintains the same with the vacuum. A rubber duck collapses with a vacuum inside of it, thus losing the shape of a duck and reducing the volume of the object =). That's why I said it's just a piece of rubber with eyes.

A rubber duck with a vacuum inside (removing the air material) of it is just a piece of rubber with eyes. Assuming OP's point about the rubber not being less dense than water, it would sink, no?

Yea, of all the edits in the video, the editing for timing is the least of concern. My gripe is that the prompting was different and in order to get that information you have to watch the video only on YouTube, expand the description and click on a link to a different blog article. Linking a "making of" video where they show this and interview some of the minds behind Gemini would have been better PR.

That's a tricky one though since the question is, is the air inside of the rubber duck part of the material that makes it? If you removed the air it definitely wouldn't look the same or be considered a rubber duck. I gave it to the bot since when taking ALL the material that makes it a rubber duck, it is less dense than water.

That level of skepticism is the reality for any query to a human or a search engine. For example, maybe that first search result is correct, but for the wrong version of what you are looking for. Maybe your colleague didn't understand what you really wanted.

Where it is helpful is that it's way more convenient than asking a human, doing a web search, or looking it up in a book. Even if a followup question is required. In this particular case there is a lot of transferability between knowing programming languages, too, so one can filter most implausible answers even if they don't know the programming language they are asking about.

There is a huge difference between how the world works today and how it worked in the medieval era though. We are much more interconnected and co-dependent as evidenced by COVID-19. Maybe there are uncontacted people that could survive a major human pandemic? We also have worse weapons, can the people that survive a pandemic that kills 2/3 of humanity, like the plague, keep it together? There is already speculation that people like Putin were twisted further by the isolation of COVID-19.

WRT ecological collapse, aren't we experiencing the front end of a mass extinction in the oceans? Can humans survive such an event or will it be a domino effect up the food chain?

I don't usually like ruminating on this stuff but it's worth considering our future without AI if we are going to consider what it may be like with it.

It's already happened before on earth multiple times, it's not that hard to imagine.

Asteroid, super volcano, ecological collapse, nuclear war (with its knock on environmental effects), pandemic could all cause human extinction.

edit: Also, human extinction shouldn't be the bar. Prosperous humane existence for all, or hope of someday achieving that should be the bar.