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We have designed society to produce people neurotically obsessed with ranking and comparison in school, work, and social media

Comparing ourselves to others is probably built into our DNA. Most primates also have a social hierarchy. A human who didn't somewhat obsessively socially compare himself to others and/or self reflect on his behavior might have been thrown out of the tribe because he would never self correct.

Ah Israel. Yes Israel is the reason. THey're responsible for tens of millions of people coming from Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia etc etc.

At Burger King?

They're getting paid?

why would the world keep you alive?

I don't buy this. Tons of people in the West live on welfare and don't contribute shit to the economy, they are net takers. No one is plotting to kill them, in fact they're (arguably) getting more than they did 50 years ago and definitely more a 100 years ago. We live in democracies, not in a dystopian nightmare and I don't see why A.I is going to change that dynamic. People vote, people control the government, the government controls the armed forces, private citizens are not allowed to gather unregulated weapons... billionaire or no billionaire I don't see how you can beat that. And also, it's not like the billionaire class is some kind of a cohesive group that wants to work together to rule the world - they pretty much compete with and hate each other. I don't think Musk, Altman, Hassabis and Larry and Sergey are all going to agree to work together on "controling the machines" and killing all the other people.

but most illegals to US are not skilled, but they're tolerated as long as they don't break any major laws

Define tolerated. It's quite a divisive issue in the U.S and I'd say there's a majority who doesn't want open borders or a policy that de facto lets anyone who entered the U.S stay regardless of their legality.

Just think of how often some "new and improved version" drops some important feature you used without providing a good replacement? We'll get more of that. If the codebase is unmaintainable, they'll just regenerate a new pile of garbage that will change stuff randomly and call it an improvement.

Most production systems dont have such a high tolerance for embarrassing bugs. Startups can completely fail if they have too low quality. Established businesses can lose to competition if orders don't arrive, compliance has bugs etc etc. So quality has to be good enough, that's a constraint that wont go away.

My honest take is forget that burning interest in programming, it likely won't matter that much in a few years. There may be a need for technically strong people who understand whatever the domain the company works on well I say focus on that. Knowing all kinds of deep python/c++ trivia is a decaying skill imo.

Good for the guy. Whatever he was doing before - it was probably too much, too soon or with the wrong people (e.g - arguing with a senior architect who's been in the company for a decade is not the same as with a junior colleague).

It hurts more than it helps

Hurts who ? Yes the doctor is super stressed and has maybe 10 minutes for you that's the actual problem, it's not like before LLMs they were super glad to sit there and answer all your questions.

fucking hell. dont they have language tests for foreign nurses? how the hell did she pass it ?

But AI's problem is that its completely full of shit, sometimes

It's now quite unusual that it's "Completely full of shit". If it contradicts something your doctor said I don't see why you should feel ashamed to bring it up. Sure it complicates the doctor's work, having ignorant obedient patients must be more comfortable for the doctor, but the end result could be more accurate diagnosis.

It was already difficult to deal with self diagnosis for doctors

I get it. But the current system is also super difficult for the patient: getting time to ask questions, get clear answers, get the best possible diagnosis taking into account your history, symptoms etc and all that in 5-10 minute checkup when your doctor sees 50 patients a day and has very little time for you; this doesn't scale well. Patients run to A.I for a reason.

it's better information, and AI cannot currently provide that

It sometimes can, if it straight out never can no one would use it. People use it , lots of them.

The A.I is only gonna get better , and fast. Doctors should simply double check themselves by using A.I.

Nightmare because they're always right and the A.I second guessing is always wrong, or because they just don't like to be second guessed?

This is a fantastic outcome - lots of money and U.S citizenship! And your product didn't even hurt anyone unlike working for Meta, in fact no one even used it!

Well Italy for example is a founding member and joined in 1958. So not including it makes as much sense as not including Germany.

Yeah 10PM is still really bad, the house becomes a freaking oven

It might make life more comfortable during some days of heatwaves but it's definitely not a need to survive.

Well I don't know , I lived 4 years in the Netherlands in one of those apartments that have huge windows on every room. During the summer some days got closed to 37-38c and the sun sets at what , 11PM ? I was pretty scared our newborn might die - I put a fan right on her of course but I'm not sure this setup is OK at all.

Yeah that used to be true 40 years ago maybe

Why did he reduce Europe to north Europe in the beginning of the article? The EU is not just North Europe. It sounds to me a bit like cherry picking to make his case.

yeah its not a good piece of information but you do you

I think a lot of founding is pretty much a commodity, e.g coming up with a viable idea and then implementing it has become rather easy now with these tools. The real barriers are access to capital and clients. From the startup I joined (I'm the 6th person) I see how much the founders personal connections are important. That indeed can't be commoditized yet. But the process of coming up with an idea and iterating on it ? The founders didn't even come up with our idea - they thought of something initially but the investor led them to his own idea - totally different. That's how the company was born. Now the first clients are connected to the investors. Etc.

So access to capital and clients, connections ,that's the last standing moat I think.

I think being good with the terminal is a signal that the person is willing to 'dig in' and understand stuff at a lower level.

You know what else is a good sign of them willing to dig in and understand stuff at a lower level ? If they dig in and understan stuff at a lower level. Let's judge people on what matters - the actual work and value they bring. Not status symbols like their IDE of choice or how fast they type into the keyboard.

Yeah I agree. We're headed into a rougher job market pretty much across the board for white collar work , hitting junior people worse at this stage. Up to societies around the world to decide how to deal with this - so far we deal with it by ignoring it it seems.

this is the first model that feels like its coming for my job

Damn you must be good, I've been feeling this for around 2 years now

I kinda agree I mean almost no one writes code by hand anymore but it doesn't mean we don't contribute any value anymore. I wouldn't exchange the entire r&d department with Claude yet - would you ?

It's possible , yes. For now I'm betting against it, we'll see.

I agree but I think it would take awhile. Some of us here seem to believe 2026-2027 is the end of programming jobs. At least that's Amodei seemed to be saying but then changed his mind later on?