A more succinct title would be Author uses LLMs to do TDD (test driven development)

IDK about “white knight”; I first heard the phrase “dangerous by default” from a black man recounting how he got nervous being on an elevator with a white woman.

“Dangerous by default” is one hell of a thing to internalize 😞

Newsom is pitching Generative AI to make government more “efficient” : https://abc7.com/post/gavin-newsom-announces-ai-driven-efforts-help-california-reduce-traffic-jams-improve-road-safety/16279785/

noticeable subjective probability

I know what these words mean individually, but arranged like this two of the three words lose their meaning.

Plan for the extinction of capitalism: you’re a terrorist

Plan for the extinction of humanity: you’re a prophet

I am sensing a new standup comedy routine where a tablet pretending to be AI has a script to say some of the worse takes while claiming to be different people at different points. And the host dissects the responses with observational humor

Back in college yes, but nearly 20 years later my friends have changed or I have changed friends. I think there was a lot of “just trying to be funny” and fortunately most of my friends learned better jokes.

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.

• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

But please continue to justify your counter-revolutionary actions by dressing yourself in revolutionary aesthetics.

I don’t have to imagine when you’re providing the example. Are you CIA or a Trotskyist without a group? I really am impressed.

If you really thought this you wouldn’t wait. You would ambush them so that you can take more out. Y’all are just larping.

You know what’s crazy? I volunteered for the 50501 protest and the Brown Berets showed up to protect those liberals you despise so much. Those Marxists are busy practicing solidarity in the streets while you are here shitting on them.

I lived through those times, this is different. The punishment for false hope is the lesson that things can always get worse.

We’re cooked because our leaders are pumping the AI bubble while crashing the rest of the economy. When that bubble pops those programmers are going to have to find a job in a nuclear sized crater of where the economy used to be.

It’s easier if you’re not ideologically consistent, maybe we sell their labor to North Korea for some peace. But if there were ideological consistency, it would be to trade these poor souls on the block chain.

It’s not even a question when we’re literally fighting for due process.

We gotta be more China than China because China

When asked why such basic tasks are impractical they will say “just look at how incompetent we are!”

Well now I feel like an asshole for telling my wife it wasn’t her fault for being let go.

Kind of feels like all three branches have done that. Congress isn’t holding the executive or the courts to account, the court is splitting the power transfer with the executive branch to avoid being made outright irrelevant, and the executive branch is acting like a monarchy.