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If this was a case of the LLM being used to write unit tests, or document code, or even being used to do more complicated verification or refactoring I'm reasonably sure people would gripe a bit but just resign themselves to moving on. If that were the case then absolutely this would be LLM as tooling, and the developer would state that in a heartbeat, I'm sure eventually this would lead to greater usage of these tools.

Instead what we have is LLM contributed code, with all the baggage that entails and then an over the top response.

In my, admittedly amatuer, assessment: Eventually an open source project is going to be shutdown over use of copyrighted code. It would be nice if that happening is a tragic dy for that one project, not a chain reaction that breaks a sizable portion of the open source catalogue.

Plus as a sidenote, we can see that using LLMs actively degenerates the cognitive capabilities of the user. I would love to hold on to my belief that the developers who make the software I enjoy are better than me.

Considering the surveillance state our major political parties seem hell bent on establishing you know the government would just mandate a black box be installed next to every fuel tank that uploaded your road usage to Palantir so they could calculate your road usage taxes. Right?

I would imagine that given your username you wouldn't be in too big a rush to give the government a mandate to invade even more deeply into our affairs.

With regards to "doing" renewables... Yes, we should!

Let's face it, the 2 camps right now are:

• Burn things we dug out of the ground, spent a bunch of time and energy refining then shipped to a more proximate location.
• Steal power from the big ball of fusion fire in the sky, steal power from the big fuck off mass of air our planet is wrapped in, steal power from all that water sloshing around the dry bits of the planet, or occasionally lets dig a deep (but really narrow) hole and steal the power from the ground.

Eventually even the most rusted on climate change deniers are going to have to admit that, in this case, theft make a lot of sense.

Especially once we start seeing $4+ a litre thanks to an unconvicted pedophile in another country trying to act like a big man and picking fights he doesn't understand.

See the problem I have with this take is that almost everyone I know understands that they have to work in order to maintain a standard of living. Some of them are also conciously aware that this contributes to an overarching societal progression. The contribution our politicians should be making is to enact the will of the people they represent, this is where I see the breakdown occuring. We have a federal government that is apparently far more beholden to lobbyists and corporate interests, we have state governments who are similar, we have local councils that seemingly represent their own interests. Without people willing to put themselves on the line to highlight the failings of our governments and the supporting apparatus then when do we expect them to change? I'm sorry but no amount of contributing to the smooth operation of society is going to fix the problems we currently have, or the ones that are looming in front of us. Once we regulate AI, tighten our tax code to make businesses and corporations pay their fair share, inhibit the influence of lobbyists, get serious on finding and punishing corruption then we can talk about if protesters should be doing something more "productive". But if you think some older people marching against over reaching anti-public laws has more of a damaging effect on our society than all the problems we face I'm afraid you and I just exist in different worlds. A strong society should never fear its members protesting, we need to stop licking the boot and start standing up to the people wearing it.

Pfft after all the AUKUS nonsense, you think we are backing down from the brink of jumping in the crazy bus with the US? That's optimistic of you. We are going to ride this bomb all the way into the ground.

I haven't even heard the usual suspects bleating about how many Australians will be losing their homes when interest rates spike because evangelicals in the US can't get it up unless they are killing Arabs.

Oh I'm sure certain elements will run, for a certain value of run.

Now show some intestinal fortitude and do the same for alcohol advertising and gambling advertising. As a matter of fact apply strong ID checks & spending precommitments should keep the kids safe from gambling, their own and that of people around them.

This fiddling around the margins is performative theatre to distract the masses while they build the powers of the surveillance state.

Hey let's give this some runway, if they want it to be a success maybe they will consider ditching Windows and putting a variant of Linux on it. Imagine how much positivity the community would extend to them if they made it run mainline Bazzite, then they could throw a bunch of financial support at the Bazzite team...

Ahh who am I kidding, they will be loading it up with special Windows Gamer OS that is stripped of all ads and telemetry until the day after launch to give the reviewers with early access time to rave about how amazing it is that Microslop cares about their fans, before treating them like the little pay piggies they see them as.

Is this paving the way for them to start selling War bonds? As I understand it they are running out of ammunition already so they might need to consider some WW2 inspired manufacturing push as well.

Oh well maybe we should shove them in front of a screen and have them use AI until the scores improve. /s

Seriously when they do the analysis in 100 years we are going to cop so much negativity about our misguided attempts to make education a success by making it more profitable for the corporations that are forever sinking their claws deeper and deeper into our childrens future.

We know that LLMs have a negative impact on learning, mental health and the environment but we keep getting presented the Emperors wrinkled backside and then being told to marvel at it.

Anyway I tend to go on rants if I don't reign myself in, so I'm going to stop there.

Parent by choice not by accident so its incumbent on me to do my best, although I would never claim to be perfect, or even close.

Right from the start I will state I know the plural of anecdote isn't evidence. But I have a friend who has given up teaching year 11/12 athletic development and now teaches grade 7 pe. Primary reason is the mysoginistic shit she had to put up with from the boys who felt their gender made them better at anything sports related than her. She would compete in triathlon in her spare time with all the training & commitment that entails, and yet the podgy, vaping 18yo man children would tell jokes with each other about how she should go back to the kitchen "where she belongs".

When we were discussing this amongst a group that included 3 other female teachers every one of them agreed they are seeing more of that sort of crap every year. My guess would be all the Manosphere brainrot is having an effect. Couple that with kids around that age feeling the urge to be as edgy as possible...

I have noticed once or twice that my sons have started talking that way due to a combination of online and peer influence and I have stepped in to disabuse them of the notion that their chromosomes make them special or superior. But it's the world they live in and I pity the kids without a parent who is keeping any eye on them.

He was aware of the use case. He was told in no uncertain terms what it would be used for and made suggestions around how to conceal the devices. I think we all know that there are certain people who will get so caught up working the problem that they often don't think about consequences til much later.