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New comment by ryeights in ""An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]"

ryeights — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:28:05 +0000

OP already answered why this time is different. Previous technology has never reduced the scarcity of general intelligence, which has been the exclusive domain of humans.

New comment by ryeights in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

ryeights — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:16:31 +0000

Superintelligent AI is more dangerous than a bioweapon. How, then, is this guardrail not addressing the most pertinent safety concern of all?

New comment by ryeights in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

ryeights — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:30:25 +0000

This reads like satire from a Slate commentary piece on Citizens United. I suppose we’re just waiting around until the majority of corporations in the US are formed and operated by AI agents. And then…

New comment by ryeights in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

ryeights — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:04:21 +0000

Not necessarily contradictory. If all your peers are using AI, you might feel you have to use it too to avoid falling behind… especially with curved grade thresholds

New comment by ryeights in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

ryeights — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:14:10 +0000

I think you need a stronger analogy than "they both take questions and produce answers," especially since search engines don't answer questions.

New comment by ryeights in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

ryeights — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:35:02 +0000

In what sense is an LLM analogous (much less reducible to) a search engine?

New comment by ryeights in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

ryeights — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:45:11 +0000

I’m trying to discuss a scenario where the labor class becomes extraneous/unnecessary to the elite class, not an AI takeover.

New comment by ryeights in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

ryeights — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:03:38 +0000

You saw something kinda analogous in a movie once, therefore it's impossible? Am I the one basing my views off of science fiction?

New comment by ryeights in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

ryeights — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:55:50 +0000

The antidote to AI psychosis is not denial. We owe it to ourselves to be humble and consider the possibility that LLM technology leads to general intelligence. The capabilities of coding agents today are certainly outside my wildest imagination circa GPT-3 launch in 2020.

New comment by ryeights in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

ryeights — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:39:59 +0000

The cynical conclusion of AGI is that most humans will be enslaved or disposed of. We won't be forced to continue working for pay despite being slower, less intelligent, and more expensive than machines.

New comment by ryeights in "Native all the way, until you need text"

ryeights — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:12:59 +0000

So I can build my entire app in a WebKit wrapper and call it native? I think ‘native’ in this context is well-understood to mean eschewing web or cross-platform renderers

New comment by ryeights in "Native all the way, until you need text"

ryeights — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:08:44 +0000

Electron sits on native rendering primitives. Do you suggest that every developer who wants rich interactive text in their app should write a text rendering engine from the ground up?

New comment by ryeights in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

ryeights — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:25:37 +0000

So you’re trying to tell me that NOx and diesel particulates are not harmful to human health?

New comment by ryeights in "The sigmoids won't save you"

ryeights — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:10:02 +0000

“AI is whatever hasn't been done yet” — Larry Tesler

New comment by ryeights in "The sigmoids won't save you"

ryeights — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:27:32 +0000

>1. Scott Alexander is famous for writing about topics he knows little about. I'm glad to see he's found a subject he knows little about but so does everyone else.

This is kinda laughable. Scott has been thinking and writing about AI for a long time

New comment by ryeights in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

ryeights — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:28 +0000

I understand and I don't care. Your personal interests as a diesel truck driver don't override others' interests in health and clean air

New comment by ryeights in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

ryeights — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:46:29 +0000

So what? It's anti-social behavior. What thought does the deleted diesel truck driver give to his fellow citizens, whose otherwise reliable respiratory systems are weakened and made more susceptible to failure by toxic fumes and particulates?

New comment by ryeights in "AI is making me dumb"

ryeights — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:00:08 +0000

Reads like great satire to me.

New comment by ryeights in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

ryeights — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:30:31 +0000

My premise is that a vibe-coded app will be indistinguishable from a ‘hand-crafted’ one. So in that scenario the chemist wins, because the developer has no value to add.

It is clear to me that SWE and ML research will be subsumed before other domains because labs are focusing their efforts there, in their quest to build self-improving systems.

New comment by ryeights in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

ryeights — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:31:37 +0000

s/software engineer/secretary/

s/creating software/typing correspondence/

In a world where software programming/architecting is solved by AI, value will accrue to people with expertise in other domains (who have now been granted the power of 1000 expert developers), not the people whose skillsets have been made redundant by better, faster and cheaper AI tools.