I don’t disagree, but my point is.

It’s a category error, LLMs are text prediction engines. There is nothing behind the curtain, they can’t by evil, because that implies understanding and intent.

LLMs are evil in the way that earthquakes are evil, it is pure anthropomorphism, and it’s taking the focus from were the real issues are.

Don’t get sucked into blaming the hammer, when the one swinging it it right there.

I can’t agree, the LLM’s don’t have the capacity to be evil. They may be called AI but there is no “I” anywhere in there.

The companies however…well that is a different story.

Kinda.

Not from USA; but…Terry Crews would be a great leader; he is way to nice to actually run though.

The children yearn for the mines looms

Market research?

I get that, why import stuff that you produce locally…

I try to never get imported food products that we make here… It just seems wasteful.

Happy to help

I had a less experienced person with me looking at some code.

I pointed out that a particular section of code is shit; just bad form, hard to debug and generally unpleasant to work with. I noted that the person that wrote this didn’t really know what they were doing, sure the code works and has been working for a long time, but this is not how we would do things.

They asked “wow, who wrote this?” I replied “it was me 13 years ago”; it is a great ice breaker, in a non-critical part of the system, new people realize we all have to start somewhere.

It also allows me to go over the standards we use, why we use them and how to simplify debugging.

I doubt it, I think the Miraka plant is produces mostly primary products not the secondary stuff.

Pretty sure I know the factory that this butter comes from. The Miraka plant; north of Taupō. Geothermally powered, restricts it to a relatively small region in NZ.

The induced demand theory of coffee cup size.

Get a BIGGER cup.

Got very excited

Nothing about gender wars here.

Just because Facebook is shit, doesn’t make this any better.

Agreed, but it is worse the way I put it…

Change the target to any other group and the outrage would be 100-10000 fold bigger.

Try it out, instead of Women rating men, try subbing in various minority groups or races.

Bonus points for the most offensive combinations…

e.g. Russians rating Ukrainians in your area…it can get pretty bad…I can think of many worse combos.

I expect operators to be “walking around with tools”…

I had an engineering grad…who didn’t know how to use excel/LO calc. Like WTF, this is a crazy useful tool; spreadsheets should be normal to use in an engineering degree.

I work in industrial automation.

Maybe NZ is different to which ever country you are in. But every plant I have worked in/on; the operators are expected to both know how the machine works, how to diagnose why it stopped and advise the maintenance team about what was happening when it stopped.

Some are better than others…but most operators know their machines very well. A good operator can cut downtime in half.

A lot of machines require adjustments when changing products, this is an operational change. Some adjustments require tools, operators will need to know what tools are/how to use them etc…

I would be worried if I saw an operator walking around with an angle grinder, but hand tools are normal around here.