It goes back before Donald was in charge of the Trump real estate business. It started with a really really shitty father who desired a “killer” business instinct in his children (read: cruelty) above all else.

Reading some of Mary Trump’s books will give some insight on the family that Donald grew up in. No love, all cruelty.

Donald is just a rich kid who inherited a big business and learned nothing but cruelty from his daddy.

I disagree, he’s more than that. Lots of people having shitty abusive parents, even lots of wealthy people. There’s something wrong with his brain.

It might be childish, but I think the “act like an adult” (or not) is a good way to frame the bad behavior that’s been so present lately.

It encapsulates so much of how I want to describe things.

Selfish behavior - this adult is just a child who didn’t learn to share.

Mean and vindictive behavior - didn’t learn to empathize as a kid

Lying? You’re still a child. Grow up and then join the adults.

Very apt for the current moment.

Adults push back on aggressors when necessary. Children cower behind the adults.

I came here to say something similar. Ever since I found out about alt + left click drag anywhere in window to move, and alt + right click drag practically anywhere on any side to resize, anything else feels user-hostile.

I rarely use windows anymore, but just like you installed a tool to get this behavior.

This UI feature saves approx 3 seconds on average for resizing windows. Plus, more importantly it more predictably works, and is an easier target to hit than a 2-10 wide pixel line or square region.

It’s an easy deflection. Dismiss any opinions because you’re using it wrong or not the latest.

Good for anything >= 1 month old.

Use other nonsense fear inducing argument in the mean time, continue gathering gobs of VC money, get your bag, continue till the bubble pops.

In all fairness, and putting hype and anti-hype aside, I’m really interested to see the actual value of LLM/agent services after the VC money subsidies dry out. Would people we willing to pay for services at 10x the current price?

I have hope that the newer generations don’t align with “big bad guvmit”, and there’s been enough negative experiences (direct and indirect) with healthcare that people will vote for alternatives.

Also, I am saddened by the shared anxiety of healthcare in US (availability while jobless, f*** by big bills, lack of care, etc). The raw amount of shared mental stress must contribute to lower lifespans :(

A lot of people who got the bad side of healthcare system are not there to tell the story. Or they wont have capacity or money to have kids, etc.

Also poor people who having serious health problems dont have time to be politically active.

My impression on the newer generation is either socialist or republican with little in between.

Cell phones are fine. It’s their locked-down non-open nature and Apple, Google, Samsung that make cell phones not general computing devices.

I really hope we can convince enough people to care about general computing.

We all have skin in the game when how it’s sold is “automated intelligence so that we can fire all our knowledge workers”

Might be good in some timelines. In our current timeline this will just mean even more extreme concentration of wealth, and worse quality of life for everyone.

Maybe when the world has a lot more safety nets so that not having a job doesn’t mean homelessness, starvation, no healthcare, then society will be more receptive to the “this tool can replace everybody” message.

If a machine can do your job; whether it's harvesting corn or filing a TPS report then making a person sit and do it for the purpose of survival is basically just torture.

There are so many better things for humans to do.

I agree in theory. In practice people who are automated out of jobs are not taken care of by society in the transition period where they learn how to do a new job.

Once having a job is not intimately tied to basic survival needs then people will be much more willing to automate everything.

I, personally, would be willing to do mind numbing paperwork or hard labor if it meant I could feed myself and my family, have housing, rather than be homeless and starving.

You might as well stop being a software developer. Not because you'll be out of job, but because you're directly contributing to other people being out of jobs. We've been automating work (which is ultimately human labor) since the dawn of computers. And humans have been automating work for centuries now. We actually call that progress. So lets stop progressing entirely so people can do pointless labor.

If the problem is with society the solution is with society. We have stop pretending that it's anything else. AI is not even the biggest technological leap -- it's blip on the continuum.

>There are so many better things for humans to do.

For the time being, at least.

There will always be better things for people to do. We don't exist on this planet just to sit at a desk and hit buttons all day.

The only reason we exist is as a carrier for our genes to make more of our genes. Everything after that is an accidental byproduct.

I can already think of something more useful to pass on my genes than typing on keyboard all day.

Murder is still murder. Whether it’s done in person or through a screen.

IANAL.. I know current US computer crime laws are extremely broad and ill-defined. Curious to hear opinion from someone who actually knows some law.

You’d be surprised in the variety in how people eat food.

I know some people that roll a pizza slice (from crust to center) to eat it. Blasphemous, and inspiring.