I always wondered if they'd be of any use as multimedia server, with local content deliver and an USB device hanging out of it, for unused libraries...

> "AI isn't doing things, people and corporations are..."

Where have I heard a similar reasoning? Maybe about guns in the US???

Guns can and are used to murder people directly in the physical world.

The overwhelming (perhaps complete) use of generative AI is not to murder people. It's to generate text/photo/video/audio.

Generative AI is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "ai psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death.

Internet is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "internet psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death.

I was too young, too naive, and/or too ignorant to know the Internet would do those things. I would argue a majority of us were.

AI is _very_ clearly going to lead to a lot of negative outcomes, and I am no longer too young, naive, and ignorant about it.

"X thing was bad and has remained unsolved. Exponentially making X worse is therefore okay, as long as it helps me open 20 PRs per day."

Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "internet psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death...

Interesting. For me running it in multiple online compilers gets consistently the following output:

1 1= 1 2 2= 4 3 3= 9 4 4= 16 5 5= 25 6 6= 36 7 7= 49 8 8= 64 9 9= 81 10 10= 100

I ran it here using my phone:

https://www.jdoodle.com/c-online-compiler

I copied and pasted the code from GitHub (click copy, rather than highlighting and copying).

It ran but also outputted the number sequence a few times.

It is possible when you did copy n paste the special characters were lost.

The road to automation is always full of outages.

Pinker's tweet is how I actually ended up reading the article, then searching on HN for a possible related post. I read Sacks' major books, and I was always surprised by what I thought being his talent to romanticize real life. I guess it was too good to be (completely) true, after all :(

This will work perfectly with the approach used by candidates: https://www.interviewquery.com/p/tech-workers-gaming-ai-hiri...

Why in the world would any sane person utilize such an app, knowing what kind of people will be "at the other end" of communication, and what topics would be discussed, even if the most secure piece of software ever developed?

The president of the USA is on the equivalent alternative to Twitter.

Source: Montpellier company: https://www.illogicstudios.com/

Interesting, especially as the city is also host to some of the best gaming developers.

Every time I read something like this reminds me of Maturana (of autopoiesis fame), who was among the first scientists from where I started gaining an interest in these areas. Relevant to his view, in the area of language, is the following:

"We human beings are living systems that exist in language. This means that although we exist as human beings in language and although our cognitive domains (domains of adequate actions) as such take place in the domain of languaging, our languaging takes place through our operation as living systems. Accordingly, in what follows I shall consider what takes place in language[,] as language arises as a biological phenomenon from the operation of living systems in recurrent interactions with conservation of organization and adaptation through their co-ontogenic structural drift, and thus show language as a consequence of the same mechanism that explains the phenomena of cognition:"

Wouldn't an HN account need to be mentioned, once this platform is made visible enough, so that the bozos in charge, in the US, take it seriously? A social media ICE would love to dig into such.

I don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.

For what it's worth, HN is on ICE's list of surveilled sites (which it pays a tech contractor to crawl),

https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... ("The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring")

https://archive.is/Lldzh

Here's the actual list from the article for anyone like me (404media has paywall and archive.is doesn't work from Baltics):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...

I'd bet the actual list of surveilled sites is far longer, and actually kept secret.

Why not? Anything where user interaction is a primary portion of the site's content is social media. The term "social media" predates algorithmically-driven parasocial feeds, though it does postdate things like BBSes and PHPBB.

If you have advocated for Linux you must be a communist....