Eclicity

@skdh @kareem_carr Whatever they claim about AI, it is void of human emotion. They can be trained on emotive situations but don't feel it, they just emulate it.

First, I think you're confusing self-awareness with consciousness. But the bigger issue I think is that neither consciousness nor self-awareness are binary. They're not either on or off. The digital map, I would say has an \epsilon of self-awareness. So I don't see any contradiction here.

When people say AI is "conscious" what they seem to mean is it's a mathematical model that has within it a representation of the model itself. By this definition, a digital map that contains an active tracker of the map itself is also conscious, which is kind of silly.

@unusual_whales PUTZ --> Pump Up The (Z)STOCK (okay, not my best work. 😀)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “The narratives of AI destroying jobs is not going to help America: it's false."

@Policyinsts @unusual_whales If I take your hypothetical on face value, wen? There will be mass layoffs before those new jobs become available. It may take 5, 10, 20 years. How do those laid off pay for food, shelter and clothing until then?

@unusual_whales Most of the jobs will be gone but many more will be created….so not false to some extent

@MatthewBerman Maybe donate some of that money to a food bank and stick with that old display?

thinking about getting the apple studio display 27", is it worth it? right now i have the lg 34" UltraWide 5K (about 7 years old, held up very well)

@WesRoth Ooh, ooh, when pets.ai and webvan.ai get billions of dollars of investor money. 😀

so when is this AI bubble gonna pop?

@WesRoth There's likely a "little hiss" of a leak before the big pop.

@MatthewBerman I really don't know how anyone can burn through a $200 Claude Code account. I've wrote 400,000 LOC on $100 plan in the past 5 months and have never had to wait for my next 5 hr window. Yes, it would get dumb and lazy sometimes but usually clears up in a few hours, not nice.

reluctantly paid

@ronmortgageguy @skov555 Oooh, my ears are burning!

@skov555 Okay MotherFucker Sergei 367 King West It's being ADVERTISED Look it up & Fuck Yourself!

Wow Price Discovery Mayhem In 416 Condo World Price Discovery means when something stops selling at the previous price levels it's time to find out how much lower it needs to go to finally sell And GOD DAMN we have some wild Price Discovery in 416 Condos today Huge Discounts

@ManyBeenRinsed @407ETR I guess the 407 is for the rich, eh?

Taking highway 407 is literal highway robbery. Speechless. @407ETR

@adonis_singh Damn it. Look at me. Look at me. I'm so great. Look at me. Such desperation. Seems like you're trying to convince Codex users from leaving.

consensus is pretty clear; codex is killing cc right now it will take a while for the normies to catch up, most still think claude is some unbeatable God that is stomping gpt in 'technical stuff'

@BillInDallas @KRoelandschap @teslaeurope @Tesla @robotinreallife @robotaxi Bummer. You may be right. I was starting to believe FSD had x-ray eyes! 🩻

@KRoelandschap @teslaeurope @Tesla @robotinreallife @robotaxi It may have been the bike coming from the left, barely on edge of screen.

Tesla FSD brakes for an invisible van 👀 Just two guys casually talking while being driven around by FSD.. we thought: HUH?! Why would it stop, ah ofcourse FSD already saw what two Human Pilots failed to recognize. A wild invisible van appeared FSD didn’t even blink & said: hold my beer @robotinreallife

@atmoio I've been enjoying agentic coding since Magical December. I am able to build enterprise-level systems from scratch all by myself, learning new technologies and techniques, fully documented, extensive test cases, and easier to deploy and manage. No going back.

what’s interesting is that as coding becomes less enjoyable, less people will be doing it. this used to be a highly rewarding, highly stimulating field. now it’s laboring at the slop factory. if you manage to hold on to your dignity your job is probably safe, even lucrative.

@Rainmaker1973 If we are living in a simulation -- That's a lot of AI Slop! What? It's a joke, it's a joke. :)

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

@jayvanbavel Existential Risk IS EVERYTHING on this list.

What is the one thing that most worries you about AI? In a survey of 3,700 AI researchers, only 3% of respondents replied existential risk — despite “the prominence given to these risks in media. Far more researchers are worried aout malicious use, misinformation, job losses, bias, etc. nature.com/articles/d4158…

@GaryMarcus One point of clarification, I selected vibe coding but for me it's agentic software engineering. I've used Claude Code to write over 400,000 lines of code in the past 5 months. I didn't write a single line of code in that time.

Coders and software engineers ONLY:

@altcap When I myself can deliver a software system in three months with Claude Code, I've displaced 12 to 16 software developers who would have taken 2 years to build. There will be layoffs and gradually less and less hiring.

There is zero historical evidence or evidence in the prediction markets of this fear mongering forecast. We are at 4.2% today - a historical low! Of course jobs will be lost & jobs created bc of AI - progress can be hard - but productive debate starts with honest forecasts. 📈

This is just garbage analysis & extremism. Not helpful. You can do better & the world would benefit if u found an honest way to contribute to the AI conversation. 🤖📈🇺🇸

@WR4NYGov @_ZachFoster @theallinpod @chamath @Jason @DavidSacks @friedberg Where's are the convictions of team Biden, especially claiming that they are worse and the Trump family? My head is spinning?

@_ZachFoster @theallinpod @chamath @Jason @DavidSacks @friedberg “the most corrupt president in US American history by an order of magnitude” They don’t believe that. Many of us agree. Trump ain’t perfect. His pardons have been disturbing. He’s not close to the corruption of team Biden.

The @theallinpod is the most influential podcast in the tech world. They are obsessed with talking about government grift & corruption. Utterly obsessed. All 4 of them: @chamath, @jason, @davidsacks & @friedberg Their blood boils talking about how California state employees abuse the state pension system. Hardly a show goes by without a rant on how corrupt California's and San Francisco's governments are. Yet they worship at the feet of the most corrupt president in US American history by an order of magnitude. Yet they are true Trump sycophants. How do they manage the cognitive dissonance?

@APompliano Yes, right now there may be more hiring in anticipation of demand of AI-based services but when they oversaturate (likely in a couple of years) and the AI digital workers have been nearly perfected, the flood of layoffs will happen.

I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many entry level roles typically filled by young employees. The technology would then work its way up the organization and eventually reduce the total number of jobs in a company. The data is saying something different, so when I get new information I am willing to change my mind. The number of software engineers being hired has been increasing. The number of open software engineer roles is growing. The number of new college grads who get hired has increased 5.6% over the last 12 months. The unemployment level for people aged 20-24 years old who have a college degree has fallen from nearly 9% to almost 5% as well. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote “AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as Head of AI and AI engineer.” And I am starting to see companies throughout our portfolio aggressively hiring to keep up with the demand for their products and services. If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind. AI appears to be a magical technology that will make companies more productive and more profitable. The net result will be more corporations, more startups, and more jobs. All three are big, positive wins for the American economy.

@billmaher The poor and middle class would pay more taxes if employers paid a living wage while making full time employment into gig jobs.

Somehow, the ultra-rich keep getting ultra-richer, while a growing percentage of people feel truly desperate.

@trajan_blind @MeidasTouch What tax base? Don't they give the AI data centers a free tax haven for like a decade or two?

@MeidasTouch A moratorium is too blunt. States that overreact to AI infrastructure may discover that the jobs and tax base went elsewhere while the energy strain debate remained unresolved.

NEWS: Janet Mills has VETOED a first-in-the-nation bill that would have paused large data center projects, blocking Maine from becoming the first state to enact a statewide moratorium on AI infrastructure.