He should ask AI what to do.

without any explanations about the world or comforts to be held

Says who? There are plenty of explanations. Gravity. Chemistry. Biology. Physics. There are tons of explanations of things.

Being told that there is nothing after death or that no one really knows, would have send me spiraling.

I don’t find the prospect of an afterlife comforting. We are supposed to end. That's what gives our brief time scope and meaning. I'm 51. Already I can only remember highlights of my childhood. What would even exist of me after 300 years? 1000? 1 million? I only have a short time to leave this world a better place than I found, which makes that time and those efforts precious. If I lasted a billion years why bother? None of any of this matters in the context of infinite time.

i cant imagine there being no resentment or conflicted feeling

Why? I mean I might feel like I'd let my kids down if they needed a religion, but I wouldn't resent it. I don't own them. They have and will make choices I don't agree with. That's why I wanted children. They are my continuation after death. The lessons I teach them about life and how to approach it and how to be good people are the thing that will outlive me. And through their relationships my influence on this world endures long after my name is forgotten. But they will be their own people and I wouldn't want it any other way.

I saw a job app the other day. Caught my eye because it's offering 1.5-2x what I'm making today. They have a big disclaimer that they use AI to help vet resumes. I'm not applying because I'm happy where I am (and because an undisclosed portion of that pay is performance based), but if I did, I guarantee I'm sending AI slop that knows how to sound like what AI wants to hear.

I have been on both sides of hiring. It's awful for everyone. It's like speed dating because you need a partner in two weeks. AI is bullshit. HR is bullshit. Leetcode is bullshit. To a point, even a degree is bullshit — almost all of my coworkers have at least a bachelor's degree but I'll bet none of them know I do not — one of the guys who works for me just got his Master's. The only good test is to sit down with someone and see if they have what you're looking for.

Every time I've gotten to do that, I've been hired. But I've gone months unemployed because getting that shot can be so difficult — the one place my lack of degree holds me back.

Anyway it's like Star Wars said — when bullshit rises, more bullshit rises to meet it.

The people you listed were already doing this. The problem is Darrell, the guy who thinks Earth is flat, can also do this.

It's hard not to be angry at said "friend" on your behalf. And your partner. I understand what you're going through. Good luck.

Dude should've been putting out remixes of books and lyrics.

I feel like that is a sort of protection that should never, ever be granted under any circumstances. Like you'd better feel comfortable going in front of a judge and explaining how you made every reasonable effort to protect children or you need to stay the fuck away from children.

For someone who so loves to hear his own voice and be on TV, it is nigh inevitable he will shit himself and keel over on TV in the middle of some word soup.

Is he suggesting that playing in the streets was something he used to do before the advent of cars? Like there were all that roads everywhere with kids just playing on them willy nilly, until one day Henry Ford met General Motor and said, "You know what we oughta do with all these fuckin' roads?" And ever since then, kids haven't been able to play on them any more?

Is that the version of history we're pedaling here?

The douchebag that married my half-sister when she was 15–16* and he was 21–22* was from Ohio, so I'll just register my lack of surprise.

*Ages approximate because I've never been close to that side of my blood.

“Anthropic has not done a great job at trying to speak to the administration and appreciate the ideological differences,” one source familiar with the administration’s thinking said.

“It’s like they just speak in different languages,” the source said, adding that the company has simply not figured out how to communicate with this administration.

"Why can't Anthropic just understand they have to bribe Trump? If he isn't getting a big piece of your action - you aren't getting any."

Anyone targeting organizations because they are antifa/anti-fascist can only be fascist. And America learned how to deal with fascists in the 1940's, and they should be treated no differently today. No. Differently.

Ever if the bubble pops, AI isn't going to go away. Profits will never justify the current expenditure, but they will make more efficient AI and it'll still be everywhere. Just probably not quite as good and enshittified to the core.

I can only hope open models can deliver what corporations will not.

When I saw that Maciej still uses X, that was it for me.

I think this is the key part for me. If I was on the fence about someone or something, X would definitely push me over the edge. I would like to see more of us publicly swearing off services for associating with awful people.

Ironic, of course, that the best place to get that message across would be X...

For being not a coder, this is fairly ambitious. I've been coding software for thirty years and I'm not sure I can offer anything technical. Personally, I'd probably try to do this in Python rather than shell script. Shell script is fine if you have tools you're just trying to stitch together, but this is far beyond that.

That being said, I get it. The first coding I ever did was making a character sheet for roleplaying by sending raw commands to my dot matrix printer from my Commodore 64. You have a vision in your head and a computer at your fingertips and you have to bring it all together.

I respect that and if part of your goal is to achieve this using only bash, then god speed. Otherwise I might look at a language that gives you library support and modularity and unit testing. I write Python scripts all the time, and the truth is I don't know Python at all, so I know it can be done. Define a unit of functionality and build that piece. When that piece works build another component. Then build a parent program that calls those two things. Then build more components. Define functions that can be reused when you have code that needs to do similar things.

The key is to build standalone functionality — what is the smallest useful thing you can do? Build it. Now you can invoke that every time you need to do the thing. Construct your program out of components you create.

This is kinda like if I told AI to build me a web service but keep everything in a single Java class. It would be a wild and unreadable, untestable mess.

Roads have been around for thousands of years, but not really the type of roads he's talking about. Especially since he doesn't remember them before cars anyway.

You can still build components and assemble them once each individual piece works. It's easier to start with something that works and add to it than start with a "fully realized" script none of which actually works.

Asking folks to review hundreds of lines of vibe-coded slop (anything, really, but especially vibe coded slop) is a big ask. I sincerely wish you luck, though. We all started somewhere and maybe as you work to fix this you'll become something of a coder yourself.

That's not really a to the point I was making, but as you've brought it up, he said that in the midst of refusing to accede to the US militaries demands that they get to use AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

You've snipped his words tactically before the pivot to refusal. He said that private companies have no say in how a military chooses to wage war however they would not allow the use of their AI for those two things.

And he's right. If Lockheed decided they didn't like Obama or a military decision of his and grounded their drones to punish him, that would be inappropriate. Lockheed nor Anthropic get to dictate US military policy. That (among other things) is why we are supposed to elect a President with the wherewithal to make those decisions.

Now, I don't know Dario. He's a rich CEO and probably he belongs at the bottom of the sea with the rest. But Anthropic refused to allow their tech to be used that way, and that's more than Google or OpenAI, both of whom were audibly salivating to supplant them. Anthropic seems to be the least bad out of all the options.

That being said, I'm placing my hopes in local AI and getting rid of all the big players, including Anthropic. But in the meanwhile, I do respect them for taking a stand none of their competitors would.

This is a right-wing rag, so I approach this with skepticism and look for the holes they chose not to fill. I do the same thing for left-wing rags as well, because I don't like being lied to by "my side" any more than I do "the other side."

It's not clear who the people are saying "fuck no" and who is "doing it anyway". The context of who she is talking to and what she is talking about is important, but the bigger issue is this sentence doesn't have enough context — what came before and after it — to derive the actual meaning.

Absolutely no politician has clean hands, especially in a swing state like MI where being too far left or right alienates a bunch of voters no matter which way you go. If Gretch is being duplicitous here, that is disappointing and worth discussing within the larger context of Michigan Democrats, however she is term-limited so it doesn't make a big difference at this point.

That being said, this article is lacking in details and comes from a source I don't trust, so there's not much to go on or discuss that I can see.

Excellent! Fuck Musk.

And while I'm not an AI hater, that is 100% the investors trying to cash out before the industry runs into trouble.