I’d turn that right back around on you. Why not take lessons from those things? Fossil fuels have done horrible damage to the environment and factory automation has caused major labor relations problems in certain countries. But do you know what they both also have in common with AI? The problems OVERWHELMINGLY come from the top 1% wealthiest people/companies using them. Climate change is not caused by individuals. Individuals using 3D printers/automation are not the ones causing labor issues. And people using AI individually are not the issue. It’s the companies. And in fact in both of those situations as well REFUSING to use the technology at all only harms you and your movement. 3D printing can help individual people deal with a few massive factories monopolizing basic things and wiping out the infrastructure we need to make things locally. Refusing to use fossil fuels at all only leads to personal economic issues because society is so structured around them you can’t avoid it realistically. Then AI is causing these open source projects to be bombarded with new code submissions to the point the only possible way they can keep functioning is to use that very AI to try and sort through it all.

The lessons are that the ones we should be fighting are the rich. Policing the actions of individuals is a losing battle and counter productive.

What are you using? Web or some app?

I think the nuclear taboo was always a myth. It’s always been the case that there were 2 groups of countries (since nukes existed). 1 group had nukes, but could also generally get their way conventionally. Another group either didn’t have nukes but couldn’t defend themselves conventionally, or had nukes and just hid behind their nuclear shield. Like the DPRK using nukes to keep the US at bay.

So the fact no nukes every got used was mostly due to the fact that the big interventionist military powers didn’t NEED their nukes to win. Unless they were facing a country that also has nukes. In which case MAD applies.

But now there’s countries that are beating nuclear powers conventionally, while also not having nukes, and not even being backed by a nuclear power (like how the USSR was there to back the Vietnamese).

Then the extra factor is that nukes aren’t all that useful in most cases. They’re too big. Too destructive. Not precision weapons. But the wars being fought now are less and less about precision. And more about just destroying the enemy entirely.

So the way I look at it isn’t as “breaking the nuclear taboo” since I generally don’t think world leaders care about stuff like that. I look at it as the conditions that motivate or demotivate a nuclear strike happening are changing.

So here’s how I see it: There is a big difference between “AI generated” code and “AI assisted” code. Or just anything.

To put it in terms most people can more understand let’s say you were writing a book. If you have an LLM generate the book its gonna suck and be slop. But if you write the rough draft, then paste it into an LLM and say, “Look through this and find typos and other mistakes and point them out to me”. Then you go and check the things it finds and fix them yourself, that is fine. It’s just a really good spellcheck at that point. Even if you say “suggest a fix” it’s fine. For coding you could even tell it like “Take this line of code and suggest 5 different ways to do the same thing that might work better” then test them all out and see which one you like best.

I have personally used an LLM to help clean up my dotfiles for example. I don’t want to read through all that shit and find the old junk I need to remove or change. So I just throw them at an LLM and have it point things out to me. Or say you know you have a file but don’t know the exact filename. Go into the folder its in and dump the output of ls into an LLM. Tell it what file you need vaguely. Have it read them and give you the correct filename. Then check it yourself.

The problem comes from people who just generate stuff and don’t do the work of double checking it themselves.

Button is right there man

The logic is the same for other nuclear nations. What exactly would nuking Russia help if it gets the nuked too? I firmly believe we will enter a period where anyone that doesn’t have a nuke is fair game to be nuked, but nuclear powers are untouchable.

You seriously believe that the US is going to risk New York and DC over Kiev? If Russia wiped Kiev off the map then NATO would be puffing up its chest and throwing a fit sure, but they’re not gonna nuke Russia over it because then they’d get nuked.

never left baby

“on launch” is for specific ICBM systems we know have nuclear warheads in them and monitor by satelite. That is not what would be used here. Automated systems cannot tell the difference between a bomber carrying a nuke and one carrying a conventional warhead. They cannot tell the difference between a normal ballistic missile and one carrying a small nuke. Until it goes off and people notice. There is no automated counter launch for that scenario as we would not even know its a nuke until it goes off. And if it already went off we clearly know where it was going. Iran, Ukraine, Russia, and the US launch missles at eachother constantly. All they need to do is stick a nuke in one of them.

1. The US does not actually dislike the “oil crisis” the US oil companies were in deep debt prior to the Iran war and were barely breaking even on their oil. This was has been a massive windfall for them. It’s a political problem for Trump yes, but the actual power players in the US (rich) love it.
2. A tactical nuke on Kiev would not destroy the value of Ukraine. You are too Fallout brained. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They’re perfectly normal cities today.

Do it in batches. You are charging for your time basically. So don’t do them one at a time. Get a few USB installers, wait til you’ve got 5 or so ready to go, and then just do them all at once. Now you can charge less. I mean idk how much your thinking of charging but installing an OS isn’t exactly difficult. Takes maybe 15 minutes.

My Latitude from like 2019 with 32GB of DDR4 sure is feeling fancy these days.

Sadly nukes are not exactly all that complicated to build. The hard part is making the uranium and designing it the first time. Once you know how and have the stuff to make it it’s pretty easy to just pump them out. That’s why we’ve got so many of the damn things.

We got the drone distributor over here.

So am I the only one sitting here wondering if the US is gonna nuke Iran first, or if Russia is gonna nuke Ukraine first? Because I feel like we’re just speeding right toward both of those things right now.

It’s perfect for them. They don’t have to do the work of maintaining an OS (Which they suck at) and get to continue monitoring the entire computer using their malwa- I mean security suite. :)

Yeah I wouldn’t leave it up to like individuals. Guilds back in the day had good systems for it. You’d get someone who had been vetted and verified to be competent assigned to you. Usually the apprentices had to “buy in” that doesn’t mean money persay. But labor could be the buy in. If you want to be given some of a skilled mentors time then you’d have to put in labor to prove you were serious about it and earn it.

I wonder how effective a master/apprentice situation could be for this? Like someone gets taken under the wing of a veteran contributor and all their work is vetted and signed off on my that person before being submitted. They get taught how to do things and in return maybe do some of the busywork for the veteran. Because your always going to need new contributors but you need a way to vet them.

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I agree. I’d rather build from source.