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Comment Re:"AI-savvy developers" (Score 1) 117

If you are really this productive using AI tools for software development, you could probably make even more money than you do presently by making video courses for how to achieve the results that you have. Because for a large majority of software developers, AI modes pose more problems than they solve. Browse this thread to look for examples, including: hallucinations of API methods that don't exist; conflation of two separate technologies that share a common terminology; lack of coherence when asking the AI model to construct anything more complicated than a simple CRUD operation; AI model preference to rely upon counterproductive solutions, such as deleting problematic code instead of fixing it; mixing of methodologies, design patterns, and mental models in a way that results in extremely inconsistent software; generating large amounts of low-value artifacts, such as a hundred unit tests that fail to achieve as much coverage as ten human-authored unit tests; etc. etc. etc.

Comment Re:What is thinking? (Score 1) 289

The problem with this line of thinking is that you are ignorant of the fact that we CAN say what is not thinking, and we've narrowed down the problem quite a bit.

We've not narrowed it down nearly enough to determine which portions of LLM behavior are and are not thinking.

Comment Re:Sustaining life to understand alien life? (Score 1) 95

It will a provide a better point of reference, due to shared experiences. For example, what happens if the third or fourth generation of space-faring humans start having genetic issues caused by the increased radiation in space? If we see that happening to us, we will better understand when it happens to other species.

Comment Re:I reject the premise (Score 1) 95

You are demonstrating a perspective that is pretty terrestrial-centric.

Shackleton was able to explore Antarctica because it was relatively easy to return (with "relatively" being comparable to, say, returning from the moon or Mars).

At some point in the evolution of human exploration, we are going to visit places that are so far away from Earth that ferrying materials back and forth will be simply infeasible. At that point, we'll need to learn how to exploit resources that are local to the destinations we visit.

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