What's the worst that can happen if life in the oceans dies out? /s

There are professions where your job is mostly bullshitting: politician, journalist (specifically writing editorials), sales, fiction author, HR, middle manager, etc. Those jobs are going to be impacted, or in some cases, replaced by LLMs. But those people (in particular the journalists who write these articles) seem to think that everyone else's job involves just as much bullshitting as theirs. But there are lots of jobs where being correct matters: engineering, technicians, warfighting, surgeons, construction, etc. The danger is that people are going to try to use LLMs to do these jobs and it's going to be dangerous.

Ah yes, fuck everyone else. I'm an ignorant bastard so everyone around me has to suffer.

I've realized that LLMs are not "artificial intelligence." They frequently make incorrect statements that exude confidence and authority. They're "artificial bullshitters."

Why do you think that Solar does take away area from agriculture?

If you cover about 10% of the roofs of an average city, Solar can generate enough electricity on average to cover the energy needs of that city. And it does not take away any areas from agriculture. Imagine covering 10% of a city with nuclear power plants!

Why do you think that? Aren't they always ridiculed as being tree huggers, and now, they should be upset that planting trees seems to have a positive effect?

You, Sir, make no sense.

"Proving a suspected murderer guilty by establishing an ironclad alibi for everyone else on the planet"

I'll see your Sherlock Holmes fallacy and raise you a Reverse Burden of Proof fallacy.

There has always been a better way, but stubborn fascination with x86 has held the chip industry back for decades. It is definitely time to move on and I'm glad someone has taken it up.

It seems like if you're so poor that you can't afford to buy groceries in cash, you should consider using the food bank. That's what it's there for.

The English language specifically refers to the Culicidae as mosquitos. I gave the common names to the other families too: black flies, sand flies and (non-biting) midges.

If LLM coding is just a better stackoverflow, then that's hardly going to replace programmers. Typically if you increase the ability of programmers to do their jobs efficiently, then you increase the demand for programmers. That's how the Jevons Paradox works. But this is just an incremental gain at best. Not a huge improvement.

Yes. If driving is part of your job, and you break your arm, you are actively discouraged to drive anyway and should take sick days, or concentrate on desk tasks for the time being. If an accident happens when you are driving with a broken arm (or a similar impairment), you will get assigned at least a share of guilt, and you might lose your insurance.

Which mosquito?

The order "Flies" (Diptera) encompasses about 160,000 species in more than 200 families, and all of them are important pollinators. Of the Culicidae, or mosquitos, we know about 3800 species. Ceratopogonidae or sand flies are related, another 5000 species. But of the black flies (Simuliidae), nearly all 2400 species are obligatorily blood-sucking, that means both sexes suck blood, while of mosquitos and sand flies, only the female do. On the other hand, t the closely related Chironomidae or non-biting midges don't suck blood at all. But they are more closely related to sand flies and black flies than to mosquitos.

AI-assisted coding has been around for a little while now, and the gains people are claiming are absolutely massive. Yet where's the evidence? How come I haven't seen any meaningful change in any applications that I use on a daily basis? Where's the guy cranking out big new popular apps at an astonishing rate and just raking in the cash? The answer is simple: it's a scam. These claims are being made by people who are trying to get investment dollars, or who've received investment dollars and need to continually reassure their investors that the money didn't go to waste. Don't buy into it. At the very least demand some evidence.

The *real* problem is with people who aren't skilled enough at operating a motor vehicle

That is where your sentence should have ended. There is a large majority of people who do not know how to drive a motor vehicle. Braking at green lights, not turning right on red, braking going down the most insignificant hill rather than coasting, not accelerating when the light turns green, not yielding when entering a roadway, driving below the speed limit, making a turn from the middle of the lane rather than the edge, etc.

If I had a dime for every person I've been around who has done any one of the above, I'd never have to work again.