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Does it make it sound better that it means humanity in bantu languages, and also designates a philosophy of interconnectedness in a “I am because we are” sense, according to wikipedia?

The kind of AI you’re talking about that could replace human labour to the point of making something like a post-scarcity society happen isn’t even on the horizon, and I don’t believe the llm hype has any chance of leading to it at any point. But even if it were the case, imo there’s no scenario where capitalist societies transition to a post-scarcity utopia where human labor is replaced by machine labor through technological innovation.

The 19th and 20th centuries are a history of human labor being displaced rather than replaced by innovation. People are made obsolete in their own jobs, but the fundamental threat of “work or starve” remains structural. So people who are older, already specialized and who can’t easily change occupations become atrociously poor or straight up die, and younger people find and invest their formative years in new ways to work, producing stuff that’s not yet automated.

So before you can even think about a post-scarcity utopia you need something like ubi and a socialist organization where people who get innovated out of their jobs can still live, but if you have that kind of society I think it would naturally orient itself toward degrowth and production of what is needed through human labor, rather than the kind of overproduction frenzy necessary for everyone’s labor to be continuously replaced with metal and silicium.

Coming from a more science/engineering background than a cs/programming one and having tried both, I wholeheartedly disagree. Or at least it’s a higher floor and lower ceiling situation.

And from an engineering industry standpoint the transition cost (or at least compatibility) from generated C, and the lack of a simulink-like block implementation/visualization and code generation pipeline still make it a hard sell. The block thing isn’t just for comfort in those circles, it’s to do with industry standards for system definitions and representation.

Don’t get me wrong I wish Rust changed that game: I hate MATLAB with a passion; I’m just pessimistic.

I believe the only reasons MATLAB persists are Simulink and a C code generation engine that outputs embeddable code that conforms to some regulation or other in the engineering world. Does gnu octave have similar features? I’ve spent a while looking fruitlessly for python-based alternatives…

When you mix paint, you mix pigments that each absorb certain colors, so they won’t reflect it. You’re subtracting colors to the ambient white light that reflects a smaller and smaller portion of the spectrum on the painted surface, and if you mix enough colors you substract most of it and get a dark brown or even black. When you encode rgb values for a screen, you tell pixels to add colors to the light your screen is generating, and if you add enough you get a white light.

I’ve been in similar situations in large or semi-large chat channels when you want to adhere to something and give the possibility to others to adhere similarly without flooding the channel with messages simply saying “me too”. So attaching an emoji reaction feels more adequate, that way anyone can just append their own and you can see groupal adhesion directly. Sometimes 💯 works, but it sometimes doesn’t.

EDIT: the more I think on it, the more an emoji saying “+1” feels like it should fill that need when 💯 doesn’t. Maybe someone should propose this to the Unicode consortium

The media?

They’re not entirely wrong, of course, but they’re really stretching this simple stereotype into some deep difference in psychologies and assigning it to this “concept of a marketplace of idea vs. rationality and enlightenment” oversimplification.

Honestly, as a European person who’s been through bits of both school systems, it mainly sound like an uninformed rant from an American who’s angry with the state of the US and who’s completely idealized Europe as a result – even though their only vista into EU cultures is a bunch of titles of unread articles from the part of the US media they most agree with.

Which would be fine if they hadn’t worded what amounts to an overindulged shower thought in such a peremptory fashion.

Basically they behaved like their own stereotype of “american psychology”, which we do have quite enough of at home thank you very much.

It looks like the blowback is less about one side beinng better or worse than the other, and more about this whole thesis sounding like the most obnoxious fourteen year old you’ve ever met larping as a sociologist with zero substantiation to their sweeping statements

Late nineties to early two thousands on an arch-based distro is Ayanami Rei territory for sure

EDIT: could also be Serial Expeirments Lain or Major Kusanagi depending on your age and horniness in asking this question