NaibofTabr

The age of something has no correlation to whether or not spoiling it for someone is valid.

Eh, I don’t know… if someone complained (unfacetiously) that I’d spoiled Romeo & Juliet for them I’d disregard basically everything they said after.

It will still be Obama’s fault somehow.

AI coding tools can do common, simple functions reasonably well, because there are lots of examples of those to steal from real programmers on the Internet. There is a large corpus of data to train with.

AI coding tools can’t do sophisticated, specific-case solutions very well, because there aren’t many examples of those for any given use case to steal from real programmers on the Internet. There is a small corpus of data to train with.

AI coding tools can’t solve new problems at all, because there are no examples of those to steal from real programmers on the Internet. There is no corpus of data to train with.

AI coding tools have already ingested all of the code available on the Internet to train with. There is no more new data to feed in. AI coding tools will not get substantially better than they are now. All of the theft that could be committed has been committed, which is why the AI development companies are attempting to feed generated training material into their models. Every review of this shows that it makes the output from generative models worse rather than better.

Programming is not about writing code. That is what a manager thinks.
Programming is about solving problems. Generative AI doesn’t think, so it cannot solve problems. All it can do is regurgitate material that it has previously ingested which is hopefully close-ish to the problem you’re trying to solve at the moment - material which was written by a real thinking human that solved that problem (or a similar one) at some point in the past.

If you patronize a generative AI system like Claude Code, you are paying into, participating in, and complicit in, the largest example of labor theft in history.

O’Neill cylinders solve most issues using 1970’s materials science.

On paper. No one’s actually built a rotating space habitat to simulate gravity with centripetal force (yet).

We must reach the final technology of fully understood biology

We are so, so far away from this… biology is one of those fields where the more we learn, the more questions come up. We barely have a surface grasp of some of the mechanisms of the brain. Blood gets more complicated with every study. We’ve mapped the genome but we have little understanding of what most of it actually does. And the link between gut bacteria and neurological health… we kind of just know that it exists, and not much beyond that.

So basically your circulatory system is evolved to work in a gravity field. Without gravity, blood doesn’t circulate properly, and the further a part of your body is from your heart the worse the problem is. Your heart doesn’t have to work as hard to pump against gravity… so it doesn’t.

As the human body consists mostly of fluids, gravity tends to force them into the lower half of the body, and our bodies have many systems to balance this situation. When released from the pull of gravity, these systems continue to work, causing a general redistribution of fluids into the upper half of the body.

Without gravity pulling down on your body, your legs don’t have to work to keep you upright. Your muscles atrophy, and after extended periods in low gravity the tough tissue on the bottom of your foot falls off.

In a weightless environment, astronauts put almost no weight on the back muscles or leg muscles used for standing up. Those muscles then start to weaken and eventually get smaller. Consequently, some muscles atrophy rapidly, and without regular exercise astronauts can lose up to 20% of their muscle mass in just 5 to 11 days.

You lose bone mass.

Due to microgravity and the decreased load on the bones, there is a rapid increase in bone loss, from 3% cortical bone loss per decade to about 1% every month the body is exposed to microgravity, for an otherwise healthy adult. The rapid change in bone density is dramatic, making bones frail and resulting in symptoms that resemble those of osteoporosis.

And… the shape of your eyeball changes… because it’s supposed to be in gravity.

[a] NASA survey of 300 male and female astronauts, about 23 percent of short-flight and 49 percent of long-flight astronauts said they had experienced problems with both near and distance vision during their missions. Again, for some people vision problems persisted for years afterward.

And all of that doesn’t start to address the problems created by radiation exposure due to being outside the protection of the magnetic field and the atmosphere - the increased cancer rates, the weakened immune system…

There’s more detail in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body

Long-term life in space is functionally a fantasy right now. Astronauts who spend months in space sacrifice their health. To spend years in space would shorten your lifespan substantially.

You can leave the gravity well, but… you can’t escape your evolution.

Oh, that’s nice!

Do you have any idea what happens to your body without gravity?

birds of a feather

Canada joins North Korea in an exclusive group.

plug for somafm

er, oh dear, so just one more piece of the endless cycle of abuse then?

A weed whacker.

Specifically the 1984 David Lynch version, with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem doing reprisals of the soundtrack.

Even better if the whole thing is framed as a play being produced in the Muppet Theater as if it were an extended episode of the Muppet Show.

Or pipe GUI output into another GUI function.

Or >> log.txt

Er, wouldn’t that also set the value of human life to $0?

AI came along and just whacked it with the sloppy stick.

ugh, why is the top image so sloppy

The technology enables the surveillance state. Therefore the technology is not amoral.

Enabling a surveillance state is not amoral.

I mean… do you know what community you’re in right now?