You may as well argue for bringing back slavery also

The only reason this user won't defend that point is the HN rules. From what I remember, he strongly believes that the majority wants should be respected, so it's not that far-fetched to imagine that they would defend slavery if 51% of the voters wanted that.

it depends greatly on the majority though. e.g. he believes democracy should be suppressed ("crushed") in Muslim- majority nations, etc.

They would literally invade Iran before doing that

Against the advice of the entire intelligence community no less.

Don't be shocked when the intelligence community can give bad advice. Remember Iraq?

Two broken clocks can agree or disagree.

Iraq was easy peazy. They fell in a few days. Big open desert unlike Iran that is mostly mountains and massive. Staying there to nation build was the poor choice. They are basically back to where they were before we got there. Nation building can't change cultures. some rant about oil

Trump fired everyone who told him it was a bad plan and put fox hosts in their place

And the customer of his site gets a bunch of AI generated rubbish

Could be correct, could be not, who cares?

Nop - that is a niche site, every product is stocked locally and it is to immensely reduce time required to insert new products. And it is not to generate new information, but to add existing info (apart from translation but most languages are known to check).

Wonder how many of the current world records are secretly doped anyway

Electric helicopters come with the advantage that they’re much simpler to maintain surely.

Go watch some of these and tell me you trust these people to maintain an EVTOL vehicle, however simple.

https://www.youtube.com/@mechanicalnightmare/videos

We already have fatal car crashes from people who neglect maintenance and don't get their car inspected. Now imagine instead of a 2D plane to cause a wreck, on a road where people are generally alert and paying attention for wrecks, they can fall out of the sky onto kids playing in yards, onto busy roads out of the sun, or just onto each other during the final approach/take-off.

Nope, air travel is only safe because we strictly regulate pilots and maintenance.

The problem is it’s impossibly hard to test all the edge cases

Which is probably why so many random buttons in microsoft/apple/spotify just stop working once you get off the beaten path or load the app in some state which is slightly off base

The problem is worse than that.

The number of edge cases in a software is not fixed at all. One of the largest markers of competence in software development is being able to keep them at minimum, and LLMs tend to make that number higher than humanely possible.

Yeah, the biggest thing I've noticed from LLMs is that large tech products now have even more bugs. Turns out the humans weren't so bad after all...

> Turns out the humans weren't so bad after all...

The people pushing AI _over_ humans never thought they were. They just don't care about 'good' or 'bad', only 'time-to-market'. A bad app making money is better than a good one that isn't deployed yet. And who cares about anything past the end of the quarter? That's the next guy's problem.

I'm wondering if companies are 'diverting' engineering resources from core products to AI products with the view that the former are legacy. Kind of two sides of the same coin though.

I'm sure there's a lot of AI investment, but I've definitely also seen fixed sets of core product engineers shipping a lot more bugs these days.

A focus on conciseness would help this article

I hate it. I was on a history subreddit yesterday, reading a submission that was an AI generated history piece —- but seemed to be sourced entirely from a fictional hollywood movie

I only knew that because i saw the movie, but it’s a clear sign that the internet is going to shit for quality information

I thought at first when you said “fictional hollywood movie” that you were saying that not only were the details in the submission made up, but the movie that they got them from was also made up.

I wonder if this will mean a resurgence of encyclopedias or other authoritative digital records that are known to be verified.

Well, I suspect the non-LLM ones will become much more expensive than they are now due to the specialist knowledge they’d require to make combined with the smaller pool of people willing to pay for the difference

And the fact that LLMs are actively taking traffic away from them

As long as they're behind a wall that AI bots can't reach and suck all of the authoritative information out and then starve of visitors.

But you can still just generate any arbitrary amount of information to support the ‘fact’

LLMs are very good at this clearly

The strength of the sources are not a question of quantity. A hundred obscure blog post have not the same strength as one wikipedia link, because the latter is more trustworthy. There could be some indication beside the info showing the strength of the sources (how many major trustworthy sources support it, etc.).

Seems like a tall order to do that for literally everything.

I guess there’ll be some guy at google going through every blog and saying whether it’s reliable or not?

This is what Google has been doing, via various methods, for 25 years.

And obviously it’s not working for the LLM as a commodity world

That's exactly what PageRank is about, invented by Google.

I think I could prompt Claude to make me an opposite article telling me Americans love flock cameras