I’m not denying any of this. I just don’t like it when people use this as an argument not o use some projects. So the devs are not great at one-to-one communication? Ok, is the documentation good? Is the code clear? Are the bugs fixed in a timely manner? Are support tickets answered? If yes then I don’t care how nice they are. I assume that I will have to figure it out by myself and if there’s someone to ask that’s just a nice bonus. At the same time I see a lot of people that expect others to pretty much assist them on every step and complain when devs don’t do it. It’s just weird.

Yeah but I’m pretty sure reading AI news stories will not give me psychosis.

A community that ridicules people asking questions or responds with “just read the source code” might as well just continue believing in “self-documenting” code.

From my time on discord I think what open source projects need to accommodate some users are full time HR-therapist-personal tutor type positions. People will show up to channels about development tools, ask the most insane questions (“Guys, how do yo build an operating system and/or browser?”) and expect immediate answers. Anything other then the most apologetic, calculated, professional response is treated like a personal attack and used to denounce the entire project. I’m constantly amazed by the patience of some of the contributors (that do it for free BTW) and the concept of judging project by the PR skills of its developers still seams bizarre to me. For me the important thing was always the quality of documentation and code, not how nice the devs are to me. But hey, I guess I’m old and I didn’t learn everything I know from ChatGPT.

Fortunately AI is not big enough part of my life to care about this one way or another. It definitely has it’s uses but I never used as anything other than data transformation and as a search engine alternative. I don’t know what kind of people confuse AI with a companion and have sincere conversations with it, I don’t know how to help them and I don’t care how this will impact the AI industry.

Unfortunately It came from external provider. I like Iberia.

Is it illegal to own a sedan there?

System vs Toy?

Depends what SciFi we’re talking about. “2001: A Space Odyssey” plays like a total fairly tale now but I would say it was technically achievable to have lunar base in 2001 (but not going to Jupiter if I remember the plot correctly). Mars trilogy by Robinson starts in 2035 if I remember correctly and initial mission was based on cheap launch system to orbit. I think this was also feasible with sustained investment. A lot of other SciFi is based on FTL travel, AI or hibernation which we cannot place on some tech roadmap so we cannot say what does and doesn’t “lead” to it.

Plenty of things could have been done with proper investment even before going to Mars. Reusable rockets, cheaper launch systems, more flights to the moon, moon bases, space stations. Yes, Mars is difficult but it would be easier with well established presence in the orbit and on the moon. All of this happened way too late (or never) because no one wanted to invest in it.

It is. It’s about people fighting a war in space. Saying that it happened “long time ago” in a different galaxy or in alternative reality doesn’t make it a historical drama.

He’s saying the launch was done badly because some users are in love with GPT-4 and it should not be removed. From a point of view of a investor having people addicted to your product is a good thing.

“You hear someone is so lonely they can only feel good when their are drunk and your takeaway is that they deserve to be sober? Have some fucking empathy”

I don’t know what you’re getting at. It was a show about war. It was grim. It’s not a optimistic take on the future. I don’t care if it had happy ending or if technically it was set in the past.

I think that global war with machines and death of most of the population is quite a pessimistic take on the future.

I also never watched original BSG but I assumed the part about aliens blowing up everything and the war with robots in general was still there.

I have to say, I don’t think this has ever happened to me. I don’t buy smart devices, I use few commercial apps. Forced updates are not that common in open source world. Just look for products made by people with passion. Those might be a bit more expensive but you will see it’s worth it in the long run.

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Déjà vu.

People are confusing optimism with naiveté. The old sci-fi assumed the rate of progress with be constant or even accelerate. They saw people got to space and moon in what? 20 years? So they thought we will get to Mars by the end of century and beyond our solar system some time after that. They didn’t predict the end of Cold War and massive disinvestment from space exploration. But there were plenty of pessimistic takes on the future. In Bladerunner all the animals are dead, in Alien everything is run by evil corporations, in Battlestar Galactica everyone dies, in Star Wars whole worlds are destroyed, apocalyptic visions are common. Getting the dates wrong is not the same as being optimistic.

Yeah, this sure resonates with me. When I started with Linux to set up anything you had to RTFM. I remember constantly reading some “Linux printing How-To” or “Linux Wi-Fi How-To”. It definitely stayed with me. If I buy something and it has a manual I’m reading it. Just in case.