My school was barely 15 years ago, but we also had a thin book handed out to us in 7th grade or so that contained charts and references for pretty much everything in a very condensed form. Periodic tables, formulas for math and physics, chemical and physical attributes for a bunch of materials, … And the entire ASCII table for some reason.

That was in Germany during the 00s and I still have that book, and three or four copies I stole over time.

If you’re so far on the right that even Goebbels would have found you extreme, everything is left wing.

I work at a company that does ai research.

You are so emotionally charged.

Let me rephrase that: “My salary depends on believing that AI is great, so I will not stop believing”

But sure, I’m emotionally charged. Not the guy who’s (poorly) defending his excuse for work.

Ähm, warum genau glaubst du, wurden diese sehr spezifischen Steuern eingeführt? Flugsicherung ist da raus, aber die Ticketsteuer ist damals eine Möglichkeit gewesen, um die Kerosinsteuer durch die Hintertür einzuführen. Also direkt Klimaschutz dabei.

So all your points are “nu-uh”.

Show me a single product that is even close to being worth the investment.

How can openAI ever recoup all the money?

This tech has already irreversibly changed coding, graphic design, marketing, writing, education,…

Where? Writing boilerplate articles without content for dying news outlets? “Coding” hardly changed. You know why? Because typing code is by far the least time consuming part of the work.

And where are all those great graphic design products? You mean those cool images of Trump riding a laser velociraptor?

You think companies would be investing hundreds of billions if there is nothing there?

Yes. Also, Metaverse, blockchain, etc. Ever heard of the dotcom bubble? Same pattern.

You would be wrong, as I work in AI research.

Hard doubt. Because the number one virtue of a scientist is to know the limitations of their subject. So either you’re not actually a researcher, or a really bad one.

It’s been like that for decades. It’s the quintessential “saving face” bullshit. Every attack is just performative violence to show the own supporters/population that you are actually strong, proud and won’t ever let anybody push you around!

Absolutely pathetic.

Then where is it?

There’s hardly any application that’s more than a gimmick. ChatGPT is an incompetent liar, Sora and all the image/video generators produce mediocre crap the can’t reasonably controlled, chat bots keep making up stuff, etc. etc.

This tech is done. Why do you think there’s no progress from openai? The tech hit a ceiling. LLMs scaled to their current state very quickly, but each increment used exponentially more compute. There’s not enough compute, not enough training data to get better.

I’m pretty sure, you don’t understand how models work. It’s just magic for you. Just like blockchains, NFTs and VR. None of them changed the world in any meaningful way - just scams.

AI companies very fundamentally don’t make money, and have no way to become profitable in the near future. None of their tech has any business model. OpenAI relies 100% on Microsoft essentially donating azure instances.

Sure, AI has its applications, but not hundreds of billions worth of applications.

We’ll try again in world war three 🎵

That’s an internet thing.

You often can’t easily distinguish irony/sarcasm from stupidity, written language (i.e., no cues like tone), language barriers in general (as a non-native I might not get subtleties or might use them wrong), and the high density of people on the spectrum doesn’t exactly help.

Understanding people is hard.

Humans actually ignore certain bad attributes of music if that’s what they’re used to.

There has been a study a whole back and essentially, if you’re old, you are much more tolerant to the typical tape noise and hissing than young people, simply because that’s what you grew up with. MP3s and digital compression in general sounds really bad, though. For young people, the opposite is true, they can ignore compression artifacts, but not tape hiss.

You successfully managed to ignore the joke entirely.

Why the hate? Because 99% of what’s AI now is actively harming society.

Training and running them consumes enormous amounts of energy, all the IP is within some gigantic monopolistic corporations, these corporations in turn push huge amounts of money into products that are not only bad, but dangerous (MS Recall or X’s porn generator AI), other corporations use AI as excuses to fire thousands of people and letting their core products rot away.

Currently, AI has hardly any positive sides, and those positives are very very narrow. Overall it’s a net negative.

High Budget movies are not art, but an industrial product.

As I wrote before, there’s a ton of money in these movies. If nobody is reading these scripts before making them, then someone isn’t doing their job.

I’m still not sure, how in the last years so many high profile dumpster fires were made and released.

Critical acclaim aside, that’s not the metric studios go for, but so many movies were just garbage from the very start. How does this happen? Movie scripts go through so many hands and take forever to realize. Did nobody notice how bad they were? There’s a ton of money at stake, why are not even the managers concerned about this?

Stored Procedures have been a thing for literally decades. But they’re an absolute pain.

What would really improve the usefulness of databases are autoindexes and generally more “let me handle that for you”. I’d argue 90% of business apps essentially need a way to store objects and their relationships, but doing that in an efficient manner is really hard (at least if you’ve got a few more rows to handle).

So you still live under the false dichotomy of the Red Scare and think everyone not wanting a hard capitalist dick up their ass must be kissing a dictator’s ass instead.

This is roughly the level of reasoning a 5 year old would be happy to engage with.

Inflation Reduction Act?

I’m skeptical about complex voting systems, simply because they cause a lot of confusion and some people don’t understand what they’re voting for.

Here in Germany we get two votes for the Bundestag, it’s essentially a split between district vote and federal vote. The system is pretty simple, you get two columns, one with people, one with parties. And many voters still don’t understand the implications of it.

My city’s council has such a stupid voting system (multiple votes, multiple districts and parties), that it took me and my friends (all having masters degrees or doctorates, one literally being a pol sci teacher) several hours and an absurd chain of local/state websites to finally find a Word(!!) document that somewhat explained the process, and we still don’t really know what was happening.

My point is not that 80% of people are too stupid to understand these systems, but too lazy to look for information, and that’s fine. Even the stupidest voter should be able to find and understand the system within 5min. If not, information is obscured or the system too complex.

You just need a very very very narrow definition of your “demos”.

The ranking is perfectly fine, since some of these languages in practice are interchangeable.

You’ll find business software in Java, C#, Python (and VBA, but we’re not talking about that), and you’ll find more system oriented software in C, C++, Rust.

Now, you’re right insofar that it’s misleading to lump all languages together, C and JS rarely compete, but it’s a useful tool to gauge developer/employer pools. If you decide, which language to learn because you want to dip into a new niche, you might not want to learn Steve’s obscure cross-paradigm language (SOCL), but e.g. Rust or whatever is popular.

Same is true for businesses. Yes, your software may be written in really good C, but it’s probably a good idea to go the Java route for the next project, since it’s hard to find 20 new C devs for web apps.

I’m not saying that this specific ranking here is good, its metrics are dubious at best, but the idea isn’t inherently stupid.