This is a very bad take. LLM's, appear to be at their limit. They're autocomplete and are only as good as their inputs. They can't be depended on for truth. They can't be trusted to even do math.
LLM's work as a place to bounce things off of, but still require editorial work afterword, even when they are working their best.
LLM's take huge amounts of power, both to make run, keep running, and to correct their output.
In general LLM's don't significantly reduce labor, and they are still very costly.
Even the most basic assembly line multiplies someones output. The best assembly lines remove almost all human labor. Even bad assembly lines are wholesale better than individual assembly.
As long as it's LLM, I don't believe it will ever be "useful". We need a different technology to make this sort of assistance useful.
The pace of technological change and innovation was always going to slow down this decade. But Covid, Ukraine and a decoupling from Russia/China has further slowed it.
You need three things in abundance to create tech. First an advanced economy, which narrows down most of the world. Second you need lots of capital to burn while you make said advances. Finally you need lots of 20 and thirty something’s who will invent and develop the tech.
For the last 20 years we’ve had all of those conditions in the Western world. Boomers were at the height of their earnings potential and their kids were leaving home in droves letting them pour money into investments. Low interest rates abound because capital was looking for places to be utilized. China was the workshop of the world building low to mid range stuff allowing the West to focus its excess Millennials age workforce on value added and tech work.
Now in the USA boomers are retiring and there aren’t enough GenX to make up the difference. Millennials and finally getting down to household creation or their oldest cohorts (Xennials) just now entering into their mid 40s and starting to move up in their careers but they probably still have kids to support. So it will be some time before capital becomes plentiful again. Gen Z is large but they aren’t enough to back fill the loss of Millennials.
Ohh I made a point to highlight that this was a US demographic phenomena. Europe and Japan do not have a large Millennial or GenZ populations to replace their aging boomers. We have no modern economic model to map out what will happen to them.
China is going through a demographic collapse worse than what you see in Europe or Japan. Only they aren’t rich to compensate add in the fact that they decided to antagonize their largest trading partners in the West causing the decoupling we are now seeing.
The loss of their labor means the West has to reshore or find alternative low wage markets for production and expend a lot of capital to build out the plant in those markets to do so.
Add on top geopolitical instability of the Ukraine and you have a recipe for slower tech growth.
I’ve never queried my parents intentions or motivations.
They weren’t great parents nor were they terrible. I think they did their best given their resources, knowledge, and societal norms.
I have however managed various mental health issues most of my adult life, and I know that most issues which make me miserable, would not make me miserable if I were not already miserable. For example, when I’m stressed and miserable I tend to get fixated on things happening at work and stress about them a lot more than is really warranted.
I can’t say I can relate to how OP feels, but I feel as though, if my dad told me I was an accident and unwanted or whatever that might change how I feel about him, but it wouldn’t really change how I feel about me.
For any person alive today, if you followed your ancestry back even just a handful of generations I’m sure there are unwanted pregnancies.
There are definitely some things it is healthier not to know, and I’m pretty sure this is one of them. It’s why I don’t ask my mom questions about my dad, who I have never met since being old enough to form memories and I would like to keep it that way.
Buddy, I’m the product of two idiot 16 year old addicts fucking around without protection. You’re damn well right I feel the same way. But at the end of the day, I’m here, so I’m gonna try to make the best of it where I can. And you should, too
We are all just fighting entropy for a while. How you got into the alive club? That shit don't matter. You're here. You're one of us. You don't need a permission slip.
This has happened to me only once on Linux. I still tell stories about it.
It was a CD burning program stuck in uninterruptible sleep! Trapped in a system call into the kernel that can never be interrupted by a signal, it was truly unkillable. The SIGKILLs simply piled up never to be delivered.
THIS is your big “You won’t believe what happened to me…” story???
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When I was 14, I took the power cord for the original PS1 and shaved the rubber off the end until metal prongs were sticking out. Then I noticed if the outlet end was plugged in, and you touched the metal prongs on the other end, you couldn’t drop it. It would electricute you, but it would also stick to your skin for 5-10 seconds as it electricuted you.
So being a 14 year old male, I did the only logical thing. I put it on my penis.
In this case it was a driver holding that thread captive and making an assumption about the hardware eventually responding to a request which never completes.
So yes indeed it was the kernel, and ideally the driver could be written better, but that’s probably easier said than done when the hardware can do weird things.
This was a long time ago, so for all I know the issue has been long corrected.
A while ago I kept a shortcut in the taskbar that ran a batch file that killed any unresponsive task, worked even on those tasks that Task Manager can’t seem to close. As long as explorer was still running and I could alt tab and press that button it worked 100% of the time
It was something like this. It would just kill all tasks that haven’t responded in X amount of time. Obviously this is not a great solution as it can cause data loss and you could accidentally close more than just the program you intend to close, but sometimes you have little choice.
You joke but one time after a fresh install I genuinely forgot to update (the linux header files or something) and some of the device drivers weren’t working
I used to have a similar type of rage towards my parents and my existence. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fAsHGEB69P0 this Alan Watts video helped me move past it. Not saying it will definitely help you, but it's worth a shot.
This is a... Unique way of thinking about this. I'll preface all of this by saying: Get therapy, or at least talk to people. Seriously. Feeling that every day is agony and hating your parents for giving birth to you clearly means you're hurting somewhere. There is absolutely no need for that to be your normal.
how much better that would be for everybody.
Uh... Why are you talking like you're the antichrist or something? In all likelihood you're a mildly good person in the eyes of some people and a mildly bad person in the eyes of others. I mean you know yourself better than I do, but stop for a minute and think whether the dramatic statement of "how much better that would be for everybody" makes sense.
It just frustrates me that something SO SIMPLE could have saved me 41 years of daily agony.
I know that this is the product of deeper mental health issues, but I'll just point out that you're doing the same thing your mother did; only in your case it's your life instead of Phil Hartman. I mean 41 years? Yeah you probably weren't in agony before gaining object permanence, and definitely not every single day of your life. Just because things are hard now doesn't mean you have to reject happiness you had in the past.
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