Autonomous vehicles should be on the road iff they reduce overall incidents/deaths. Failure to deal with an out-of-distribution scenario would count against this, but may be rare enough to not significantly affect the average.
Most of humanity is mediocre. Very few people are excellent. You're response of "touch luck, just be better" to a population with a mean IQ of 100 will lead to pitchforks in the streets.
A shocking number of people are so well below mediocre that its kind of amazing how okayish we get by even pre AI. Makes me thing there is more robustness than you might expect given terrible numbers.
For example what seemed crazy to me that as a country Greece somehow had and still has ~half of their households *primary* source of income being pensions.
I'm talking about writers and software developers. Not everyone. The mob is already here, in the comments.
You can't automate taste so far. That's why I'm saying: if you, as a writer, bring no taste because you're the equivalent of a code money, what are you expecting?
> That's why I'm saying: if you, as a writer, bring no taste because you're the equivalent of a code money, what are you expecting?
You're assuming "Writer laid of must be because org did not find them to be a very good writer".
The issue,
#1, unless you're yourself an editor or a former writer, you really can't distinguish between moderate and excellent writing. (I know someone personally who's very experienced, and I struggled while actively trying to make out the tells in the quality of writing. The difference between good and great writing can be very subtle.)
Bigger issue #2 is, the board DGAF about any of this.
If they can get a sloppy write up for free with their chatgpt subscription instead of a fair human price, who cares if the quality and brand value drops and the company goes bankrupt? That's an issue 5 years from now, good thing the CEO's already retired by then, right?
Not sure my point gets across tbh. What you describe is that the person getting fired is "only a writer" to the board. I think that ship has sailed. Call it personal brand, taste, whatever. I think you need to provide more nowadays than "I can do exactly this predefined job". I find it hard to find the right words right now.
Do I think that this is a good thing? No. I don't think most people have taste (tm) nor that we should live in a world where only the most distinguished have work. I'm just observing what happens in my world. Maybe it's going to burn us all to the ground, but it is what it is if you wanna make money.
I can understand if you're saying that perhaps the writer should also contribute in a more holistic way, get their contributions upstreamed etc. That does make sense.
Only thig is I'm not sure how many CEOs/orgs care about writers going above and beyond. A small firm run by a sensible person, sure. But I don't think most of these jobs are from small players.
In 2010 I paid 3k for a 10 year old truck with 100k miles. That same truck today costs easily 15k. Same story for rent. Same story for groceries. Same story for health insurance.
Who gives a shit how much trinkets costs if you can't afford groceries and rent?
Housing, vehicles, groceries, and health insurance are all up massively. Who gives a shit how much a game costs if you can't afford groceries and rent?
Fortunately, you are wrong. The cost of milk in 1995 was $2.50/gallon; today, it's about $4.13/gallon — which is less than inflation since 1995. Ditto for many other grocery products: although you can always cherry pick some that have gone up relative to inflation (e.g. eggs), there are many that gave gone down. Groceries are tracked by the CPI.
Vehicles are also cheaper relative to inflation. In 1995, a new Toyota Camry cost $16k base. Today, a new Toyota Camry costs $28k base, which is less than inflation on $16k since 1995 — while being much safer, faster, larger, more comfortable, with a better sound system, and more fuel-efficient. Vehicle prices are tracked by the CPI, as well.
We can keep going. How about a pair of canvas Converse sneakers in 1995? $30 new. Today, 30 years later with 112% inflation: $60 new, aka, slightly cheaper relative to inflation than in the 90s.
I'm guessing you use a laptop for work. Let's see: in 1991, an Apple Powerbook cost a little over $2k. Today, you can buy a Macbook Air that makes the 1991 laptop seem like an abnormally heavy and ugly calculator for $1k. Is it unfair that I'm using laptops rather than desktops? Okay, let's look at desktops: in 1998 when the iMac launched, it cost $1299. Today, a massively faster iMac with a much larger screen costs... $1299.
Etc etc.
As per my original comment: you are right that housing has gone way up. But not everything has, and wages have gone up as well, and it would be very hard to claim overall cost of living is up 3x while wages are up less.
> Could you give some specific examples of AI regulations that you think would be good?
AI companies need to be held liable for the outputs of their models. Giving bad medical advice, buggy code etc should be something they can be sued for.
90% of the time I'm pro anything that causes a problem for the big corporations, but buggy code? C'mon.
It's a pile of numbers. People need to take some responsibility for the extent to which they act on its outputs. Suing OpenAI for bugs in the code is like suing a palm reader for a wrong prediction. You knew what you were getting into when you initiated the relationship.
Imagine if the only way to build a skyscraper was to start with a dollhouse and keep tacking extensions and pieces onto it until. Imagine if the only way to build a bridge across San Francisco bay was to start with pop sickle sticks.
Jumping straight to the new release because it fixed one security bug has always struck me as a round about way of trying to achieve security through obscurity, especially when the releases include tons of other changes. Yes, this release fixed CVE-123, but how many new ones were added?
This is a valid security strategy tho, always shifting the ground beneath the attackers feet. As the code author, you might not know where there are vulnerabilities in your code, but someone targeting you does. You will never have bug free code, so better to just keep it in constant flux than allow an attacker to analyze an unchanging application over months and years.
> But field access does not compose easily if you have a nested hierarchy of objects. Your natural choice in the "OOP style" is to write a lot of boiler plate to point to each different field you want to get/set.
This is a self inflicted problem. Make data public and there is no boilerplate.
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