Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@peterdrake @lucifargundam To be clear I do not think it's a bad thing when technology "destroys jobs". People think it's a bad thing because, IMO, they confuse costs for benefits (since practically speaking you need a job to get an income, people think they want a job rather than an income).

@peterdrake I never think of creating jobs as good, since a job is a cost of production.

Also, usually the people who talk about job creation are talking about creating them in a specific place, which I don't care about.

Though in reality a useful job is much better than make work, since make work is paying the cost without producing anything.

It is amazing that this is a disambiguation page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Wisconsin

@simon In the limit of "the LLM is as smart as the smartest human", you would still expect to need to give it the right kind of context and information to do what you want. Communication skills are super useful on both sides of the table.

Though I suppose somewhere along the way smarter LLMs will proactively recognize ambiguities and ask for clarification, which will lower the degree you which you need to be good at asking it to do something.

@Daniel_Blake Feel free to do a tiny amount of research on the myriad reasons people have for using Signal as their SMS client, and the reasons why this is a *horrible* move on Signal's part.

@Daniel_Blake They do not have good reason to pull it.

In fact, I'm kinda, busy apologizing to the people who I sold on Signal with the line, "Oh it's great because you can use it as an SMS client that just upgrades you to a better protocol when the other person is using Signal, too!"

"You will no longer be able to send SMS messages from Signal soon. Invite <x> to Signal to keep the conversation here."

Lol. I'd love to keep using Signal, but this move doesn't exactly inspire me to try and sell it to anyone else.

@jacob You also seem to be a very modal runner as well!

@hynek "Hynek, you've been such a loyal KLM customer that we are awarding you lifetime platinum status... on Lufthansa. Or Virgin if you'd prefer? BA? Whatever you want, just let us know, as long as it's not us."

"Yeah, I like search and all, but what I'd really like is a version of search where an idiot explains the contents of each page to me."

Look, chevre is a good cheese no doubt, but it's a bit hyperbolic to call it GOAT cheese... #hottake

@jacob I'm curious to know, did MacroFactor work out for you, or did you find something different?