• utopiah@lemmy.world
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    Good thing movements reclaiming streets back for citizens already exist. In fact even businesses who initially opposed this actually realize it’s better for them too.

    Looks at photos of Amsterdam and Paris just decades ago. It’s like smoking in planes.

    We as a society try, fail, learn, and overcome BS.

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    Just like AI was made to make people think less, cars were made so people couldn’t play on the streets anymore so we would have less Vitamin D and physical activity. First step to domination is weakening your enemy.

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    Jensen’s leather jacket shtick is worse than Zukk’s necklace bling bullshit. CEO “cool” consultants living the dream making these guys look like absolute clowns.

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    Everyone has to start buying my product. We have no choice. I don’t make the rules.

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    Everyone should use guillotines. Society has no choice but to change. I used to be a parasite. When the revolution came along, you obviously can’t be a parasite now

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      In reality, everyone should use securities backed loans. You have no choice but to change. I used to be starving. You can’t be a poor anymore.

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      He also thinks there are one billion people on earth total. So between that and the invention of cars being in his memory, I think we can place him solidly in the mid 1800’s?

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      Huang was born and spent early childhood in the city of Taipei. In 1968, by the time he was five years old, there were 17,000 cars and 75,000 motorcycles† in the city with population of 13,801,200‡, with one car per 812 people.


      Sources:
      † Taipei MRT celebrates its 30th birthday | EuroView, 2026
      ‡ Population records increases in Taiwan | CountryEconomy

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        How old was he before cars were invented and playing in the street though

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      Saburo Arasaka was born in 1919 in Japan… wait, sorry, wrong biography. This corporate villain was born in Taiwan in 1963.

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    Turns out, if you don’t sacrifice cities on the car altar and plan for quality of life instead, children can in fact play on the streets. The Netherlands show it.

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    The AI bubble depends on this kind of brainwashing to stay inflated. But they can’t escape the truth, that AI is an answer looking for a question that isn’t necessarily being asked. Sure there are useful applications, but I don’t actually need it for anything I do.

    It seems to be a big deal to people who don’t know how to do a lot of stuff. I already know how to do a lot of things, and I know how to find info by reading when I need to learn something, so the most popular use cases for AI don’t apply to me and I just don’t use it.

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      Sure there are useful applications, but I don’t actually need it for anything I do.

      I’ve seen applications that are very useful. YouTuber Berm Peak used ai to bypass the controller of the world’s worst ebike so it wouldn’t become e-waste and fix it’s worst flaws. Yes new firmware could have been written from scratch. But he fixes bikes. He’s not a software developer.

      It’s like you don’t need a ball point pen to write, you could use a quill and save the plastic waste. But quills are so slow you don’t even consider it.

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        So in other words… it’s a big deal to people who don’t know how to do a lot of stuff.

        I actually know how to write software, and I refuse to work on any code an LLM has touched. Critical thinking is one of the most important parts of programming, and LLMs can’t do it. That results in broken spaghetti code that’s a nightmare to fix, because the AI never stopped to think about maintainability, low coupling, or the actual purpose of the software. It can’t stop and think.

        If Berm Peak would rather use AI than hire a software developer or write his own code, then I hope all of Berm Peak’s customers use AI to fix their bikes instead of going to him.

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          . it’s a big deal to people who don’t know how to do a lot of stuff.

          It’s also a big deal to the extremely competent developers. The other person I saw use AI which makes me want to try it is Limor Fried. I watched one of her videos where she input a 50 page microcontroller pdf and got useable io mapping header files for her c code. Matching pins to ports in a doc that’s spreads the info out across many pages is a huge grind.

          It’s not like I’m illiterate, but I’m open to using a plastic ball point pen instead of catching and killing a goose to make my own quill.

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        A dude DYI’ing his bike isn’t something to even take into account…

        Like saying screwdrivers are useful because I used one once to hammer in a nail because I didn’t have a hammer and I had no idea what I was doing… Doesn’t mean the screwdriver was useful in that instance, it just means I was too incompetent to use the right tool and knowledge for the job.

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          A dude DYI’ing his bike isn’t something to even take into account…

          I’m old enough to remember Hypercard. It was a revolution for regular people to create the one off app they needed to fix their own problems.

          Hypercard was a nightmare for professional development. But it didn’t matter. It was a tool for regular people.

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    God, he is such an insufferable dick and no jack ass, kids still play in the streets even with the cars but I wouldn’t expect a out of touch billionaire to even understand a bit of actual life and no, I don’t want your AI slop anywhere near my life.