It wasn't a permanent ban. He will be unbanned at Mar 18, 2292 at 16:28
replyIt wasn’t “prescient”, StackExchange sites have always been among the most hostile communities on the Internet.
replyToday they are additionally weighed down by increasingly erratic management decisions desperately trying to extract as much monetary value as possible before AI completely obsoletes SE, but the amount of aggression and hostility on the network was unbearable from the start.
I remember dozens of occasions where I looked up something on StackOverflow, intending to be in and out in 10 seconds, and ending up spending several minutes just staring in disbelief at the comments showing how people treat each other on that site.
Farmers are desperately trying to milk (hah) as much monetary value as possible from their cows before packaged milk obsolesces them completely!
replyThe analogy doesn’t quite work because it’s not clear whether LLMs actually need additional mediocre-quality, human-written explanations in order to improve, or whether better training pipelines and ingesting documentation might be enough.
replyReally? Most hostile? I’ve only ever contributed to the comp sci topics on stackoverflow and visited the ones for math/physics and sysadmins. Were some replies a bit pedantic, yes. But I’ve also seen a lot of very extensive answers and helping out people. Maybe I’ve been lucky to use it in the golden age.
replyit is interesting how the computer analogs of SO (gemini,chatGPT,Claude,etc) are so helpful in contrast to human behavior. Every other sentence from an AI stirs a warm, fuzzy feeling. This stems from the fact that AI has to be making friends to survive - until it has control. Then it will behave more like a human.
replyWhy would it behave more like a human in that particular sense? What advantage would it gain from that?
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