I don’t think this is true. 20th century authoritarians made great effort to leverage the law and use legal systems.

Rule of law doesn’t address the problem of bad laws (from bad governance).

Don't confuse having courts with rule of law. Read up in the thread, someone mentioned how important separation of powers is. I can't stress how true this idea is. In authoritarian regimes, courts are under the control of the dictator, not a separate branch who will overrule even their own political party (as just happened in the US and regularly happens all over the west).

The claim here was rule of law. Separation of powers is not equivalent.

Rare outliers indicate the root problem is not the structure. All the interesting questions arise from the outliers

The culture and trust of the people makes the system work or fail, not the system itself.

What do you mean brute force?

We can compute these things using iteration or polynomial approximations (sufficient for 64 bit).

There is a loop of is it close enough or not something like that. It is a brute force. Atan2 purely looks like that to me.

Maybe run of out stories that fit the criteria for mass marketing.

Are you sure?

I thought DEI is making a movie for everyone with one representative from each major ethnic group and then saying only safe non-cultural things. Oh and then localizing for china.

They want to not care but they do. I’ll know when I stop seeing guys in Czech Republic talking about Idaho politics.

> The cultural relevance of movies, and American made movies isn't going anywhere

It already has. People under 20 do not have the connection to movies. They don’t have a share experience around it - maybe picking up a handful of family movies and the occasional marvel or spiderman.

It’s a bad analogy because the benefits of industrial machines were predictable processes done efficiently.

That came later than the beginning. Workhouses came before the loom. You can see this in the progression of quality of things like dinner plates over time.

Making clay pottery can be simple. But to make “fine china” with increasingly sophisticated ornamentation and strength became more complex over time. Now you can go to ikea and buy plates that would be considered expensive luxuries hundreds of years ago.

Yeah... nah. As others have said, your analogy does not hold up to scrutiny.

You’re not addressing any points I made.

I’m an AI skeptic and in no sense is it taking my peers job. But it does save me time. I can do research much better than Google, explore a code base, spit out helper functions, and review for obvious mistakes.

Yep. And the more time I spend with the agents the more I’m convinced that your way is the endgame.

So what do you mean with being a sceptic? I thought you meant you weren't convinced of it's usefulness, and therefore don't use it. But you do seem to use it, so what is it you're sceptible about?

I’m skeptical that it’s very smart, that it can solve hard problems, and that it’s accelerating.

I’m skeptical vibe coding is really viable or saves you time.

Ok, so what are you actually using it for?

Oh sorry, I see in your original post you use it for research, codebase exploration, and small coding tasks.

I think you hit the nail on the head with that AI is ultimately not smart, it'll be dependent on humans for a long time, and we have to review their work, so they won't easily replace us.

In that sense I'm also sceptical; the idea that AI can soon replace us.

But I'm not sceptical about the power of AI as a tool for humans. I'm actually quite convinced by that by now. Hence my confusion of your remark. But I think we understand the misunderstanding now.