> but this is much more to do with Microsoft very publically firing the QA department[0][1] as a cost savings measure and claiming developers will do their own QA (long before LLMs were on the scene). It started in 2014 and the trickle never stopped.

We know this was the correct move because Microsoft's stock price has gone up tremendously since 2014, those in the c-suite received massive bonuses and the worlds most efficient system for resource allocation has deemed it so.

Fortunately my Amazon branded subcutaneous chip still works at Wholefoods.

> My understanding is there was a bug that let you wipe and re-enable a phone that had been disabled due to theft. This prevents a downgrade attack.

This makes sense and much less dystopia than some of the other commenters are suggesting.

That's even more dystopian.

> I can’t afford healthcare or electricity, and ICE just abducted my neighbor. But at least I no longer have to see plaques that mention slavery when I visit national landmarks.

> how little shame people apparently have

You can expand this sentiment to everyday life. The things some people are willing to say and do in public is a never ending supply of surprising.

is America great again yet?

Hottest country in the world! Tremendous respect!

no all caps? I sense a lack of patriotism

There goes your social score.

Trump is making China great again

Thank you for this example. I'm going to keep it in mind the next time I asked myself if there are too many elements or not.

It wasn't that long ago I got down voted on HN for saying this was going to happen.

As a general rule of thumb in sites like Reddit and HN - the quality of votes is significantly lower than the quality of comments. This is because it takes much more effort to comment, so there is a selection bias.

I'm not convinced that downvotes add much value. They should be a "this is irrelevant/spam" button but in practice they seem to be used as a "dislike" button to enforce groupthink.

Slashdot moderation and something going by having people tag comments as Insightful, Interesting, Offtopic or flamebait. It assigned positive or negative points based on that.

The two problems were the horrible UI and that at some points evaluators used te negative tags just to punish views they didn't agree with.

But maybe an AI evaluator would be less biased?

Yeah… I don’t understand how anyone could look at the prevalence of advertising and affiliate links on the internet and believe they would for some reason stay away from the LLM products.

Sure Sam Altman and his $200/mo subscribers won’t see them, but it was clear they were coming for free users.

>$200/mo subscribers won’t see them

Yet. Amazon Prime has ads despite it being a paid service.

Voting can be for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes I downvote things like that because I want to bury bait that would send an argument into a well-trodden and boring direction.

Let the reader decide? I - incredibly rarely - downvote. It's either vote up, or move along.

You're strategy is good. I'm a bit jaded. I try to make up for it with upvotes and clarifying comments... Seems like I often run into people arguing over a misunderstanding.

"You are strategy is good." And I missed the edit window, oof.

Is anyone else old enough to remember when D&D and rock music was supposedly ruining the lives of young people and causing them to worship Satan?

TBH cigarettes were chemically designed to cause addiction, most music stars smoked cigarettes, then kids did follow them and also smoked. Will not even mention alcohol.

> when D&D and rock music was supposedly ruining the lives of young people and causing them to worship Satan?

And then the evidence didn’t pan out. Social media and device use looks like cigarettes the more we study them.

Neither were algorithmically designed to cause addiction.

Then why are "earworm" songs so hard to get out of my brain? Listening to Kpop demon hunters sure does feel like an addiction.