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.cc and .hh feels the most serious.

I was generalizing. There is a difference between calling a specific corporation fascist and calling the system that that corporation lives in fascist. Which also doesn’t mean that that corporation is not fascist.

And yeah I will actually go out of my way to call Facebook and Reddit fascist (I don’t know about substack, but it’s more likely than not), because they (to at least some degree ideologically and definitely monetarily) support those systems. But it’s not just that, the interests of capitalism today align (at least in the economic sense) extremely closely with those of fascism.

Yeah, if you can write modern C++, than Rust is going to feel much more natural and easy.

Fascism and capitalism go hand in hand (in our age at least). Someone supporting capitalism is so likely to imply fascist views that it's basically impossible to find someone who's genuinely going to say capitalism is a good thing AND I don't have a problem with immigration and I want all human beings to be equal & free regardless of gender, skin color, etc.

TLDR: capitalism is fascism. fascism is capitalism. it's the same thing. at least today. maybe not in yesterday, and hopefully not tomorrow.

It's not just about technical problems, it's much much more. It's ads everywhere, AI everywhere, no privacy everywhere, it's like literally intruding your computer. They are trying to own your computer. If that isn't a problem for you, I have to sadly tell you: you have a problem.

That’s true. I have a MacBook as well (M1, gift from a couple of years ago) and I don’t use it. Okay it’s fast, but what I do on a laptop doesn’t need that power at all. Battery life is very valid (which is a problem with my old ThinkPad), but with Framework catching up, it’s less of an argument in the future.

And I honestly don’t feel much of a difference when using my MacBook compared to my ThinkPad in terms of performance (and my ThinkPad has 2 cores and 4 threads mind you), but I mostly just browse and do C programming (I know that there is a massive difference in power, I just don’t need it in day to day use). For everything that needs a lot power I use my desktop computer.

In the end it just comes down to priorities I suppose. For me personally, privacy has become one of the most important concerns because I think it’s fucked up how much companies are allowed to know about us individually, and I don’t want them to keep getting information about me.

No battery life, no ARM processor, no retina display, no broken glass design and no other gimmick I don’t really need can justify what they are doing, at least in my opinion. I‘d rather need to inconveniently charge my laptop every 2 hours because the battery is dead then to have some company know more about myself then I do.

By definition, that in itself isn’t gatekeeping. And I personally wouldn’t feel gatekept, just excluded. In the article the author evaluates the usefulness of AI for a field which they admit to have no clue about. And it reads like that AI gives you the knowledge of that field, just 3 seconds away, and everyone is obsolete now, which isn’t true. While it can give you the knowledge, you still need the understanding, and understanding is what makes people good at something, not knowledge in itself. I don’t understand your argument. The situation you described is not what I‘ve been talking about.

1. It‘s not about making friends
2. It‘s about factual discussions
3. It‘s about people trying to contribute to those discussions with arguments they can’t reason about, which normally isn’t particularly helpful, and if someone acts like a knowledgeable dick, then I don’t feel bad excluding them at all

You have it plain sight. Refusing to engage with someone is not gatekeeping. Your definition pretty much aligns with what I said.

And if someone doesn’t have any idea what they’re talking about, then maybe they shouldn’t take part in the talking. You can’t tell me that you‘ll take cybersecurity advice from someone who saw a movie about hacking.

Which doesn’t mean that clueless people have nothing of value to add, but it’s unlikely (especially in highly factual discussions).

No one can tell whether AGI in the form of something akin to biological brains will happen. How will we build something we can't comprehend the architecture of?

Also, I think their point was not that AGI will never happen, it's more that it doesn't matter whether it happens or not, because AI/AGI will not solve our problems (well, it will solve some, but create so many more that in the end we've really achieved nothing).

I think we are further from AGI than people think. I doubt I will live to see it.

That's not gatekeeping, but okay. Gatekeeping is about withholding knowledge & information from a group of people for a personal benefit. It's not gatekeeping to stop every clueless idiot from blurting out their opinion and expecting everyone to respect it, because otherwise you're a gatekeeper (I don't want to imply the author of the article is a clueless idiot, this is a generalized statement).

I honestly don't understand what people even like about Apple. They aren't privacy focused at all. They still collect a lot of personalized data about you. And even if it's not as much as google, still doesn't make it good, just makes it less bad. And they store it securely somewhere on a "trust me bro" basis, promising to not tell anyone else.

Apart from that: Apple is trying everything to avoid you realizing that you're using a computer. Personally, I find IT experts using apple computers to be contradictory of some sorts, because of apple's attempt at hiding the actual computer from you.

I understand that having a 1kg metal frame in front of you feels great & premium, but that can't seriously be one of the major selling points...

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