Isn't that Accelerando?

"No, nobody forced me to get the rewire. I could have just let them cut out my brain and pack it into Heaven, couldn't I? That's the choice we have. We can be utterly useless, or we can try and compete against the vampires and the constructs and the AIs. And perhaps you could tell me how to do that without turning into a—an utter freak."

> But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware.

A strange claim. Why do you think that?

> The future seems more like …

Oh, so Terminator failed because it didn’t match a different fictional speculation about the future?

You know that's true of most films, right? "Aging well" doesn't refer to howly closely it matched reality.

What do you mean? The cgi is great, even today. They obviously put a lot of work and effort into it

Careful! Some of the scenes you would think as CGI are actually using practical effects. Even a couple of scenes with liquid metal on screen were using models.

The ILM documentary on Disney+ talks about the techniques on that movie, super interesting documentary in general.

That CGI looks quite OK, and even surpasses much of "modern" CGI. Have you ever seen "Flash"?

This is considering the effects were done in 1990.

Edit: a lot of what people think is CGI in T2 is actually NOT.

https://www.facebook.com/StanWinstonSchool/videos/bullet-hit...

Works in Spain though, so maybe depends on country. Romania is frequently blocked for example, even if Spain isn't.

I could load it with Tor Browser

Out of curiousity, can you share a human invention that is not merely scaling things that were decades or centuries old at the time?

Fire? The wheel? Archimedes screw, maaaaybe?

> Yes there is still human input but it requires comparatively no skill or depth and it gets easier by the month. If I were lobotimized today I'd still be able to function as half-assed architect to AIs anyway.

Hard doubt, software engineering is so much more than just literal coding and typing. At least for many of us, the coding/typing part is the easy stuff, everything around that is where the actual engineering happens. If I were lobotomized, maybe I'd get ~10% done today as the day before, if I'm lucky. Even with my full mental capabilities, the agents end up on wild goose-chases unless I'm very specific with what I want, and even sometimes ignoring things if they're too complicated/takes too long, so a bit of thinking is still required to get the right prompts.

And considering how subjective programming is, since it's a creative endeavour after all, I'm not that worried somehow all programmers will be unemployed in just some years.

> When was the last time

Frequency of something doesn't tell you how big of an issue something is, for all we know, HN community (or even the moderators) could have been tired of all the circular conversations where nothing new is being said, and downvote it. Doesn't really tell us much.

But it's not like "shoving the logs into CNC machines". You have to understand what they are doing and point them into the right direction. LLMs very often lack common sense once you move out of easy things.

Spanish:

- "ha" sound -> J

- silent -> H, sometimes LL

- "yu" sound -> LL

- "v" sound -> B

La Jolla -> "Lah Hoya" (English phonetic).

Vallejo -> "Baiyeho" (phonetic), though the north-bay California town is often pronounced "Valayho" by locals. "Vallay-joe" is a sure sign of a non-native.

I have it on good authority that mail addressed to "La Hoya, CA" will in fact reach its intended destination.

The H is silent in Austrian-Spanish.