> if you assume all countries follow the same type of happiness distribution that is simply shifted/stretched lower or higher.
That's a pretty strong assumption, seems more likely that there's variation at the extremes than not. For example, if a small percentage of the population deals badly with extended nighttime in long winters, then it'll affect Finland's most-unhappy stats (and suicide rates) without meaning much for the average happiness.
Yes? "The best possible life" covers pretty much exactly these socioeconomic factors for most people. Is there any of these factors that you think is not covered by this question?
> Most people don't seem to care, which is their choice.
Most people don't have the required knowledge to make an educated decision about whether to care. In fact, most people are not even aware of the question, let alone have the knowledge, let alone caring, let alone making a choice.
> Yeah, I have a hard time believing that there’s a massive demand for AI-generated videos and images. Like, why would the news industry want to generate images and videos with AI? It’s not news. The advertising industry maybe, but even then it’s probably not your top brands that go full in on it. If you see that all of Apple’s adverts are generated with AI, it’ll probably lower your brand perception.
(disclaimer: I don't work in ad and don't know more about it than the next person)
Whether the end product (the ad) is AI-generated or not is almost irrelevant. The whole production chain will likely be AIfied: to produce one ad you need to go through many concepts, gather reference images/videos, make prototypes, iterate on all that, and probably a ton of other things that I don't know about... The final ad is 1 image/video, but there's been dozens/hundreds of other images/videos produced in this process. Whether the final ad is AI-generated or not, AI will almost certainly (for better or worse...) have a major place in the production chain.
> Better is to critique the actual PR itself. For example, needs more tests, needs to be broken up, doesn't follow our protocols for merging/docs, etc.
They did: the main point being made is "I'm not reading 13k LOCs when there's been no proposal and discussion that this is something we might want, and how we might want to have it implemented". Which is an absolutely fair point (there's no other possible answer really, unless you have days to waste) whether the code is AI-written or human-written.
Exactly, this seems a bit overlooked in this discussion. A PR like this would NOT have been okay even if there was no LLM involved.
It reminds me of a PR I once saw (don't remember which project) in which a first-time contributor opened a PR rewriting the project's entire website in their favourite new framework. The maintainers calmly replied to the effect of, before putting in the work, it might have been best to quickly check if we even want this. The contributor liked the framework so much that I'm sure they believed it was an improvement. But it's the same tone-deafness I now see in many vibe coders who don't seem to understand that OSS projects involve other people and demand some level of consensus and respect.
I am one of the maintainers of aiosmtpd [1], and the largest PR I ever made was migrating the library's tests from nosetest to pytest. Before doing that, though, I discussed with the other maintainers if such a migration is welcome. And after getting support from them, I made the changes with gusto. It took weeks, even months to complete and the PR is massive [2]
But still the crux of the matter is: Massive changes require buy-in from other maintainers BEFORE the changes even start.
That's not the point being made. Whether you're into the traditional marriage/family social schema or not (and personally I'm very much not), it's still something that most of the population wants, that society expects and relies on. The fact that it's not something achievable anymore is clearly a big problem.
I've read a lot more about "how dumb it is to use mongo over PG" than the opposite, I think the burden of proof is on the mongo-lovers these days (not that anyone has to prove anything to randos on the internet)
That's a pretty strong assumption, seems more likely that there's variation at the extremes than not. For example, if a small percentage of the population deals badly with extended nighttime in long winters, then it'll affect Finland's most-unhappy stats (and suicide rates) without meaning much for the average happiness.
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