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Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Big “100 physicists have signed a letter saying you’re wrong, Mr. Einstein” energy.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    This one? It's a fake.

    This also assumes that TootSweet is Einstein in this scenario, rather than just some guy on the Fediverse. If he's got cred on par with Steve Yegge or Linus Torvalds the comparison might hold some weight, but I'm dubious about that.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    No. Not that one.

    There’s a story that a reporter said to Einstein “100 physicists have signed a letter saying your theory of relativity is wrong” to which Einstein replies “if they were right, it would only take one.”

    Apocryphal or not, the point remains that truth is not a democracy. If a million people say AI is great, it doesn’t make it so — even if one of those people is the primary maintainer of the the Linux kernel.

    And billions of people eat at McDonald’s, but that doesn’t make a hamburger better than a steak. Or any more ethical.

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