Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@w7voa Let me guess. It was one of the same ones that claimed January 6th was just a bunch of tourists?

@adamgurri @Jonathanglick @TedUnderwood @brendannyhan As a software engineer who has fully incorporated AI into my workflow, I can speak to that:

Maybe it will change in the future, but for now, the AI's inability to reason holds it back. It's great at certain smaller self-contained tasks (especially visual scaffolding and formulaic code) that are typically the domain of low-level coders, but the high-level architecture of major programs, connecting the pieces, and overall flow (things like UX), are still very much in the realm of humans.

I do ultimately think AI will automate away some programming jobs, similar to how WordPress shifted some jobs from developers to marketers, but like most machines in an expressive medium, it's much better at quantity than quality.

That said, however, the AI has a far different function that people may not expect: It's great at teaching and reinforcing patterns to human programmers. That could be huge down the line. But right now, the patterns it teaches are... let's say, not always the greatest (because of what it was trained on). So you still need someone experienced to parse out the good from the bad. For inexperienced programmers, AI could just as easily reinforce bad habits as good.

@evanpeterjones Both sides are huge hypocrites on this one. If your reasoning changes based on your desired outcome, you're not actually reasoning at all.

I've come to expect that from the GOP, but that liberals do the same thing with no self-awareness drives me up a wall.

@evanpeterjones Yes, it is. That was my point. The GOP has taken the expansionist position on 2A.

@evanpeterjones They aren't in the constitution. That's the point. American liberals want 14A to protect them as if they were.

Which is a good thing! But my OP was about them using expansionism to protect personal liberties like marriage and abortion while simultaneously using originalism to strip away personal liberties for guns. The hypocrisy undercuts both arguments.

@evanpeterjones I didn't forget. Those amendments did some of the heavy lifting, but not all of it.

For example, it took a fairly expansive interpretation of a combination of 14&15A to enforce the Voting Rights Act for 40 years to prevent voter disenfranchisement on racial lines (until it was killed by SCOTUS in 2013).

To be fair though, maybe "marriage and abortion rights" would have been better and more timely examples to make my point than "slavery and voting rights".