I think we have to do both. Bans/restrictions to prevent immediate harms (or at least attempt to), and regulation to prevent future harms.

I’m surprised they ran this, and left the YouTube comments open. I’ll take what I can get.

I kinda agree with this, except the machine learning field should bear some responsibility for begetting LLMs. In particular, they got very used to the idea of scraping the internet for huge amounts of data needed for all types of models, and paid less and less attention to how much energy their training and inference was costing versus the value the models were providing. The seeds of the problems with LLMs existed before they landed on the scene.

In case you didn’t hear, Bun was acquired by Anthropic.

If the Zig community carves out a territory of principled engineering like this, I may adopt it as my primary language and make a career out of it. Finally an island of sanity in a sea of slop.

I appreciate you saying that. It’s all good.

No wonder so many of them turn to crime.

I agreed with you until this point. What percentage of them “turn to crime”? Is that percentage higher than non-immigrants? My guess is that it’s a negligible fraction.

This was one of the key points in the video. Their source is a TD Economics report, which in turn references a report from The Institute for Canadian Citizensihp:

The Institute for Canadian Citizenship’s Leaky Bucket 2025 report shows that onward migration is highest among immigrants with doctoral degrees, strong earnings potential, and experience in management, ICT, engineering, and science based occupations. Within five years of entering Canada, highly educated immigrants are more than twice as likely to leave as lower skilled immigrants.

https://economics.td.com/ca-silent-brain-drain

Awesome, thanks very much. If you get in trouble, you can pin it on me :)

Hi TootSweet. Hope your health has improved. Any chance you could still un-pin these old posts? As you said, I think it just needs a mod to take action, instead of waiting for consensus.

Thanks for letting us know, and for your steady maintenance. I’m really happy with how fast and stable lemmy.ca has been for many months.

Thanks for sharing this

Oof, they’re going to be in a whole lot of pain after the burst. Hopefully they can reverse course mid-way.

Genuinely considering a trip to Winnipeg to see the exhibit and support this museum. I hope other people do to and that it stays up for a long time. In fact, I’m going to donate to the museum right now.

From another article:

Charles Levkoe, a member of the Jewish Faculty Network, an advocacy group made up of Jewish academics and scholars, called the controversy surrounding the exhibition ironic, given that it hadn’t yet opened to the public ahead of the protest.

Levkoe said one of his fellow members was part of the consultations for the exhibition and provided regular updates to the group.

“As Jews, as members of the people that have experienced lots of discrimination and persecution over the centuries … I think as a group we collectively were very excited about it, because we know how important it is for people who’ve been marginalized to tell their stories and have their perspectives heard,” Levkoe said.

The story of the Nakba is not often told because of its controversy, but Levkoe did not expect the exhibition to be the subject of such backlash.

“It’s like this knee-jerk reaction to just try to shut this thing down without even saying, ‘Well, let’s give it a chance, let’s see it first,’” he said.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/06/26/protesters-denounce-controversial-exhibition-at-rights-museum

I think it’s important for progressives to support this kind of signal in the conservative party, because the alternative is regressive back-sliding into bigotry. If we can reinforce a baseline of acceptance in Canada, that’s always going to be a good thing, because it means that we can reach even higher as progressives.

I would have been happy about this, since I generally support nuclear over the fossil fuel alternative, but I fear they’re only doing this to satisfy the AI data centre craze. Though I suppose when the bubble pops, we’ll be left with cheap abundant energy. The question then becomes; how much damage will data centres do before the pop.

Bernie has good intentions, but he was AI-pilled by Geoffrey Hinton, who ironically also has good intentions. However, they are both out of touch with reality.

Companies are only shooting themselves in the foot in the long term if they stop hiring junior engineers, and most of that work is not being replaced, it’s being shifted to the senior engineers who now have to babysit AIs that can’t actually do the job for any extended period of time. If you’re accepting AI code into a codebase without thorough review, then you’re also shooting yourself in the foot in the long term, because even the senior engineers won’t know the codebase after a while. If you’re doing thorough reviews in order to catch the AI bugs, well then you’re probably better off coding it yourself correctly in the first place, unless you’ve already allowed your skills to atrophy.

Do you really think AIs are reasoning when you ask them to troubleshoot technical issues? You may be lucky if the issue is already in their training data, but anything even slightly novel, and the AI is just going to bullshit an answer, and I guess you’re going to follow it blindly, since you don’t know enough to come up with an answer yourself.

Besides all that, how is open source AI going to stop junior developers from losing their jobs?

The word “intelligence” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. LLMs lack any mechanism for true logical reasoning, and they always will by nature. This is why they fail at simple questions like “the car wash test”. It’s also why agents are expensive; They just flail around in token hungry “reasoning loops” until they happen to come across a correct solution. And it’s why Claude Opus 4.8 (High) only scores 1.5% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark at a cost of $10,000.

This kind of panic is just part of the hype. Wake me up when real intelligence arrives.

I like Ed, but not a fan of this style of teasing. Reminds me of conspiracy theory communities. We’ll see what he has I guess.