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miyojitoday at 2:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

This response is incredibly annoying and insufferable. It's only "impossible" at this point because people continually ignored skeptics and anyone warning about exactly these outcomes.

Now that doom is here, it's too late to do anything about it. Just accept the doom!


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dale_glasstoday at 3:04 PM

The critics didn't do themselves any favors. Part think the Terminator has something useful to say on the subject, part invent contrived scenarios like self-driving cars having to resolve trolley problems. Reality turned out to be much more boring.

But yes, what you said but unironically. Like it or not it's here, it's not going away, so all the remaining options have to assume that.

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empath75today at 3:33 PM

> Now that doom is here, it's too late to do anything about it. Just accept the doom!

What doom? This is a mildly annoying problem that will likely be self correcting long term.

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ToucanLoucantoday at 3:40 PM

My only objection is calling it doom. It isn't and calling it that gives this stupid shit used by low-effort people far, far too much credit. It's just slop.

But it does suck, you know? Part of what makes OSS so great is that anyone could contribute. If someone uses a thing, and finds something broken or a way to make it better, they could do that and then push it back up to the project and ideally have it merged so everyone can use it. That's what makes it awesome. The project benefits, the maintainer benefits, the coder benefits, the users benefit.

Now we have to stop that because lazy people can't stop shitting it up with generated PRs and trying to get money for not fucking doing anything.

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