People have been going nuts all throughout recorded history, that's really nothing new.
The only scary thing is that they have ever more power to change the world and influence others without being forced to grapple with that responsibility...
Also a lot of errors would be called "typos", not errors. Such as some edge cases missing in the theorem statement which technically makes the theorem false. As long as there's a similar theorem in the same spirit that can be proven, that's what the original was all along.
Have you ever read the (full) text of any bill that has been passed during the last couple of decades? How about reading all of them?
So are you proposing people vote on them without reading them? Or that we write very short bills aimed at a non-lawyer audience, effectively leaving most decisions up to the interpretation by courts? Or something else?
It’s pretty dang simple today. If you’re a usual W-2 employee, anyone who can read and follow simple instructions can file without paying any preparer a dime.
In Sweden and Denmark the tax service prepares a tax statement for you. In Sweden, if everything looks OK, you press a button. In Denmark, if everything looks OK, you don't even have to press a button.
But note that for Denmark, it's only correct by default in simple employment cases without notable investment, retirement, transport/house/mortgage related deductibles, etc.
And it's not at all simple once you have to actually check or change details. It's so complicated that the online UI will only show you a fraction of the available fields by default, and they often reset year-by-year, or get weird values. And then there's the whole real estate taxation scandal...
And more importantly than fixing the statement, you have to actually understand the whole taxation situation to make financial decisions throughout the year. How a mortgage partially interacts with capital gains taxation, dividend and income interact with progressive taxation, how your different investments are spread across a number of different taxation types and intervals, how your spouse's tax situation affects yours, etc. etc.
If you don't pay attention to that, you'll end up missing out on the deductibles the politicians promised you but intentionally handicapped to death by making it yet another obscure tax exception stacking on top of the rest. >:(
I'd gladly pay a bit more tax if I could just get it to be ONE flippin' rate.
I assume it is the same in Hungary, it definitely was the case a few years back, so I assume the same system is in place. It might not be rolled out for everyone, however. Probably not for companies, or in complex cases.
No, Americans can still do that. You can get the forms to file your taxes from many public places (e.g. the library), and filling out a 1040 is dead easy if you are just bringing in wages from your job. The instructions are very clear and will walk you through the whole process.
I agree that we should have a government-provided e-file option in the modern age, but it is not true to say that Americans have no way to file taxes for free.
It could be way easier. Many countries send everything filled out and you just verify.
They already know all my income, my dividends, everything that is sent to the government already… why can’t they give me it all auto filled? They are pretty good at finding out if you left something off, so they could do that before hand.
Assuming they even have code reviews - in your experience, in a situation where the person writing the code didn't check if it already exists, the reviewer will check that and then tell them to delete their already finished implementation and use that existing thing?
> models deployed in critical applications such as finance, law, and healthcare.
We went really quickly from "obviously noone will ever use these models for important things" to "we will at the first opportunity, so please at least try to limit the damage by making the models better"...
Nope. The human neural network runs on about 20 watts of power. The LLM is vastly less efficient than the human version. And that's just the inference -- if you consider training it's much worse.
Sure the brain runs on low power but it requires an entire body of support systems, extensive daily downtime maintenance, about twenty five years of training, and finally requires energy input in an incredibly inefficient format.
Most musicians (i.e. non-famous ones) get most of their income from teaching students. I don't think such a model makes sense for developers
(though who knows, maybe at some time in the future there will be significant numbers of people programming as a hobby and wanting to be coached by a human...)
The only scary thing is that they have ever more power to change the world and influence others without being forced to grapple with that responsibility...