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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ive looked into this a little bit before, and while insects have theoretical advantages, its actually really difficult to beat chickens for turning feed into protein. Beef is extremely inefficient by nature, but theres a lot of technical hurdles between us from an insect meat world.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 3 weeks ago:
At that point its just self hatred manifest.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 3 weeks ago:
How much joy and creativity do think there was in these places before?
- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 1 month ago:
You might never see the sun again!
- Comment on China invites European countries to form united front against Trump tariffs 1 month ago:
Really the most surprising thing about this whole debacle has been just how little support China has been able to rally, at least in public. I dont think they realized just how much ill will the wolf-warrior strategy had earned them over the past few decades.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 month ago:
Dont buy a project car if you dont want a project. Some people like that shit, but its not for everyone.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 month ago:
Dont use freaking Arch if your goal is to get everything to work out of the box?
- Comment on Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases? 1 month ago:
And that’s assuming that this chain of events doesnt end in a shooting war. Those are not great for people or the environment.
- Comment on They are lying to us 2 months ago:
I know, its really a shame about all those low paying STEM jobs. I remember back when I was a kid I used to tell everyone I wanted to be an engineer when I grew up, but all the moneys in literature and poetry so thats what I had to do. Damn you, capitalism!
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
That would be great, but I just don’t see it happening. The way things are going well be lucky to have a Department of Education in a few years, and public schools might be following right behind. Even if everything turns around tomorrow, all the resources in the world wont get everyone to the level you are aiming at. There are people out there who do not see any value in literacy and there are people who don’t have the brain power. You could assign full time private tutors to follow them around and try to teach them things for their whole lives and you’d barely get anywhere. That’s just something well have to live with. There’s never been a society where everyone was intellectually active, its always been a more or less influential minority. If you want to improve society the best approach making the intellectual voice more influential, not trying to educate the gleefully ignorant.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
Is that any worse than people getting their world view from a talking head on 24 news, five second video clips on their phone, or a self curated selection of rage bait propaganda online? The mental decline of humanity is perpetual and overstated.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
It sounds like you are talking about use in education then, which is a different issue altogether.
You can and should set your AI to push back against poor reasoning and unsupported claims. They arnt very smart, but they will try.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
An AI can produce content that is higher quality than the prompts they are given, particularly for formulaic tasks. I do agree that it would be nice if everyone were more educated, but a large portion of the population will never get there. If simply denying them AI was going to result in a blossoming of self education it would have already happened by now.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
I dont really think its fair to expect the barely literate to have writing endeavours. They are just trying to communicate without embarrassing themselves.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
I’m not really sure what you mean. They are not perfect, and in fact it will usually reduce the quality of output for a skilled writer, but half of the adults in the US cant read and write at a sixth grade level, and LLMs are greatly improving their ability to solidify and convey their thoughts in a more understandable way.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
—Elevate—
- Comment on More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report 2 months ago:
A bet against crippling global famine? Weve got some optimists over here.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 2 months ago:
People bad at math use calculators. People with bad handwriting prefer to type. Weak people use levers. Slow people rely more on wheels. Its like were a bunch of tool using primates or something.
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 3 months ago:
Yes, but they both only want these things as means to an end. In the long run they both have dreams of becoming imperial super powers. They can cooperate for now, but they both know its an alliance of convenience.
- Comment on Regeneration from the commerical seed bank 3 months ago:
Last time I ate Pizza Hut there was weird yellow oil leaking out of the “cheese” … less racism though, so at least thats something.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 3 months ago:
It doesnt have to be useful to you and it does not have to replace every job, it just has to show revenue and rapid growth. There are lots and lots of tasks out there were management doesnt really care if its perfect as long as its cheap and it gets done. AI will automate that stuff first, but people in rich countries probably wont notice because that sort of work was outsourced years ago. In the meantime, its all going to be about efficiency, having fewer people do the same work with AI assistance.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 3 months ago:
Thats the investor play here. They know most of the hyped companies will end up like AOL or pets.com, but you’ll also have a Google and an Amazon thrown in there which will pay for it all eventually.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 3 months ago:
Trump is generating an enormous level of security risk globally, which encourages investment money flow to the country with the biggest military. Ironically, that happens to be the US.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 3 months ago:
No, they have been discussing it. They wont make any announcement until after German elections.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 3 months ago:
Im pretty sure most of us already have to work our whole lives or starve.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 3 months ago:
It will. So has just about every other major technical development ever. Eventually those lost jobs should be replaced by even more jobs made possible by the new technology, but in the meantime it will suck.
Thats how you know its not just a gimmick. How many jobs did blockchain replace? Just about zero. How many jobs did computers or the Internet or the mechanical loom or the freaking steam engine replace? Tons.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 months ago:
They were actually really vague about the details. The paper itself says they used GPT-4o for ChatGPT, but apparently didnt even note what versions of the other models were used.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 3 months ago:
Musk isnt very good at that. He seems to Godzilla’s his way through one company at a time, while interns clean up behind him.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 3 months ago:
The number One hundred million sixty six thousand five hundred seventy three has exactly 100,066,537 letters.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 4 months ago:
I’m not sure what you want exactly. Its pretty hard to prove a negative, but that does not make the inverse true.