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- Comment on The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also Pentagons 2 days ago:
You might never see the sun again!
- Comment on China invites European countries to form united front against Trump tariffs 5 days 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
—Elevate—
- Comment on More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 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? 2 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*? 2 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? 2 months ago:
No, they have been discussing it. They wont make any announcement until after German elections.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 2 months ago:
Im pretty sure most of us already have to work our whole lives or starve.
- Comment on The Generative AI Con. 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
It seems like a pretty good reason to exclude them, considering the criticism being discuss was specifically that they would inevitably decay in to a “might makes right” situation. Communities existing in a situation where police and courts would prevent someone from taking over by force disqualifies them from disproving this hypothesis.
- Comment on What do you think of anarchism? 2 months ago:
Which ones? There are few places on Earth that are not under practical control of a formal government and legal system, and most of those places are either unpopulated or controlled by various local power brokers.
- Comment on Solar should be packaged with consumer appliances 2 months ago:
That works for a phone or a laptop when the manufacturer expects you to upgrade every few years. An average house might have dozens of different items, each with its own battery with different size, capacity and discharge needs. Its already hard to track down replacement batteries for older model phones and laptops, and its going to be ten times worse trying to find just the right battery for your specific model of printer or coffee machine years after its left production. Are appliances just supposed to be disposable now, or is it just a gimmick for the first couple of years you own something? In either case, it doesnt seem like the savings to the power grid could possibly justify the expense or the waste.