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- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 2 hours ago:
But now coding agents with skills can easily read and understand specs, create testsuites, etc.
What “skills”?
If they had the “skills” to do the basic functions of their jobs, they wouldn’t need “skills” in reference to AI…
Which means when the AI inevitably fucks up, the only way they can fix it is by asking the AI to fix it repeatedly and hope it works…
These are right now revolutionizing my team’s work.
Sounds like your “team” should spend less on AI and more on qualified employees.
Or do you all use free chatbots?
- Comment on Hatred for new accounts on Lemmy is related to people's inability to debate the merit of a post on its own so they engage in ad hominem and strawmen fallacies to weaponize their weak arguments. 1 day ago:
No, it’s because if someone makes an account for just one post, they’re most likely trolling, banned from the community on their main account, or just have such consistently terrible takes that they always get heavily down oted and they care too much what people on social media think.
If you stick to the same account and keep posting, people will block you, which gradually increases the amount of people who see your post and agree with it.
If you keep making new accounts to complain about shit, the same people are going to keep down oting you, because they can’t block you.
It’s really not complicated, but a very very small amount of people just can never understand it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s wild people think:
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Our nukes matter to aliens
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Aliens would just ignore an actual threat
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Aliens would ignore a planet that will eventually be a threat but isn’t one yet
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The few centuries we’ve been noticable is enough time to feel confident no one is out there.
And still think they know more than anyone else and need to comment on it…
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- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 1 day ago:
He is deeply and intimately familiar with the technical and social structures of the modern internet, his analysis of various phenomena and trends is usually on-point and has some predictive power
If you think he predicts anything, you’re streets behind
Most importantly he offers solutions to the issues facing us
He repeats what anyone could find in a five minute Google search from articles written by others.
I’ve never seen an original thought, he’s the Carlos Mencia of tech.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 day ago:
The point the fedicerse is at right now would be refered to as the “golden age” if the fediverse ever takes off.
That doesn’t mean it will take off, and that doesn’t mean it would be better or worse if it takes off later.
Enjoy it for what it is, but if you want to recruit people to it…
Your time would be best doing that, and this is the worst place to do it.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 day ago:
is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based?
Man…
In a weird way, yeah, but only because the process of critical thinking is now being described as “vibes”…
Like, even when people can tell at a glance, it’s still critical thinking, it’s just been done so much that your brain autopilots it for you.
Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas
That costs a non zero amount of money, and there isn’t a big enough audience here to justify it.
What I have seen, is people who will copy/paste a chatbot, but because they’re having to use actual credits, if you keep them going a couple comments the actual human will reply.
But those are very few, and doing personal agendas. Not a shadowy organization spinning a narrative. The ones doing it here, have just been banned from every where else for doing it already
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 days ago:
There is value in this being documented, otherwise the person without “common sense” may be influenced by someone with an agenda who does document their thoughts.
Oh yeah, because no one has “documented” that AI is bullshit yet…
Only the brave Cory Doctrow could gather and disseminate this to the masses!
/s
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 days ago:
Saying common sense stuff before others
Yeah bro…
No one else has point out AI will fail before 1/18/26…
On the great Cory Doctrine could identify something that no other human has ever even contemplated.
I heard next, he’s going to release a blog post that Nazis might not be nice people
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 days ago:
This man has really built a career and following off saying common sense things…
I don’t know why people keep eating it up or acting like he’s a genius, but at least this time he isn’t coining a new term to “explain” something that leads to everyone using it but not understanding what’s actually happening.
- Comment on The Minnesota National Guard is attempting to recruit high school kids by insinuating their parents might be deported if they don't sign up 2 days ago:
Same source says 110k non-citizen veterans, so not all get it.
Like I said, the process often takes longer than a single four year enlistment. They may have legal right to stay here, but not full citizen. And would just rather get out and become a citizen another way.
The military kind of sucks bro…
- Comment on The Minnesota National Guard is attempting to recruit high school kids by insinuating their parents might be deported if they don't sign up 3 days ago:
Not even that, just too on the nose.
But a lot of people do join up for citizenship, the shitty part is it gets slow-walked so people end up needing to re-enlist at least once before they can gain citizenship.
It’s one of these weird quirks of today, like, if trump ever does deploy the military to do what ICE is doing, it’s going to be non-citizens detaining US citizens…
I served with people whose only citizenship was Nigeria, Ghana, and a lot of the Caribbean countries, but I think they’re pretty lax on what countries can join. A guy in my boot camp was a Russian ex-cop who was in his late 30s and barely spoke English, I’m pretty sure he didn’t even live in the US before boot camp.
I was curious and looked it up, right now 40k US military members are not citizens:
www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48163
So about 2% of the US military, not huge, but not zero either.
- Comment on The Minnesota National Guard is attempting to recruit high school kids by insinuating their parents might be deported if they don't sign up 3 days ago:
I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.
That being said, recruiters are all pieces of shit, because if they’re not then they’re going to get taken off recruiter duty which is the cushiest posting in a lot of branches. So they do what they have to do to make their recruitment quotas.
So it’s possible some idiot really tried this, but no one should believe anything a recruiter says.
- Comment on In just 15 years, the average U.S. homebuyer went from 39 to 59 years old: Top analyst reveals how the housing market has warped in one generation 4 days ago:
It’s cold out here…
And the games being played ain’t fun
Landlord just raised your rent…
Better get yourself a gun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlKGEp0_x4
GYAG - Bob Vylan
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 5 days ago:
It’s like someone had doubts people could count much past 12
More like the people who invented a lot of shit used base 12.
Things stopping in base 12, is because the thing is so old, it predates base 10.
Like, pick a language, count to thirteen:
Ein, zwei, drei, fire, funf, sechs, seben, acht, neun, zein, elf, zwolf, dreizein…
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen…
Notice how 11 and 12 aren’t one-teen and two-teen?
On each hand is 4 sets of 3 knuckles, touch your thumb to each knuckle and your finger counting on one hand higher than we can with two. Pretty sure there’s some pretty neat math tricks with their method too, almost like built in abacus.
But all this is off memory.
- Comment on There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddles 1 week ago:
Eh, the terracotta emporer from China almost definitely has booby traps that are likely still functional after 2,000.
We don’t know, because the absolutely insane amount of open mercury in the tomb would have filled it with toxic gases, although it’s likely that wasn’t the intent.
But yeah, most “ancient” tombs were pillaged centuries ago. What little happens now is entirely black market and people probably die all the time.
I know Kim Kardashian took a booty selfie with a sarcophagus at the MET Gala a couple years ago, and one of the illegal tomb raiders recognized it. And because he never got his cut, he snitched to local authorities
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Clémence Guetté, Vice President of France’s National Assembly, submitted a parliamentary resolution calling for France to withdraw from NATO’s integrated command structure, citing President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark as evidence the US-led alliance threatens world peace.
So one politician from France submitted a resolution in the French gverbment to do it.
And you…
You honestly and legitimately think that is the same thing as:
I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans
Like, you didn’t just go and try to find a source but didn’t read it. You just don’t understand how what that says and what you said are vastly different things?
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
I saw France had proposed an initiative to withdraw because of the US’ shenanigans…
Where?
France is leading NATO air and ground troops this year, and I didn’t see anything about France leaving NATO when I just checked.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s the same person.
They make two types of accounts:
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A man that got “sympathy pregnant” and their stomach won’t stop growing and it’s going to burst
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Very petite (and barely of acceptable age) girl who somehow attacks much larger men’s bellies.
There’s nothing wrong with the fetish, it’s the nonconsensual aspect of repeatedly trying to trick people into participating instead of seeking out consensual roleplay spaces.
That’s the fucked up part.
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- Comment on Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has legally "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And they're lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover. 1 week ago:
were just black and publicly carried guns for self-defense.
Uhh…
en.wikipedia.org/…/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organizatio…
They were pretty much a cult and their leader who made their rules was illeterate…
The bombing was a huge overstep, but this was closer to WACO than what you’re making it out to be.
Except WACO had the legal right to be there, and you’re also pretending a giant shootout with the cops didn’t happen a few years earlier.
This shit is important, now more than ever. We need to understand what really happened so we learn from it. Not spread romanticized and simplified folk tales.
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 1 week ago:
Well, that explains the post I saw earlier about how they turned off image generation…
Every sane co.pany needs to ban it for more reasons than just this.
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 1 week ago:
Would he lie to you?
- Comment on Who and What comprise AI Skepticism? 1 week ago:
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Humans
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Understanding what modern “ai” is
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- Comment on Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X 1 week ago:
It all starts with a little bill call the Telecommunications act of 1996…
And yeah, loads of people said it would lead to this shit.
But Silicon valley gave a shit ton of money to the Clinton’s for the Internet part, and telecoms for the part doing away with monopoly regulations.
- Comment on xkcd #3191: Superstition 1 week ago:
It’s because we’re just pattern recognition machines and a false positive is better than a false negative.
So if an act might result in a positive or avoid a negative, it’s safer to just do it anyways. Giving people who get neurotic about it enough of an evolutionary advantage that it’s still relatively normal human variation.
Maybe the environment changes to where that OCD behavior is really advantageous, then the rabbit rabbits will inherit the earth.
- Comment on Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X 1 week ago:
The solution is simple: Everyone everywhere needs to classify Xitter as a porn site
I think a large part of it’s popularity has become the porn, because it passes all those filters. Especially since Musk backed conservatives are blocking porn in red states, but as far as I know, never twitter.
Treat it like a porn site and lots of Republicans need to give up their ID to show they’re old enough. They can’t come around it because social media hates VPN
- Comment on Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X 1 week ago:
But that doesn’t leave many options for the victims. Maddie, who said she’s a 23-year-old pre-med student, woke up on New Year’s Day to an image that horrified her. On X, she had previously published a picture of herself with her boyfriend at a local bar, which two strangers altered using Grok.
I’ve thought a lot of things would kill twitter…
But if every time a woman posts a picture of herself, and neckbeards reply asking twitter AI to sexualize her, and the AI responds right there with it where everyone following the original account can see…
I truly don’t understand how or why any women are still using it.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 1 week ago:
Still, on the long list of shit we need to fix with America, fixing the patent system is a big one.
Large corps buy them like lotto tickets and try to patent anything and everything they can.
Look how long WB has sat on the Nemisis system because they got a patent a decade ago on it. It wasn’t really a unique idea, but thousands of games have been prevented from doing anything similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How could you think this would be a better way to find out than just asking her what she meant?
Also, weird as fuck to be throwing yourself in drama like that, but as least your friend will find out your super messy if they haven’t. If they already knew, this is what they signed up for anyways
- Comment on How do i stop the android system from using all my free space? 2 weeks ago:
Now tell me how to stop it.
I already did, you just didn’t understand and got upset, why would you think I’d try again?
You do realize you’re asking people for help, not calling into T-Mobile customer support, right?
- Comment on How do i stop the android system from using all my free space? 2 weeks ago:
Most likely you don’t have enough space on your phone…
Delete all your cache, then turn the size for it down as low as possible.
But you’ll most likely still need to delete something else to give the operating system some breathing room.
You can’t just get your phone to slightly below limit and then use it. Everything on there is going to cache data. You need to leave some headroom, so delete some apps or media after you lower the caches.