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- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 5 hours ago:
The worst aspect of the C64 was that the hardware was a mostly undocumented mystery zone.
This is simply false. The C64 was the most open computer at the time, everything was open, including how you programmed the special hardware directly. Even the included documentation was pretty good to get started, and included examples on how to program audio.
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 7 hours ago:
That would be somewhat OK if people could figure out to vote for taxing companies, high income and wealth.
And the redistribute so nobody goes hungry and has health care.But as it is, wealth is accumulating more for the top 10% than ever.
All the advantages are given to the rich, the idea of leveling the playing field is passé. - Comment on AI may soon make Nobel-level discovery, scientists predict 2 days ago:
“eventually” is a cheap cop out. Because I have no doubt AI will eventually surpass us, it’s simply the nature of the speed of development of technology over evolution. But we are not there yet.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
No it was a single case of reparation for damages of some sort. Where the company wouldn’t honor the deal, but lost the case in court.
But thanks for finding a concrete example of how AI makes stupid mistakes, this Airline case looks like the bot suffered from the infamous hallucinations they are prone to.
And it’s absolutely disgusting that the airline won’t honor it, and instead make all sorts of claims about how when and where the complaint needs to be filed.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that even consumer services is an area where I saw a computer made an expensive mistake, promising the customer something very expensive, and a court decided the company had to honor the agreement the AI made. But I can’t find the story, because I’m flooded with product placement articles about how wonderful AI is at saving cost in CS.
But yes CS is absolutely an area where AI is massively pushed. - Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 2 days ago:
That sounds like privacy
Oh boy you are naive if you think that’s the result of no regulation.
The real result will be monetization, selling the info to everyone who wants to buy including governments. - Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 2 days ago:
Refunding is far from enough, there should be a fine of at least twice that for fraudulent work.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
And over the next 50 years it will take 485 million jobs, and the unemployment rate will be 235%.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
I like you optimism that it won’t be worse than that. 😋
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
LOL Maybe AI will be the next big job creator. The AI solves a task super fast, but a human has to sort out the mistakes, and spend twice the time doing that, than it would have taken to just do it yourself.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
I think the fad will die down a bit, when companies figure out that AI makes very expensive mistakes that the company has to compensate, and saying it was the AI is not a valid cop out.
I foresee companies will go bankrupt on that account. - Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 2 days ago:
Thank god, good that we paid bonuses to make that report. Well done folks, here’s an extra bonus for good result.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 2 days ago:
The US economy is close to recession, and the job market is affected by that. I find it very plausible that AI hasn’t had the results we often hear, about increasing efficiency and replacing workers. Those stories are hyped, and probably also pushed by marketing people in the AI industry.
AI is mostly used to aid workers, and I suspect the efficiency boost isn’t nearly as impressive as is often claimed in media. - Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 days ago:
OK, that only confirms to me that he was in fact insane. There is no way we are supposed to eat only fruit, it simply doesn’t provide any real energy, but consumes as much as it yields, meaning there is no way to survive on fruit alone.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 days ago:
So where’s does he claim to only eat fruit?
Are you confusing it with him recommending to use Apple? - Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 days ago:
You made 2 false claims, and now you say you don’t actually know what you are talking about.
Yes, I kind of figured that out already. - Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 days ago:
If lembot_0004 is a bot, it is in fact a shitty bot as was commented, that gives clearly false information.
It was clearly an error in judgement by the moderator to remove the above post.
Please restore! - Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 days ago:
Fructose is the element in sugar that actually taste sweet, it is also the part that is unhealthy. it acts somewhat like alcohol.
Giving similar problems and can also cause dependency. - Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 1 week ago:
Average disregarding race or culture.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Your question seems mostly nonsensical, we are not “house trained”, and what do you mean by “rather than controlled”?
Is your question based on biblical or another form of faith?But in short regarding our social behavior, the principle of it is not very different from social behaviors of other animals like dogs or chimpanzees. We “behave” because we are social animals and it’s in our DNA to work for the benefit of the the group.
Obviously misbehavior is generally rooted in conflict of interests, which can naturally occur in all groups. They are absolutely not generally a result of mania. - Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 1 week ago:
Average lifespan used to be shorter because of the amount of infant mortality.
That is completely wrong. discovermagazine.com/what-was-the-life-expectancy…
Other research reveals that the lifespan of Homo sapiens may have changed from the Middle Paleolithic to the later Upper Paleolithic, since the ratio of older to younger remains increases. The same research shows that starting about 30,000 years ago at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, the average lifespan began to push past 30 years.
Note that Lifespan is NOT the same as life expectancy:
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/lifespan
Lifespan is the maximum length of time that a person can live
So 30000 years ago 30 years was pretty much the maximum age a person could achieve. Life expectancy would probably have been 15-20.
Read my other comment, the study is probably pretty close to the truth.
lemmy.world/comment/19682894 - Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 1 week ago:
Tribal nomads of 100000 did not live to their 60’s.
AFAIK they rarely lived beyond 30.discovermagazine.com/what-was-the-life-expectancy…
Other research reveals that the lifespan of Homo sapiens may have changed from the Middle Paleolithic to the later Upper Paleolithic, since the ratio of older to younger remains increases. The same research shows that starting about 30,000 years ago at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, the average lifespan began to push past 30 years.
Note that Lifespan is not the same as life expectancy:
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/lifespan
Lifespan is the maximum length of time that a person can live
So 30000 years ago 30 years was pretty much the maximum age a person could achieve.
- Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 1 week ago:
It’s OK, we have evolved to be intelligent enough to also evolve our society and science to enable us to live far beyond what was needed as a tribal nomadic species.
I don’t like to reveal too much personal info here, but to me you are still a child.
- Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 1 week ago:
beginning of civilization
Beginning of civilization is not the natural lifespan either, even early civilization has advantages that can extend natural life.
Clearly we are already ageing at 38 years old. - Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 1 week ago:
Nobody dies “naturally” of old age at 38.
But genetically we were originally nomads, and AFAIK the nomads of a 100000 years ago, had a far shorter average lifespan than after we settled and began farming. Also people of nomadic tribes in the rain forests of South America today, often don’t live longer than that on average AFAIK.When we look at animals, it is also not uncommon that a tamed animal pet can live twice as long or more than they usually do in the wild. For humans if modern environment has similar impact compared to the harsh life as a nomadic people, the double of 38 is 76 years, and that’s pretty close to our average lifespan today.
So I certainly wouldn’t dismiss the claim outright, but the article is very thin on details on the science of how they arrived at this apart from “DNA”.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 1 week ago:
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme
That doesn’t sound very high end, I think I’ll wait for the Pro version, preferably Pro Plus.
- Comment on Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? 1 week ago:
Good.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
I think many people stopped buying it, because they use machines at home that have built in grinders.
- Comment on Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? 1 week ago:
WTF! Really?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What if it’s a very bad picture? Or compromising?
What if you set the clock to go to the doctor, and if you don’t go to the doctor you will suffer way bigger pain?