NABDad
@NABDad@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 6 days ago:
LLMs are interesting, and there are some very promising applications, but I’m concerned that the hype is going to damage the reputation of the technology in a way that could interfere with those things.
Regarding all other AI, there’s a lot of good that has come from AI research, and most people don’t recognize it. We have a tendency to shift our definition of “intelligence” to always exclude things that someone figures out how to get a computer to do.
Every day we use software that would have been considered AI years ago.
I’m not against AI, but I’m against the capitalist impulse to squeeze money out of anything to the detriment of all of humanity and the world.
My hope is that the LLM bubble bursts, big companies suffer terribly, the “AI” tag becomes bad marketing, and they let AI quietly return to research, where people can do some good with it.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 week ago:
What do you mean when you say AI?
Are you talking about all the different areas of research or just LLMs?
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 1 week ago:
I would point out the way drug dealers kill their customers is unintentionally via overdose or bad drugs.
Also, if you’re a parent, and you lost your only child to a drug dealer due to an overdose, that’s really all you need to want to hunt down and kill the dealer.
A parent with nothing left to lose could be about as dangerous as it gets.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 1 week ago:
I have one example of a rich person who was addicted to drugs.
He was a gifted child so his parents treated him like he knew how to raise himself. They also probably weren’t terribly interested in raising a child, so they basically abandoned him. He was cared for, but not by them.
Best example of this: I mentioned that I still remembered my mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. He remembered the maid teaching him.
Because no one would stop him, he started drinking in his early teens, and moved onto drugs soon after.
Regarding murdering the family because of money, I’d recommend making it a home invasion gone wrong. Addicted kid gets cut off from family, can’t pay drug dealer, can’t get drugs. Tells drug dealer he knows where the family keeps a lot of money. Like “won the lottery” money. Drug dealer tells someone else who convinces them to go after it. Hilarity ensues.
- Comment on When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it. 2 weeks ago:
The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
Not Noah Wyle, although I agree that picture looks like him.
- Comment on Pete Hegseth is a TERRIBLE advertisement for writing all of your speeches with AI. 2 weeks ago:
Pete Hegseth is
aTERRIBLEadvertisement for writing public speeches with AI. - Comment on If you are rich, white, male and say "Jesus" enough, you can get away with anything. 2 weeks ago:
What if you say, “JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!” a lot? Does that count?
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
The moon landing was faked, but they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct the shoot, and he insisted that they film on location.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 4 weeks ago:
For me personally, I wish Latin had been an option for me, as it’s used extensively in biology and it would have been incredibly helpful.
My wife and I studied Latin in middle school and high school.
My kids were also able to take Latin in school.
Rather than list all the benefits of learning Latin, I found this, Top 10 Reasons For Studying Latin, which says it better than I could.
I would struggle to translate anything today (although I still know that all of Gaul is divided into three parts), but I know I have benefited from an improved understanding of English grammar and vocabulary.
Fight for Latin in your schools!
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 4 weeks ago:
You can say that if you wish, but it makes you sound like you just don’t want to admit you were wrong.
There’s plenty to blame the U.S. for, but it’s important to be honest if you want to be taken seriously.
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 4 weeks ago:
That’s what I was thinking.
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 4 weeks ago:
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the term, “Western Hemisphere”, is from the writings of Sir Thomas Browne in 1646.
It doesn’t really make sense to blame its creation on the U.S, as it predates us by more than 100 years.
- Comment on What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) 4 weeks ago:
I only have 40 yrs to go - if I’m realistic
Probably far less if society breaks down to the point that libraries cease to exist.
- Comment on everyone agrees 4 weeks ago:
We have a standard poodle. He’s being trained as a service dog, but he’s not there yet.
He’s getting better, but when he first arrived, he would bark like a maniac anytime someone new entered the house.
We had a painter come in to do some work in our bathroom. He got upset when he heard Leo start barking because he had a traumatic experience with a dog.
Then he saw Leo was a poodle and he was suddenly ok.
I know Leo is all talk, but he’s still a dog. Under all that fluff, he’s basically a Doberman Pinscher.
- Comment on Thanks Alot 4 weeks ago:
She suffers from severe depression and ADHD, but I don’t think she has bipolar disorder. Her sister died due to bipolar disorder, which might be what you’re thinking of.
She is, apparently, still on Reddit occasionally. I saw a post from a few days ago in which someone was saying that she’s working on a new book (no idea if that is true or not).
- Comment on Tune a fish 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s mostly for the dad joke:
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 5 weeks ago:
CompuServe Chat USENET Facebook Reddit Lemmy
Facebook was a horrible mistake. I jumped off when I realized I didn’t want to associate with the people there.
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 5 weeks ago:
Your body adjusts to temperature changes.
When you experience the first cold day, your body panics and acts like you’re going to freeze to death. After a few days pass and you don’t freeze to death, your body realizes it overreacted and adjusts accordingly.
It’s just a Nervous Nellie.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 5 weeks ago:
Unless they knew something about rockets.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 1 month ago:
Not an issue for me. I’m 6’4". The only way I’m drowning after falling asleep in the bathtub is if my legs dissolve.
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 1 month ago:
I’m going add another anecdote to the rest. I have one of the long versions that we use for lighting candles. We’ve had it for seven years. Still works great.
- Comment on What's that word? 1 month ago:
According to Wikipedia, the term was in use in other languages before it was taken in English
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 1 month ago:
I think the sub you’re looking for is “casualconversation”
- Comment on YSK that Dark Chocolate is healthier than White Chocolate 1 month ago:
As a general rule, the darker the better.
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard that.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 month ago:
The best and brightest don’t work there anymore.
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 1 month ago:
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
It’s not a treat if I’m not interested.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
Good point.
I think that’s where your premise really breaks down because I still wouldn’t be either.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
There’s also the people who just work to survive and have nothing left over.
Unless by “world” you’re only referring to those with too much money.
- Comment on what does your "workshop" look like? 1 month ago:
It’s a hell hole.
