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- Comment on We may clown on him a lot but it's genuinely quite dystopian how much power Elon Musk has. 1 day ago:
Me when I first read who the narrator was.
- Comment on hotwheels sisyphus 1 day ago:
And now I want to know the deep meaning behind all of those Chinese knockoff tee shirts that I thought were just poorly translated.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 2 weeks ago:
The company is offering affected users a 30 percent discount on a new Ecobee thermostat, valid for up to 15 thermostats.
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- Comment on Why are male social workers so different? 2 weeks ago:
He was just spit balling
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
whatever the hell ‘X’ is supposed to be
It’s the social media company he founded, obviously.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
Or, if you’re trying to make it more directly comparable to 17 million (because humans aren’t great at implicitly comparing that many zeros), that would be 56,000 millions. It’s not how we normally say it, but 17 vs 56,000 feels different than 17 million vs 56 billion.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
No no no, we need to dig down to the magma to release the pressure!
- Comment on Wise words from Master 2 weeks ago:
Enjoy it, I wish I could go back and play MGS1 for the first time again. Such a good game.
- Comment on ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it 2 weeks ago:
Which is why AI should tell end users “I don’t know” more often.
If you feel this is a simple solution, I strongly suggest you write up exactly how you do this and make yourself a billion dollars.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 3 weeks ago:
Technically, it is very much linear. It’s just it doesn’t always go the way we feel like it should.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 3 weeks ago:
The lesson heard is probably “more sequels”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
From what I understand the bonus requires shareholder approval…so the people making that choice are the same ones watching the stock tank and continuing to hold (or buy more)…
I don’t know why one would do that without thinking Elon is playing some super-advanced 5D Checkers.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 4 weeks ago:
Idk, it’s Google, so I think it’s more likely they just drop it entirely and start a new project with the same features…
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 4 weeks ago:
Thanks Gemini, I hope they take a while before enshittefying you…
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
I check on the calculator I have with me at all times. It’s $24.50
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
AI is going to destroy art the same way Photoshop, or photography, or pre-made tubes of paints, destroyed art. It’s a tool, it helps people take the idea in their head and put it in the world. And it lowers the barrier to entry, now you don’t need years of practice in drawing technique to bring your ideas to life, you just need ideas.
If AI gets to a point that it can give us creative, original, art that sparks emotion in novel ways…well we probably also made a super intelligent AI and our list of problems is much different than today.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 1 month ago:
If I purchase a TV, that I now own, and after I own it the company “updates” my TV that I now have to watch ads in order to use the TV I purchased without that condition?
At minimum it’s a breach of contract
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
Increasing profit margins…which is the thing our society puts above all else.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now 1 month ago:
Until we either solve the problem of LLMs providing false information or the problem of people being too lazy to fact check their work, this is probably the correct course of action.
- Comment on ‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update 1 month ago:
I’m not making any moral judgements one way or the other, but I have a strong feeling kids today are just going to grow up with this stuff and it will be normalized and we are going to be the weird old prudes who have a weird sense of personal identity connected to our physical appearance and voice while they’re going around looking like SpongeBob and talking like The Fonz.
- Comment on lamp 1 month ago:
Man, caterpillar heaven looks pretty rad.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s the symmetry that really makes it.
- Comment on AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead 2 months ago:
The hype around AI language models has companies scrambling to hire prompt engineers to improve their AI queries and create new products.
Who is hiring all these prompt engineers? Who is ‘scrambling’ to find people for this? The jobs I do see have basically replaced “developer” with “prompt engineer” with the same job requirements.
- Comment on How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills? 2 months ago:
Emergent behavior is pretty much anything an old model couldn’t do that a new model can. Simple reasoning, creating coherent sentences, “theory of mind”, basic math, translation, I think are a few examples.
They aren’t “amazing” in the sense that a human can’t do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.
- Comment on If only 2 months ago:
“This is my emotional support 2x8”
- Comment on HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It 2 months ago:
Do “printers” have an approval rating? Because I bet it’s low.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 2 months ago:
If you actually need the end result to be good though, you’re gonna be waiting a while.
I agree with everything you said, but it seems in the context of AI development “a while” is like, a few years.
- Comment on Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future. 2 months ago:
I don’t think he’s an incompetent moron so much as he’s made (himself) a ton of money in multiple industries by
lying to manipulate stock pricesconfidently overestimating his products and deadlines. - Comment on Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch 3 months ago:
Hey! It took years of hard work to develop the good will necessary to get into a position to take advantage of their data!
- Comment on Article suggests that 1 million ML specialists will be needed in 2027. What do you think of that? 3 months ago:
The most important line on that page:
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