Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 hour ago:
Well no… but also yes!
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 hour ago:
Sorry, initial post was meant to be more cheeky than anything else: Basically saying AI folks like OpenAI have seriously damaged the quality of Google’s search results, and in doing so established demand for a new search option… and now they’re announcing a competitor to Google.
One foot (google) was shot to shift traffic over to the other (whatever this new shit is). Wasn’t meant to imply Google is in on it… the reddit analogy might just be muddying the waters, but the analogy was reddit as a company to search engines as a category.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 4 hours ago:
It’ll herd users to the new product. It’s like when reddit enshittified its mobile web page to move folks to its app. Both reddit; but they shot themselves in one foot to shift weight over to the other foot.
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 5 hours ago:
So all the AI enshittification of Google results was just 4D chess all along!
- Comment on Good news 😊 16 hours ago:
In their defense, that’s still better than most news.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
Naw it’s more like “we did something we knew would make you incredibly uncomfortable; but now that you’re screaming we’re worried about the neighbors hearing it and we don’t want the cops called on us, so we’ll back off until a more opportune time.”
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
Getting abusive parent vibes from the language of Sony’s post.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 4 days ago:
Overbooked. This is the airline industry we’re talking about.
- Comment on gottem 5 days ago:
I’d take that memory with a grain of salt. Part of the anesthesic effect is that you don’t remember shit. A common concern patients voice when they roll into the OR is “shouldn’t I be asleep for this? I’ve had X# surgeries before and I’ve never been awake for this part…” But they probably said the same thing on their second+ surgery: you’re always awake when you roll into the OR, you just don’t remember the few minutes leading up to going to sleep cuz of the drugs.
That said, some people do have a resistance to some part of the effect: you might have been one of them, and are remembering traces of the experience like the pain of the propofol; but where that pain occurred could have gotten blocked out, so your brain just picked a spot.
Unless they placed your IV near your crotch, which would be super, super abnormal.
But yea I wouldn’t put much trust in the accuracy of memories immediately surrounding general anesthesia. It fucks with your brain, hard.
- Comment on gottem 6 days ago:
The placebo effect is honestly pretty wild. There’s a common false understanding that placebo = scam, but if you can achieve a therapeutic effect via thinking that you’re going to achieve a therapeutic effect, then… cool!!
The opposite is also true, called the “nocebo” effect. I’ve noticed this in the OR a lot depending on our anesthesiologist, specifically when they’re administering the propofol (the IV drug that knocks you out). Unfortunately it’s an irritant, so I’ve seen a few different approaches to try to get ahead of the sensation of pain, including warnings like “This can hurt initially - that’s normal!” but I think tends to backfire, cuz you’ve just set the expectation of pain, and those patients seem to a much heightened experience of pain. This is opposed to saying things like “You might feel a warm sensation in your IV” which seem to reduce the nocebo effect.
It’d be cool to do a study on this action specifically.
- Comment on The choice is yours 1 week ago:
Idk if there have been enough case studies to draw any conclusions on the third point with a reasonable degree of certainty.
Get me clip board, I’m heading to the NICU.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 week ago:
It’s better, cuz it’s got electrolytes.
It’s what souls crave!
So like, ice X at 60 gigapascals and -120 °C?
What’s the worse that could happen?
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 week ago:
“That’s not piss.”
- Alter boy
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 week ago:
the idea of “washing”, or “being washed”, so solid water or water in solids would not count.
You could make a solid (HA!) argument for exfoliative percussive removal of debris from the kid’s head via scraping or knocking the nasty-bits free via the holy projectiles.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 week ago:
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Does AWOL mean something other than “Absent without leave”? Cuz that’s a weird way to describe a computer algorithm.
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…aight so I’m definitely not a theologist, but… according to christianity, or catholocism specifically… is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism? I’d assume it just says “water”, but there’s water in gatorade. Sure there’s also other shit in gatorade, but there’s other shit in tap water too. Even distilled water isn’t going to be 100% pure.
And if gatorade’s cool, where do they draw the line? Could you baptize a baby with honey? Or drop a steak onto the kid’s face (there’s water in those too!). Does it even have to be liquid water? Like what if you just threw some icecubes at the kid, or blasted some steam in its face??
So many questions!
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- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
Iirc FlexT9 was ducking (nope, not fixing it this time, rofl) great for the… Galaxy S2?, but then Swype bought em out and it’s been downhill ever since.
So… it’s not that the tech is bad, it’s that it’s being hamstrung somewhere.
- Comment on Bill Nye Explaining Exothermic Reactions to Science Deniers 1 week ago:
I could see myself getting hooked on a science-heavy equivalent of John Wick.
Chemist turned extremist turned serial assassin using unorthodox but scientifically sound methods.
…wait that’s just Breaking Bad isn’t it… I want more Breaking Bad.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
If I have to ever sit through that shit again, I’m stealing your technique.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
What it’s meant or actually useful for, vs how it’s used in contexts like employment are significantly mismatched.
It’s like understanding what a framing hammer is supposed to be used for and how to do so properly and safely, only to turn the news on and learn that the general population is somehow convinced that they’re for eye surgery; and thousands of ER visits later, from dumbasses who DIY’d that shit and popped their eyes, the general population has learned… not a damn thing… they’re still bashing their eyes apart with framing hammers.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah… I’ve been rejected from jobs for not popping an “ENTJ” or whichever fucking Harry Potter house their overgrown facebook quiz was supposed to sort me into. People -with authority- absolutely horoscope em.
…with that anecdote in mind, I maaaaay be a tad biased.
- Comment on Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. It’s vague enough that there’s some subjectivity at play here… in my brain, it’s broken into two categories: 1) algorithmic stuff that includes EVERY example of “AI” currently at our disposal, with “AI” being more of a marketing term than an actual description of what it is; and 2) intelligence that’s artificial, which doesn’t exist yet, but is theoretically possible and will most likely manifest as a creation of something from category 1, a point that is dubbed the “singularity” that marks the start of a snowball of self-improvement that eventually matches and surpasses what our own noggins are capable of in every way. And we kinda just hope #2 develops in a way that’s compatible with our own survival and comfort.
My money’s on climate collapse or nuclear explosions or all of the above wiping us out before we make it to #2, but I guess we’ll see.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only known a handful of psych students, but even as students they knew enough about the Myers-Briggs to recognize it as pseudo-science bullshit. Sad to hear that’s not universal.
- Comment on Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals 2 weeks ago:
We should be using to its potential, which is a deliberately vague statement cuz I have no idea what its potential is; but I’d guess there’s some overlap in what it’s capable of and what nurses and doctors do. Displacing their focus from those areas to things that more urgently require their attention is a good thing, provided we’re using algorithms for things that are actually appropriate for algorithms.
I know a lot of folks don’t trust AI, but what we’re calling “AI” today is basically just a spell-checker on steroids, so using it effectively includes knowing when to say “I know you want that word to change to ‘deer’, but I legit need it to say ‘dear’” and hitting that ignore button.
…so yea basically what you said. Human makes final call. At least for now; if we ever get actual AI (the thinky sentient kind we see in sci-fi) then we can start delegating more and more advanced interpretive tasks to it as it demonstrates its ability to not fuck them up (or at least, fuck them up less frequently than its human counterparts).
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
Basically a consolidated version of the Myers-Briggs test, which is basically astrology for middle-managers.
- Comment on Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals 2 weeks ago:
At least in the US, the healthcare system is fucked-and-a half with staffing issues alone. With boomers on the way out of the work force and into the fucking ER, we’re in trouble.
If ‘AI’ algorithms can help manage the dumpster fire, bring it on. Growing pains are expected, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t explore its potential.
- Comment on Truth and facts 2 weeks ago:
Geometrically, that all adds up.
- Comment on Tesla’s in its flop era 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got coworkers who literally think Elon is humanity’s savior. This came up today (shared a pic of a tesla w/ a bumper sticker that said “I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy…” and they IMMEDIATELY started gargling his metaphorical balls).
There’s a tiny sliver of market that represents the overlapped portion of 1) hopeless rednecks, and 2) people interested in owning an electric vehicle… that’s Tesla’s target customer. It’s gonna saturate in a hurry, but it’s also a cult-like following of cash cows eager to be milked. My money’s on Tesla’s performance steadying out and maintaining a not-great but not-bad-enough-to-tank-the-company level of financial success.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 3 weeks ago:
…I had to.
- Comment on Decades of taking it 3 weeks ago:
As We Know It
Naw, that world legit ended. The question is: for better or worse? The world we know is also ending, and poses the same question.
- Comment on Who wants to be a trillionaire? Don’t laugh. That’s exactly where America’s oligarchic policies are taking us. 3 weeks ago:
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