agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 9 hours ago:
They generate a lot less bullshit when deliberately trained on a specific dataset, and they’re only getting better with time.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 9 hours ago:
Exactly. Fewer juniors means fewer seniors in the future.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 10 hours ago:
The next quarterly report is literally the only thing in the world that matters
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 10 hours ago:
There are tasks that are necessary but tedious. These are tasks that either consume the time of experienced professionals, or are offloaded to inexperienced professionals when payroll allows.
Tedious tasks are perfect candidates for automation, especially when the result is much easier to verify than to find. This frees the experienced professional to do interesting work.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 12 hours ago:
DO NOT use a bag of holding for this, you will regret it.
- Comment on Trump invites world leaders to put money in his pocket 12 hours ago:
No thanks. I’d rather a sequence of debilitating strokes that leave him even more mentally and physically impaired. I’d prefer he lives a long life in misery and impotence.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' 12 hours ago:
The main threat is to junior professionals. AI won’t replace “actual” jobs, but it certainly has the potential to reduce them by giving one person the ability to do the work of multiple people. This is almost certain to primarily affect junior positions whose grunt-work is offloaded to AI, thus reducing the number of qualified senior professionals in the future.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 20 hours ago:
Unfinished 2x4s are actually 2in x 4in, which originally you would trim on all sides to get a nicer surface getting down to the “modern” dimensions. Nowadays, you pretty much only see pre-trimmed lumber.
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 2 days ago:
Totally. However, I think so long as you manually verify, it should really be fine. It takes ages to find a case that establishes precedence, but confirming the details of the case once you’ve found it is relatively quick.
If you skip the manual verification, yeah you deserve what you get.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 2 days ago:
Just like every “2D” object has thickness, every “3D” object has a temporal duration. Without duration, it wouldn’t exist.
So everything is at least 4D, 3D doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run 2 days ago:
Ultimately every energy source is the product of solar energy, so might as well cut out the middleman.
- Comment on No brainer 4 days ago:
You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
I forgot that was a brand of front loaders for a second, and my brain went on a whole trip trying to figure why you’d need a bobcat.
- Comment on Malicious compliance 6 days ago:
Looks more like a stray markup made while editing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I would prefer a mix: keep the Senate composed of actual legal experts, but stock the House by sortition (also expand it to equalize the ratio of representatives to constituents).
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 week ago:
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 1 week ago:
3.145183813819291837 isn’t the beginning of π, it’s just some random number that happens to also start with 3.14
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
Don’t forget leverage. Shorter limbs get more “strength” from their muscles.
- Comment on xkcd #3133: Dual Roomba 1 week ago:
I saw this at a club called The Closet
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 1 week ago:
That is a rational number
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
Kinda reminds me of when I was using dating apps, and women would ask how they knew I wasn’t a serial killer. “If I was a serial killer, it would be pretty stupid to leave a bunch of digital records of me being the last person my victim talked to, I’d get caught immediately.”
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
I want biological kids, and I’m right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I’m not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it’s not that bad and I stand firm that they’re not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.
Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what’s more important to them.
- Comment on Trump set a trap and the corporate media will make you believe youre the one falling for it. 2 weeks ago:
Wherever it comes from, you need to secure it before striking
- Comment on Trump set a trap and the corporate media will make you believe youre the one falling for it. 2 weeks ago:
A general strike without an appropriately sized general fund is a recipe for a laughably short strike.
- Comment on What is a perfect anime? 2 weeks ago:
Mine is the drill that will pierce the heavens ☝️
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I think reasonable people can disagree on this point, on whether not tipping constitutes a secondary exploitation.
No, they cannot. Disagreement here is not reasoned, it is just another example of clever people using their cleverness to justify unreasonable prior beliefs.
You can boycott a business, and write them to express that your boycott is based on their tipping policy. That would be a reasonable strategy to support the workers.
By still giving the business owners money, knowing they pay their staff sub-minimum wages based on the convention of tipping, and then not tipping, you have not communicated any disapproval to management. You have in fact directly supported the business owner exploiting their workers, and joined that exploitation for personal benefit. That’s the opposite of supporting the worker.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
The result of either choice – boycotting places that pay less than minimum wage, or not tipping at those places – doesn’t change the fact that the staff are being underpaid, which is the root exploitative practice.
Yes, but boycotting those places is justifiable. Going anyway and just not tipping is actively participating in the exploitation.
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 weeks ago:
Passion.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
The way I see it, if the place requires tips for their staff to get by, then the staff are being financially abused and I would be propping up a system of exploitation. Prioritise places that pay their staff above the minimum wage.
Second sentence is fine, feel free to boycott places that pay below minimum wage. But if you do go to an establishment that pays based on the assumption of tips, and you don’t tip, you’re just joining in the exploitation.
- Comment on Two weeks notice 2 weeks ago:
That’s kinda just an extension of the reference thing
- Comment on Two weeks notice 2 weeks ago:
Two weeks notice is a courtesy to keep things civil so you can use them as a reference. It’s not a legal requirement, the only consequence for not giving notice is that you won’t get a good reference, but if you don’t care about that then be free.
